Life is not a bed of roses...

(It was about 4:55 P.M...Lekha is ready with her luggage and busy with her friends,family,relatives,etc who came to give her a warm send-off....
Suddenly Lekha noticed a person coming her way with a wonderful boquet of colourful roses...)

Arun: Good Evening, Lekha!
Lekha: Very Good Evening!!
Arun: Did you pack everything?
Lekha: Yes. I am all set to go.
Arun: Can i talk to you for five minutes?
Lekha: Sure. There are thirty minutes for the train's departure...You can carry on...
Arun: Thanks..
Arun: Please can you tell me why you are leaving for abroad?
Arun: Lekha please tell me...Your silence is making me mad...
Arun: Why don't you speak out?
Arun: Please tell...Please...

(Lekha with tears in her eyes...and silence on her lips...)

Lekha: Arun...I already told you my life-style or thought process doesn't suite you and your family...
Lekha: I want freedom...
Arun: Freedom? What do you mean by that?
Lekha: Freedom... i have to tell you many things... I want to persure my research at Harvard...I want freedom of thought...speech...belief... Can you wait for me for four years? Can i expect that freedom from you?
Lekha: What do you say?
Lekha: Come on speak out....
Lekha: I know you can never give me an answer for these questions...
Lekha: I also know that you have to get married in the next one or two years...
Lekha: And i know that your family can never support me if at all i want to marry you...I know your limitations and your family position...I know women in your family never went out either for job or for further education after marriage...
Arun: I think i may convince my family...

(Lekha...suddenly laughs loudly....)

Lekha: Nice...so you are not sure...you may convince...This will never happen...I know because i am sure about that...See...First of all our castes are different...the way we were brought up are different...the life-style is different....
Arun: Please give me a chance....
Lekha: I have given you enough chances...i agreed to all the conditions that were put up by your parents...i had given up my music,singing,painting,games,higher education, my independence,individuality...list goes on......
Arun: I think you agreed for that, right?
Lekha: Yeah. I agreed...But i never thought that you people will drop the match after everything is ready...I never questioned you about that...I don't want to spoil my life by keeping in your hands...Let me myself spoil...Atleast i will have some satisfaction, that i am the master of my life or fate...
Arun: Please forget that...Past is past!!!!
Lekha: Yes. I agree with you...Past is past...So you also forget that....

(It's already 5:25 P.M. and the train is about to start....)

Lekha: I am leaving forever....Good - Bye!!!
Arun: I will wait for you...
Lekha: Please don't do that...I never will never come back into your life...
Lekha: You have taught me a good lesson...I still appeciate you.If you would n't have done in this way...I may not get a chance to leave for abroad...Thank you very much...
Arun: Lekha....Please don't go... I am sorry for what had happened.... I will see to it that everything comes in your own way.... Please don't go....
Lekha: I am really very sorry...
Lekha: Bye... Bye to my home-town...motherland...friends...family...well-wishers...

(After the train started...she began to think about the things a year back...and she realized that only when we miss someone we'll know their value in a better way...
Tears rolled down her cheecks...
She felt her life is filled with darkness...
She cried for the rest of her journey...
But somewhere still she has a hope...she can regain her lost strength...
in the means of someother person...it may take some days...months...years...or she may not find for the rest of her life...)