Nov 19, '09
Tulsi was shocked to see herself in the mirror! She couldn’t believe what she saw!
Tired face, eyes without the usual sparkle, drooped shoulders, dark circle beginning to appear around the eyes…all tell tale signs of something not being right about her!
Even when she had her crippling back ache, Tulsi never looked this distraught!
Her friend Ravi’s words were ringing in her ears still…
“Cheer up girl! You deserve better than this!” he had said to humor her.
She had matched up to him by responding thus,
“I know. I deserve a four bedroom home, two cars, household help and a fat bank balance”.
They had laughed heartily…or were it a hearty laugh!
Tulsi was increasingly getting tired….tired of…her routine, her drudgery, her existence revolving around a set of problems!
“How am I responsible for this? Can I ever get out of this rut?” were questions not exactly bothering…but nagging her!
She had married the guy she had fallen in love with. He was a great guy, at least to begin with. Smart, articulate and above all creative, he was a go getter, and initially they were going places!
Of late, hubby-dear is mired in his own problems at work. Having been passed over for a promotion recently he was nurturing a great grouse, justifiably so!
Yet, Tulsi felt it was not wise on his part to show it on his colleagues! He enjoyed working in to late nights, and tended to go to office around afternoon. Most of the ‘politically important’ meetings happened during the early part of the day!
Invariably when he reached office, such meetings would be over and done with and the boss would be seething with anger. On his part hubby-dear would complain about work being dumped on him and him not being considered for promotion!
“The writing is clear on the wall” Tulsi told herself!
Her attempts to make him see the reality were getting nowhere! In fact, such attempts were adding to his resentment! She was beginning to feel as if he was ignoring her good advice.
She was angry….with him and with herself….and about the general condition they were in!
“God, why should this happen to me?” was her silent anguish!
The conversation with Ravi was refreshing. Ravi was not telling anything new. She knew everything he was telling her! Yet…the hopelessness of the situation was tiring her!
The phone beeped…
A text message from Ravi:
“When things go wrong as they sometimes will:
When the road you are trudging is all uphill;
When the funds are low and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest you must but don’t quit.
Success is a failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the cloud of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar
So, stick to the fight when you are hardest hit
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit!”
A longish message in deed.....
Tulsi held her head high and told herself, “I ain’t quitting! I am a fighter. I will fight until I succeed!”
PS:
Tulsi is real…and she is amongst us…inside us ….and she is us!
I wish this Tulsi, whom I love, the most, success in her endeavor!
I know she would succeed…and I would wait for that day when she shares her success story!
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