#419 Revisiting year 2020

Revisiting the year 2020

Hello Everyone,

Hope you all are doing well. You may be engaged in the process of bidding adieu to the year which is going to slip out of our hands in the next 3-4 hours.  It has been a customary practice for me to reflect on all the moments which I lived in the year and express my gratitude to it before it fades away. So, through this post, I feel so excited to walk down my memory lane.

 

This year made me believe in the power of the Law of attraction and manifestation of intentions. The first month of the year promised me to establish a lifetime relationship with someone I had come across then. There was a family reunion to celebrate our engagement. Then followed Valentine’s week which had always been an ordinary week for me except this time, it had a meaning. There was a joyous phase of preparation for the D-day of my life. I trusted my intuition to invite someone I had come across a few months ago, in my life. I let myself go with the flow of the process that the Universe had designed for me and finally the D-day arrived for us to depart from the home I had been a part of and to take responsibilities of the family I was very warmly accepted as.

 

Then it was the conspiracy of Universe to let me quarantine with my partner to know him better. I learned to cook and be more responsible for dispatching my duties of day-to-day life. The phase of lockdown was never easy but it had definitely provided me enough time to be with my permanent roommate. During this phase, I tried to create beautiful memories to cherish for the rest of my life. The phase of lockdown had definitely slowed down this fast-paced life and enabled all of us including the nature to bloom in our own way, away from the unknown rat-race we had been into. I started following the activities that provided me internal happiness. It included singing, painting, writing, reading, learning different programming languages, revisiting my bucket list and striking off a few points from that, and developing some healthy habits. I completed watching all movies from my movie list which had been pending since time immemorial. I participated in some of the virtual competitions and garnered appreciation for my performance.  I was successful in getting an international test score.

 

I realized how important it is to live in the present moment as the future is uncertain and it is promised to none. The importance of health cannot be ignored; I realized it until I fell sick twice and the fear of getting infected COVID started haunting me. The reunion with family after a long period was literally emotional. I am so grateful to God for letting me meet one of my dear friends.

 

The most important thing to feel grateful for during pandemic days is that I am healthy and safe and so are my family and friends. I wish that this trying and challenging the phase will pass off soon when we all will be getting back to the normal state of life when we will be able to breathe in fresh air devoid of this deadly virus.

No doubt, this New Year’s Eve is different from all other years and all of us are locked up in our rooms, practicing social isolation, many of us are away from our family and friends but amidst all difficulties, let us hope for a bright future which is about to embrace our lives.

So, wishing you all a very happy new year! May this year 2021, fill your life with abundance in all spheres.

 

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Swati Sarangi

31.12.2020  

 

 

#418 Book Review:The infinite Road

 

The Infinite Road

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Author: Shefali Arora

Genre: Fiction

Format: Ebook

Number of pages: 147

Star: 4.8/5 (Self)

Published by: Locksley Hall Publishing

 

Review: This novel revolves around the central character, Alunkrita, who works in the corporate sector of  IT. She discovers a disabled and abandoned child, Anokhi (which she names her later), and brings her to her home to take care of her. Slowly and steadily Anokhi becomes the motivation of her life and her mundane corporate life does not seem to be dominating now. When she returned from her office, Anokhi’s description of her day at school and her mesmerizing skills of art would always enchant Alunkrita. Alunkrita’s life consists of Sowmya, her childhood best friend who invites her to be her partner in her business venture with Parth, who was her lover from her school days. Alunkrita was in a relationship with Parth and because of the career priorities of pre-University days of preparation, their relationship broke up on a bitter tone and Alunkrita has still not forgiven Parth for that incident.  It was from that incident, Alunkrita has never fallen in love until she meets the neighbor, Siddharth who located from Dehradun to her neighbor’s house which remained empty for many months. Alunkrita’s attraction towards Siddharth grew more over the fact that he bonded so well with Anokhi.

One day, Alunkrita’s mother arrives at her home surprisingly and finds Anokhi to be there. There’s an unpleasant discussion about Anokhi between the two. Anokhi overhears their discussion and Alunkrita’s plan to send her to a boarding school in the future. The fact of going away from Alunkrita saddens Anokhi.

Alunkrita plans a surprise birthday plan for Anokhi where she has also invited an orthopaediatrician couple who will be doing surgery on Anokhi’s feet so as to remove her disability. On her birthday, Anokhi goes missing. After a lot of efforts of Alunkrita, Siddharth , Sowmya and Parth, it’s Parth who finally finds Anokhi and takes her to her office the next day after finishing off all formality.   

