It was a dark night covered with a cape of blacknesss, and everything in life was at an edge of devastating ending. Every aspect was shattered into pieces.
After facing harsh rejection in love life and professional career, today Damini encountered the betrayal in family relationships too. As the days were passing everything was falling apart. Being tired of the loneliness, she decided to indulge herself and joined a NGO for Orphans, where she used to stay whole day and till the night all children are asleep. Some days passed, she started feeling a strong connect with those children and children also loved her. Gradually everything was getting aligned.
After one such long day, tired from all activities, she wrapped her stuffs and went to the bus stop. It was pretty late and everything was closed down. There were only two people waiting for the bus, she herself and an old man with a slanging bag on his shoulder. After a while when she was busy scrolling the photos of the children in her smartphone, a very gentle voice came across her ears, asking for the timing of the bus.
A very beautiful lady with sharp whiteness of the shoulder length hairs reflecting the years of experience the life gave to her, spectacle with a modern square frame, seemed like a writer. Dressed with a denim Jacket and jeans. It won't be inappropriate to say that she may be of forty five plus age, but the glow on her face and the confidence in her eyes was similar to what a young lady has in her twenties.
For few moments Damini got lost in her thoughts wondering about the lady. After having no response from Damini, the lady excused Damini and again asked the same question. This time Damini answered her question by checking the bus schedule. The lady thanked Damini and stood beside. After few minutes, to break the silence between them Damini put her phone back in the purse and asked the lady about her work. "I work for an NGO" the lady replied with a sweet smile. Her reply got Damini excited as she was doing the same.
The talk went well and after few sentences, they both have created a good bond. Damini got very much comfortable and she asked the lady about her journey of life till date. The lady said that she had faced so many ups and downs. But one day her innerself asked her to support those people who aren't having anykind of support when the lady herself was at the stage of a breakthrough. Thus she has been living many years alone till now. Damini got amazed with her story, as she can totally relate with the lady's story.
After listening to her story she asked one question to the lady, " Didn't you feared loneliness? " The lady got a big smile on her face and she replied, " I was never alone, my innerself was with me always. I surely feared a lot about loneliness at the beginning but then I realised that being alone doesn't mean we are separated from the world but it means we got united with ourselves."
Her words got recorded in damini's mind like a film. She started realising that she also no more fears the loneliness. The lady had some aura, she got Damini influenced.
By the time, the bus was there at the stop as per its schedule and after helping the old man to get inside the bus, Damini also boarded the bus. But after a while she realised that she hasn't yet asked the name of that lady meanwhile she finds out that the lady did not board the bus. She immediately peeked out from the window to see the lady. And for her surprise, there was nobody at the bus stop. Damini got goose bumps.
The lady was none other than Damini's inner self. She was the exact replica of what Damini subconsciously wanted herself to be.
The talk with that stranger proved to be an awakening for Damini. She was not the same person from the next day.
Moral:
"Nobody in this world is a stranger, but everybody is "strange".
Thus let the stranger within you, talk to you and listen to its voice, it has the power to change your whole perspective about your own self."
