Welcome to the ‘100 Stories of She – Chapter 1’ where Preeti takes you into the homes and minds of people weathering a pandemic while they rediscover themselves in lockdown.
How she has been craving for her destroyer, how she wanted to be dismantled and reassembled into something better and sturdier.
Alas, the destroyer had already made an exit.
At the end of an exhausting day while stretching on her recliner she was wondering how many people look at her as ‘chaos’ as opposed to ‘work in progress.’
The change in his feelings were clearly reflecting in his behaviour towards her. She knew she was being replaced. But she didn’t know how to explain to anyone what it feels like when a...
By breaking up with her he took away her hope to be admired and desired by any other man and that’s what made it excruciatingly painful.
She was mourning for her dreams.
It was less than two months since they drifted apart.
There was so much to talk, to share, to complain, to cry.
But, she opted for silence and that seemed to have became her new...
Every time she said something, it had a repercussion.
When this became a rule, it turned her into an introvert - an introvert, who was soon turning into a wall.
She had started getting withdrawal symptoms after parting her ways with him.
She knew quite well that heartbreaks are intensely painful.
But, till now she didn’t know that checking out of an infatuation can also feel...
Every time he ignored her and turned his face away, it ripped her heart.
Every time he pretended that nothing had happened between them, it filled her eyes with tears.
Every time he changed his route...
She doesn’t leave a trace of any pain or suffering through the day,
but the stillness of the late-night breaks her brave facade and makes her pillow a little damp.
Around this time, when every...
Like most people around her, her right and wrongs too were largely built by the society.
Morals that were compartmentalised into black and white till her own experience made her break free from them.
She...
