Epilogue

Whatever happens to those writers who narrate an entire life story in a sentence or two. It's quick and done with. Like, they met in college, married soon after. She bore him his first child, a brilliant little fair girl. A decade into, differences emerged and they separated. Moving on, he met his second wife at forty two. They have a son, who is neither as brilliant or fair like his half sister. But he is, nevertheless. Or, let's say: He was the unwanted third child, conceived by mistake, half heartedly. His father wanted him, mother didn't. So, he grew up with half the love, half the heart, tagged along with his older sister and brother, until, they would no longer have it. So he branched out, broke bad and became an alcoholic. Or, let's say: Ever since, she was seventeen, she wanted a child, a cute plaything of her own. But she could find no man that was a keeper. She studied and worked. Meandered through life, far from effortlessly. Swinging between depression and self doctored therapy until she met a keeper. But then it was too late to have a child, her fluids had stopped flowing. A hostile uterus, or something. Like that. So easy. So easy. So swift. Thanks to those writers, you can live the lives of their characters with such ease. 

But your own life! It is so excruciatingly slow, painful. Excruciatingly slow and painful. And fucked up. There's no way you could just cut short some of the agony. Some of this misery. Some of it. You've to roll on it, lick it, swallow it. There's no way out. Only if the writer of my fate would learn something from these on the fast track. And get done with it. 

5 comments:

loop said...

Although quite sad, don't you think, having decades of one's life summed up in a few paltry, underwhelming words?

PS said...

Brilliantly written!

Hopelessly Flawed said...
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Hopelessly Flawed said...

There are Gods betting on how much and how long we can endure this misery, please go on.

I can craft and code that I am in that dark place again, but I won't.

I read you when I am blue. You are my comfort food for the mind.I do not know if its a compliment, I don't think you would care anyway.

Bottom line, thank you for writing.

wildflower said...

A- I couldn't be entirely un-bothered by that though. And thank you for reading.