All misunderstandings between Alunkrita and Parth starts to fade away after Anokhi’s discovery and Alunkrita decides to give love a second chance after Parth’s honest confession of feelings towards her. Both of them get engaged and plan to marry in the next two months. Parth gifts a well-designed office room to Alunkrita to begin the start-up journey that she has always wished to.

 

Alunkrita gives a nod to Siddharth’s wish to adopt Anokhi and take her to his home at Dehradun. Siddharth, a widower, who has lost his wife and daughter, in a car accident, feels that Anokhi would alleviate the emptiness of his daughter, Diya in his life. With an understanding partner, Parth by her side, Alunkrita’s journey of the infinite road of life now seems less challenging.

My Review:

First of all, I would like to thank my dear blogger friend, Shefali for gifting me her book as a Christmas gift and this is a really great book to end the year with! It’s really great to connect with one of the dear blogger friends of google+ days and witness her pursuing her passion along with her profession.

I always prefer a happy ending in fiction and I am glad the story has a happy ending to it. I like the way the characters have been introduced in the plot and connected to the existing characters. The style of describing different events and expressing different emotions is simply superb. The narrating style is so interesting and engaging that I finished the book within three sitting and I felt like I was one of those neighbors of Alunkrita who witnessed everything happening in her life and neighborhood. I was so engrossed in the plot that I left everything aside to finish off this book. Believe me, it was a very engaging read! With this novel, I'm successful in completing the 2020 Reading Challenge of Goodreads

I would definitely recommend you to read it. I’m sure about the fact that when you get hold of this novel, you’ll simply lose track of the time until you reach the last page of it which exactly happened in my case.

I wish the budding Author and my friend great success in all her future endeavors.

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Swati Sarangi

30.12.2020

#417 Certificate of Tarang Digital Singing Competition

 

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#416 Dreams into reality

 Dreams into reality

It’s a story of a girl, Richa who enjoys being in her world of fantasy; where she has all rights to do anything, where there’s hardly any difference between imagination and reality, where there’s no time delay between her wishes and their manifestations.

 

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Richa is someone who believes in happy endings. In spite of keeping optimistic views about life and her future, she had to go through several incidences of heartbreaks or breakups. Perhaps she was not so lucky in love or her prince charming was yet to arrive in her life.  Life’s unpredictable, there’s no one who has been successful enough to decipher the equations of life. So was Richa. When she attained marriageable age, her parents set out on a path of groom hunting. After meeting a few Rishtas or proposals, her marriage got fixed with Rohan.

 

It was an arranged marriage everything happened so hurriedly from engagement to performing rituals in Mandap; they barely had any time to know each other. Like every other girl, she had a lot of rosy dreams about her marriage and partner which she decided to keep aside for daydreaming in the future. She was wondering if Rohan would be her prince charming or it would be ever possible for her to express her dreams and world of fantasy to him.

 

Just few days after their marriage, the news of the breakdown of Corona spread like a forest fire. Everyone was unprepared for this uncertain phase which had never happened before. This pandemic was life-threatening and scary. She had made a lot of plans for trips which couples go after their marriage; so-called-honeymoon-trips. She made a secret list of her attires, poses that she would make while posing for a couple pic; kind of pre-wedding pics which she had always wanted to treasure for her lifetime and which will be framed to adorn the walls of her house. She searched for few destinations from the internet along with options for hotels to reside in. Why would she need a tourist guide when she was so passionate to research and make all plans?     

 

There goes a saying, “Man proposes, God, disposes”. Corona was testing everyone’s patience by spoiling all plans. Richa was no exception in this regard. How can she ever imagine her plans to materialize in reality when social distancing became the new norm? She surrendered her wishes to this unexpected phase.

 

 Fast forward to a few months;

 

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The sound of the alarm clock on the table, lying adjacent to the bed started to ring. In an attempt to turn off, Rohan’s hand accidentally slid a diary from the table. It fell down from the table with a loud bang sound. As soon as he opened the diary to see what it was about, the following page came to his notice which read as below;

 

 

XX.XX.XXXX

4^th Lane, 3rd Street

Near Park Avenue

London, UK

 

Dear Diary,

 

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Thanks for everything. Thanks for the beautiful plan and unexpected surprises.  I can never be happier than today.

