Sandhya!
I read somewhere that this is your first foray into writing fiction.. Is that true? I marvel at your writing skills. Your prose has poetry within - weaving information with emotion - setting the right tone for your characters to breathe, move and transform! What an incredible writer you are - providing just the right amount of description of the setting, to pique just enough curiosity to continue.. Here is why you are an amazing storyteller - Anticipation makes me read fast, but I have my one eye on the cursor that I see moving down.. I breathe a sigh when I see that I have another half of the chapter remaining,.. but when I see it move further down.. I know that I am coming to the end of the chapter.. trepidation that I have to wait another week to read ... wanting to stay with the story.. but realizing that this chapter has come to an end. :)
Khushi's success is no surprise.. she is the eternal sunshine.. isn't she? Life's tough soldier who isn't afraid to battle those difficult routes..She must, after all, live up to her name!! Nonetheless, I am happy for her..
But then, she has those wounds and scars from her battles that haven't healed. She has frozen those wounds in that cryogenic jar of distance, self imposed exile, for the last five years. So, when she goes back to her life - her friends and Arnav - those wounds will thaw; they will surface and breathe renewed raw pain for her...
But she will heal.. Here I see both of them, Arnav and Khushi - being in the same boat - harboring wounds that they overlooked, ignored or kept in abeyance. I realize that I am one of the few here, but my heart weeps for Arnav - for his misguided sense of responsibility and guilt, for Khushi - being the collateral damage here..
But then, isn't that why this story is gripping? Isn't that also what life often throws at us?
This was a 'feel good' chapter with a fitting title and quotation. Thank you for your sensitivity in storytelling! What a blessing.. :)
--Mirabell
ps: oops I didn't realize that this was going to be such a long post.. apologies
Edited by Mirabell - 11 years ago