T2 | ArHi FF Second Chances | Link to Thread-Three, Pg 140 - Page 65

It was such an emotional update!! After each update the emotional quotient seems to be rising or say raising, either way it is becoming too much of a heart ache. Hope all of them find happiness in the form they are looking for.

How would it feel if you just won a big prize but somehow have a hard time getting on the stage to pick it up😃. Being appreciated by the likes of Mira is easily one of the ultimate prize of my aspirations. And for all the blabbering I do, I truly am at a loss of words for once on where to even start my appreciation.

Putting your thoughts out there is sometimes more like an emotional striptease😊. It is like this "falling from the heights" dream where you keep waking up sometimes, keep hitting the ground sometimes but today, with all the appreciation around, it feels like I am actually flying through the fall and to be precise, I think I am actually soaring😃

Many personal stories are an inspiration but mine is a purely an inspired one. Being a silent reader at the beginning suited me just fine until it was so hard not to be touched and moved by so many stories and reader comments out there. It is a privilege to be in readerhood company of the likes of Ruchi (@Arshi67), Kavi (@canapoem), Jay (@jduke), @Raila1014, @Anu567, @rulama (I am sure there are many more) and being fed and being inspired by the writerhood company of the likes of Jigs, Jenny, Deepthi, Choti, Mira, Sandhya (I am sure my shaky nerves always makes me forget many others). I still consider myself a fresher to the IF world and looking forward to graduation which is way long away from now😊.

Now that I have pinched myself to reality, let me get to this chapter. From opening to the end, this one easily is for the classics. This one is a goody bag that you can pick from blindly and end up with a gem no matter what. I am highlighting some of my favorites for my own sanity of doing some amount of justice with my comments.

minutiae and BIG PICTURE:
You are one writer whose minutiae never loses the sight of the big picture. But, reading the same in your words, I am sure would have been a pause moment on any brain to reevaluate the minutiae's and the big picture of its own life.

Extending the words a bit more, your minutiae on ASD and the big picture of how it's all about simple "differences" and how it's just about what "can be" rather than what "cannot" was absolutely spot on. I will gladly admit that it was truly a lesson for me too.

Lifes's Dictums:
Yes, who would not want to know what it is, if ever there was one? To borrow my own comment on another story, having a glass, seeing it half full, seeing it half empty, breaking the glass, seeing it full, seeing it empty, pouring into it, and drinking from it, always comes down to your own dictum.

Glasses, mirrors and sometimes even our eyes can make objects seem closer or farther but it is always our mind that controls us in seeing it as it is, or seeing it as we want it to. For me, Khushi's forced perception is leading her to her optical illusion and in that condition, no amount of new horizons or new landscapes would help. What she needs actually is a new set of eyes😊.

Conventional friend and unconventional relationships:
Talking about a new set of eyes, who can be better than Lavu. "I cannot believe that our hearts are that limited in their ability to love again" - adding to that would be sacrilegious but not appreciating that would be even bigger crime. Reading through that section made me realize that some tears are contagious and being a mom of two kids, for the first time, I am happy about something contagious.

Maya/Arnav - "nothing about their relationship was conventional" - If unconventional is mysterious then I guess that mystery is in our eyes. Often times, in our eager desire to name things first, we often forget the unique value of seeing things first. You choice of picking a relation like this, and your portrayal is just remarkable in so many ways. I am sure even the most conventional critics about these things would have a hard time not changing their views looking at the core of what they have for each other.


Lastly, with all the adrenaline now, I feel like I can write chapters about this chapter 😉 and want to read more of this already. But, I know that great things should be savored in smaller quantities 😊. So, I will gladly and eagerly wait for the next turn and please do note Mira, your early surprises are always appreciated and always makes us happy.

Wow! You are simply brilliant and I can't get enough of your words. It was an early update and a long one but I still crave for more :) it's 8:30 in the night and I'm yet to make dinner. I just told my husband that I'm reading something really important that can't wait. Poor guy is waiting patiently:). Ok got to go and thank you so much and love you loads :)

May I say that I am just as disappointed as Kushi and Meera that ASR was not at the other side of the door? But a little delay, a little separation will make the heart grow fonder, yeah? I sure think that was Kushi pining away because of his absence. Glad she realized that she may have pushed him away with her lack of reciprocity to his advances. Now she is in the city of widows telling herself she does not deserve a second chance at happiness because that is the way of life for widows. Well I am glad Lavanya called her from across the oceans and played the devil's advocate making her second guess herself. I simply love their conversation. Lavanya is my kinda girl and Kushi is lucky to have her in her life. Her advice is golden and she has kushi's back. Yes Lavu, Arnav Singh Raizada is one hot dish that your friend is simply tying too hard to stay away from. Well, when one refrain oneself from something delicious for too long, one ends up binging on it. So let's hope that Kushi's binge is about to come.

wonderful update...it was amazing to read about their past...continue soon

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