 

You know very well that I have been eagerly waiting for the trip; so-called-honeymoon-trip, because of Corona, we could never plan it. I am so glad to write that it happened today  I felt as if I was dreaming, I pinched me from time to time to be confirmed about the fact that I was neither sleeping nor it was a dream.

 

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We went on this beautiful trip to celebrate our first Anniversary. It felt magical and heavenly. I wore a beautiful gown. We were on a beach, posed for a lot of couple pics. Amidst the waves, soothing breeze, and scenery, I had forgotten the fact that I was married, I felt like a bachelorette enjoying with her best friend. We took a lot of couple pics on the beach, those silhouette pics are my favorite now which I am planning to frame very soon, I thanked that photographer for capturing precious moments of togetherness.

 

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            After the photography session was done, he blindfolded and dragged me to a place where he made me sit on a chair; I was excited and nervous at the same time, not quite sure about what was happening. After a few minutes, perhaps 15 or 20 minutes, he removed the scarf from my eyes, by that time, it was getting a little dark. I saw a bouquet of roses with a card in front of a table near me and a very well decorated cake with ‘1’ written over it saying "Our First Anniversary ”. I was so happy to see that. I started to pick that beautiful card kept over the table and started reading it. In between, I had lost my notice, he had already knelt down with a ring in his hand to propose to me, it felt like a scene from a Bollywood movie and I blushed like a girl being caught staring at her crush. 

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He slid the ring into my finger and tears of happiness rolled down my cheek. I don’t know what made me so emotional at that time. I was still in a state of awe, not being able to process everything happening right in front of my eyes.

 

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          The ambiance was filled with floating candles on the containers having water and these containers were placed over the sand. There was soft romantic music to suit the moment and environment. The tent above glittered with Diwali lights and was decorated with our pics. I loved every bit of the decoration. I was literally in a fairyland, just the way I had always imagined.

 

We ate the delicious cake together and blew sky lantern which soon disappeared in the vastness of the night sky. We were celebrating everything that day, our Diwali, Anniversary and my dream proposal.

 

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That day I realized that I was quite quick about judging my partner just within few months of togetherness. To know about someone, his dreams, wishes, aspirations , etc. takes a lot of patience and perseverance. It demands us to put ourselves in his shoes to analyze situations from his perspective.

                                      

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Then we went to the hotel, changed our clothes, got ready for dinner. He handed a beautiful box. I opened that to find a stunning necklace set, he put that necklace in my neck and it suited me so well as if I was already the owner of that piece of jewelry. It consisted of colored stones, I was wondering how come he knew about my taste.

 

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The restaurant was fabulous and the meal was super delicious. I was still wondering if I was sleeping. It was difficult for me to absorb reality and me-being-lucky this time. 

 

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I was thanking Universe again and again for so many surprises. I don’t know how Rohan had arranged everything to welcome me in a foreign land. The fact which surprised me more was his secret way of knowing my taste. He knew more about me than I had ever imagined. Perhaps, it’s love, and this time I was lucky in love.

 

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      A wave of satisfaction swept across Rohan’s heart after knowing his wife’s reaction to his efforts. The entry was so well written that he was instantly and effortlessly taken to that day and he started to relive all those memories until he hears the voice of Richa from behind. Before getting accused of stealthily reading her diary, he secretly puts this diary back to the place from where he had picked it and resumed his work.

 

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Swati Sarangi

15.11.2020

  

P.S: This is a second short story under the Series- Lockdown Tales with happy endings which I started during the lockdown. This is purely a work of fiction. All names, characters, places are parts of my imagination. Any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental.

This is the first story of the series in case you've missed it ;Lockdown Blessings.

So, Happy Reading! 

#415 Certification of Participation of the contest ; SeedhiBaat : Story Mirror

 

#414 Certificate of Appreciation : Poetry Street contest from Story Mirror

 

Thanks to Story Mirror for this Dhanteras Gift!

 

Wishing all of you a very Happy Diwali!

#413 : Certificate of Participation : Words World

 

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#412 A lesson learned

                                 A LESSON LEARNED 

Once upon a time, a master went to the bank of a river to meditate. He was followed by his disciples. He positioned himself in the yoga mudra to observe the flow of the river minutely. It continued from minutes to hours and dawn arrived. But he was silent and focused. Few of his disciples became perplexed but they were hesitant to ask him out. One of his disciples asked him politely " Guruji, when are we going to dive into the river? What are you waiting for?"

