One Shot: Miles To Go--Anika's Journey (Completed-3rd Feb) - Page 4

Originally posted by: napstermonster

Yes! To answer your question--where she's going, she cant take him along!😉

Originally posted by: napstermonster

This is one of the best short story I have ever read..! I am a fan of your narration. This piece was fantastic..!

I wonder why this was sad...but in my view this was REAL..!

I have takes on this story..! And guess what both are too optimistic..!⭐️

Plz Bear With My View..

Take 1:

Anika had never fully unpacked,

She had never left being her own-self totally...!

Anika bundled all the older things into the duffel bag now.

Whatever happened happened..!

But poor Chameli now came out of the newspaper she had been wrapped in, from inside the duffle bag. And she felt kind of tight and shabby looking to Anika, so much so that Anika almost reached again for those Guiseppe Zanotti, gold, leafy beauties Janvi Aunty had gifted her, six months ago. But no. She would have to be sensible. Anika wiped her tears, talked sternly to herself.

This is so good.

Her old chappals and her new ones are so symbolic to her ..
Her old-self and her newside.

"The chameli"-She knows how to be broken and yet be back again,just go with the flow.

"The Zanotti"-The new her, which was the more polished version under Shivaay's influence, who experienced a whole new family who was different then the old Anika, who was much more sensible and composed.

So Chameli, it was. Chameli, it had to be. Anika put on her old friend.

⭐️

The new clothes were neatly packed into boxes, ready for donation.

Giving away the new to be back to old.!

She didn't know if she owed the bank money, or if she had thousands of rupees

Symbolizing, she dint care to the give and take with the world..!

He would understand that she was giving him her biggest duty.

Yes. Because now it is time for herself..! She Deserves It..!

Her responsibilities were all taken care of.

She isn't running away, she is breaking free.. after setting it all right..!

Anika breathed a sigh of relief. She could go. They would be okay. All of them.

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Dressed in her jeans and her favorite daffodil top, she packed her jhola last, and rapidly did a mental check of its contents.

Her six months would be up.

She is going to have a new life, being HER..!

She giggled softly, and the three diamonds on her chain winked back at her.

This line was so cute..!

Everything was done. Everything was in its place. All signs of her removed. Pristine, like she had never even been here.

Through the only way left to her. The only way, where he would have to let her go. Anika picked up her jhola, squared her shoulders, and walked out of their bedroom. As she strode out of the Mansion, the moonlight glinted over her wild hair, haloing her in a nimbus of blue. Just a few more miles to go, now. Just a few more miles.

This was beautiful.

I believe every story has certain parts which differ when the wirter writes and the reader reads...same thing ..same words..but different interpretation...( which is the best part about literature)

But in here, the end...I feel was left to the reader, it made it all the more beautiful..!

The Jhola...filled with her experiences she carries...the necessary ones ...yes she is going to have a new life where she is going to be just Herself Love Just Herself..Until her final destination she reaches..!

She is heading for a new life, not a new chapter but a new story from the beginning, leaving behind the Old.

I believe, when one reaches melting/breaking point, he/she has 2 options,

To start from the beginning all over...

Or

To finish the story once for and stop there ...die with the story..!

But my dear Anika is strong, she has chosen a all new Life..!

Yes that's my view of the story..!
(I agree I overlooked a few impressively indicative lines, but I m like that)

Well, reading this ...this song came to my mind...

Yahan se kahan jaaun
Kahan main chhup jaun
Ye aadha sa dil
Main kaise lagaun

Hoon khud se judaa main
Hoon khud se alahada
Ye aadha sa dil
Main kaise basaaun

O roothe dil, roothe dil, roothe dil
O jhoothe dil, jhoothe dil, jhoothe dil
O toote dil, toote dil, toote dil
Hai kya teri mushkil
O Just Go To Hell Dil..!

Hai meri galti
Ya khud ki khata tu
Sharminda dil bas itna bata tu

Ke ab kya paana
Ke ab kya khona
Sharminda dil bohat hua rona

Dardon ki aadat si lag gayi hai
Aansu bhi meri hansi udaaye

Roothe dil, roothe dil, roothe dil
O jhoothe dil, jhoothe dil, jhoothe dil
Toote dil, dil, toote dil
Hai kya teri mushkil
O just go to hell dil

What Anika did was selfless, self-consuming Love..!
She couldn't help it..!

But she can't come over the fact that she gave the Love that she was to give to herself to someone else..!

Now that realisation has struck her, now that she can't reverse what has been..

She Raises Her head High and chooses herself over anything..!
Yes, she tells herself there is no point crying, no point fearing...there is nothing to loose nothing to gain..!
So get up and move on, stop being at this one stagnant self, you haven't seen even 1%of this world, It's a beautiful World out There...Be the real you and just Go where your steps take you.
A New Life, A new Journey Awaits You.

"Love for someone else.." is a beautiful illusion.

"Love For Self" is the selfish Truth.!

Y does one love..? To complete ONESELF..? Isn't that love for your ownself..!

Y does our life become miserable when someone we say we love goes away..?

Cause we love that person? I think because we hate our life without that person..isn't that being selfish..!

Anyway that my View about Love..!
(Please Don't Take Me Wrong!)

Jumping Back to Fiction..

So yes that was the most beautiful part ...about this story at least from my eyes..!
I saw an Anika who was heading for a new story getting back to her Real-self..!

Beyond Beautiful..!

Edit:

These woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go, before I sleep
And miles to go, before I sleep

I love Rober Frost Poems.
Two Roads Diverged Is My Fav.!

Even the Above line says Miles to go before I sleep..!⭐️

I wonder y ..people failed to notice that...⭐️

Originally posted by: napstermonster

I HATE this stupid site. I wrote a three paragraph response I was excited to share with you because ..obviously, I love you, and it deleted it when I went to post. So, summing up:
Love you.
Comment you made is 100% my thought process, and if they executed that at all it would make for mind blowing TV.
NKK and Shivaay have a rishta that is much more of a soul connection than anything Shhivika have. And I do NOT see how they'll write him out.
Random observation: do you think Shivaay will ever, really, love her?
Thanks, sweetheart!