Great post Red...👏
Brilliant🤗
I do not need to add much, you have already described the "mask" to perfection.
I will just take one line from yours post...
TIME WAITS FOR NONE..
Yes, Sumo's realization was almost as if time had turned his(or her?) mocking, satirical eye on her. You were too late, Sumo.. thats what it was...
But I believe
THERE'S TIME FOR EVERYTHING
We are not the masters of time or space yet these two coordinates has its way to frame our lives, to pan out our lives in different axes which we have no knowledge about or control.
And, yesterday this feeling was there in plenty... (btw, our very funny philosopher JJKKL had once made me aware of timing😆)
When she was reading the letter... and she was having that imaginary dialogue with young Shravan... there's "a time for everything" was almost becoming a character. She, the adult, mature Sumo was reading it... had it been young Sumo... she would have brushed it off and in time, young Shravan would have torn that letter?
Was it not great that she read it when she could understand it?
There's time for everything😆😉
She understood his pain or rather what she had lost. But, I read it as what she had gained. She had gained the lifelong friendship (if at this moment you wont want to call it love) of a guy like Shravan. She has learnt the value of time and relationships.
And am I the only one who was glad that Chachi entered the room at that point?
There's time for everything😉😆😃
If Sumo would have been able to divulge that I love you now... Shravan wouldnt have understood it. He would have looked upon it as a ploy to stop him (which would have been painful but watchable) but, what if he had come to know that she had read the letter and then realized her folly?
I can tell you for all the penny's worth he would have thrown her out of the house, then and there. He would have moved on from every reminiscence of hers. As you yourself said he treasures and values Sumo more than Suman, it would have been really difficult for him to experience that Sumo, his Sumo did not fight, did not strive but yielded to his meaning (Ah! well it is supposed to imitate Tennyson's famous line). That too one which was penned 10 years ago.
I wouldnt have been happy and i guess neither would have been Shravan. So the bottomline is
There's time for everything.😉😆
Time will again repeat, his mother shall return and then it would be Shravan's call to write another letter or dismiss this letter for ever to the point of no return.
AND MOVE ON.
Superlative post, Red.
Mindblowing👏
Edited by indranigupta - 9 years ago