To this replied, "Let the flow of the river stop, then we will dive."

Disciples could not decipher the meaning of this statement. They kept on looking at each other in a confused manner.

Out of doubt, one of the disciples asked, "How can this be possible ever? Can the river stop flowing? It's just impossible."

Guruji smiled and answered all the queries wittily.

"This is the lesson of today. Our life is synonymous with the river. It never stops at any cost. Now, it is up to you, whether you want to proceed in your life or stop at one of the junctures by being dishearted and demotivated due to the obstacles that you face. Similarly, the waves of the river depict happy and sad moments and keep on reforming. These waves never halt. If you are undergoing a bad phase, then don't stop because these too shall pass. Everyone encounters bad phases in their life. The difference is the ability to handle the situation. Some find it easier to navigate the bad phase because they are full of optimism and positive vibes. They are able to find the silver lines beneath the clouds. They find the stars shining bright in the darkest time. You are essentially not the waves of river rather than the water of river that keeps on flowing consistently regardless of the ups and down. 

So, remember my words carefully, when you experience the dawn of your life, never give up. Always keep in mind that, this too shall pass soon."

24-10-2020

SWETA SARANGI 

#411 Unveiling your identity

 Unveiling your identity

 

I may know not who you are

I may know not what you do

I may not be having a

Single clue about your whereabouts

 

Still I tried to unveil your anonymity

Without an idea about your identity 

Knowing that you're the one,

You're the love that my heart yearns

To be with forever

 

Numerous letters through which

I interacted with you

Not restricting my ink to write words; few

You lived in my imagination

And my search for you continued.

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Swati Sarangi

25.09.2020

#410: Certificate of Participation for Lockdown Lessons : Story Mirror

 

Thanks to the team of Story Mirror for this lovely reward. Gratitude! 

Read My Entry Here: Lockdown Blessings

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Swati Sarangi

18.09.2020

#409 : Book Review- Time Heals

 

Time Heals

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Author: Arti Honrao

Genre: fiction

Format: hard copy

Number of pages: 144 

Star: 3.8/5 (Self)

Published by: pothi.com

 

Review: This novel revolves around the central character, Reva, lady from middle class who is in her early thirties, is staying with her husband Siddharth and daughter Sia. A mysterious guy, Daniel, in his late twenties shifts to the locality where Reva is staying. He appears to observe Reva from his windows as her house is visible through his window. He develops an unusual attraction to her and craves to meet her. Reva’s discovery of infidelity of his husband demands to seek mental support and Daniel shows up as a helping guy in the neighbourhood. The the rest of the story describes how a married woman struggles between several thoughts and selects that path which appears to her as the best thing to do. She comes out of the abusive relationship and chooses love over compromise. She realizes a supportive partner in Daniel and lives happily ever after with Sia as a family.  

 

My Review:  I participated in a contest; Lovingly Abusive conducted by Arti Honrao. I submitted two of my entries in it. You can read those entries here-Breaking free and Rain and tears . Unfortunately I couldn’t win the contest through voting yet I managed to receive consolation prize for the same. This book came to me as the prize of the contest. I felt very happy to receive that and immediately started reading it.

Personally I prefer happy ending in a love story and this novel ends in a happy note. This novel is written from a third person tone.  It would have been little bit more interesting had there been more dialogues between Daniel and Reva as I was eagerly looking forward to their conversation. It’s a novel describing a lot of critical circumstances at one plot. The central character, Reva chooses the path which was unconventional yet the most right thing to do. I was intrigued about the ending , so was curiously flipping over the pages. Several emotions have been very well depicted in different circumstances. 

I enjoyed reading this book and that too something being delivered at my doorstep during this pandemic era to cheer me up as a consolation prize. I liked this experience.

 

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Swati Sarangi

24.08.2020

#408 Book Review : A Letter to the letters of the life

 

A Letter to the letters of the life

A Letter to the letters of life

Genre: Non-fiction

Format: E-Book

Star: 4.2/5 (Self)

This book is about life lessons that the author has learnt during his evolution.

He has implemented a unique concept in organizing the chapters. I absolutely loved the way the chapters have been themed around each alphabet. Kudos to Pranab for it!

The chapters are based on incidents of his life which somehow reminds me about the  act of revisiting pages of old diary and recalling those incidents. Being quite regular in journalling,I could very well connect the way he has expressed his feelings with such a level of transparency. Each chapter is substantiated with a poem depicting his feelings.


It's a leap of faith in his own abilities that the writer has shown, however there's still some scope of improvement .For a debut writer, it is worthy of all praises. Wishing him a Good Luck for his future endeavour. 

Swati Sarangi

11.08.2020

#407 Certificate of participation for Be a Poem from Story Mirror

 

#406 31 days 31 Prompt Writing Challenge S.2

Thanks to the Team of Story Mirror for this certificate!

In this challenge, picture prompts were given every day for a month and participants were asked to write something on the same. I am lucky to have been very consistent throughout this challenge and complete it within the deadline. I regard it as my ‘Lockdown Achievement’

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28.07.2020

#405 Certificate of Contribution from Story Mirror

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#404 Lockdown Blessings

This post has been published by me as a part of Blog-a-Ton 59; the fifty-ninth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. In association with ​IndiCreator. For Creators. By Creators.. Share Your #LockdownTales at indicreator.com

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Sanjana and Saaransh agreed to find their partners through a typical arranged marriage process. Their pictures were exchanged and it was their parents who played pivot roles in this process. They met each other for the first time at Sanjana’s house as ‘rishta’-proposal came from Saaransh’s family. Their meeting was a very formal one in the presence of all relatives from both the sides. Like every other arranged marriage, they were given some time for interaction. In mere exchange of conversation, they felt a striking connection between the two and agreed to proceed further in this process of marriage.

After both of them gave green signal to their families to proceed in this matter, the family astrologer found out a suitable and auspicious date for engagement process by matching each other’s kundli; birth chart, which was just a month away from their first meeting.

After their first meeting, Saaransh went back to his city to join his workplace while Sanjana got busy with the preparation of her final year semester which was the most important task in her list of priorities for her as it was just a week away. She kept herself immersed in the preparation process of end-semester exam and promised her mother to help her as soon as the exam got over. As Saaransh was staying at a faraway city, he had to join his workplace immediately as he was leading an important project.

Sanjana has always been an ideal daughter for her parents, a heart-throb for many boys of her school, college and a sincere student for her teachers. She was not just good at academics but possessed various qualities to enchant anyone. Fair look, beautiful radiant smile, slim built, limousine eyes constitute parts and parcel of her magnetic personality. As promised to her mother, she showed her active involvement in the preparation of Engagement ceremony after her exam got over. 

The day of engagement arrived as decided by the astrologer and all family members had gathered at a temple selected by both parents. Relatives of both parties were invited who arrived at the venue at the decided time. Sanjana got dressed up in a beautiful Silk Saree as selected by her mother and put a little make up to complement with her attire .Her ever green smile added volume to her confident persona. She was brimming with an extraordinary satisfaction; a sense of satisfaction of witnessing her parent’s happiness.

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As soon as she got down from the car at the venue, she saw Saaransh too getting down from his car. It was as if timing was well matched by the destiny, their eyes met for a moment and she could find Saaransh staring at her from the corner of his eye. They exchanged rings after the chant of certain Sanskrit shlokas and performed certain rituals which could not be deciphered by many at that moment. Everyone sprinkled petals of flowers over them as a mark of their blessings to start this beautiful bonding. Engagement process is analogous to the concept of couples proposing each other but in this case they barely knew each other or had spent any moment with each other. The feast began after the ceremony got over.

The photographer called them to the back side of the temple to pose for couple pics. It was when they got some personal time away from the crowd, after their first meet, to shed off some of their personal inhibitions. They weren’t comfortable in giving poses as they had not even interacted well with each other, so they just made it simple. Saaransh broke the ice by complementing her. After some brief interactions, before the photographer started bothering for subsequent pics, they exchanged their mobile numbers to stay in touch; after all officially they were fiancée.  The astrologer selected the nearest Muhurt to be 2^nd day of next month which was barely thirty five days away from their engagement but this time there were a lot of work and both parties agreed to it. All guests and relatives returned to their respective homes with a sense of satisfaction with the arrangement process, food, decoration and divine aura.

Again Saaransh returned to his workplace a day after his engagement. Just after two days, Sanjana received a ‘Hi’ message from Saaransh and their interaction started through messages. After few days, their chatting converted to phone calls .Sanjana was busy with the wedding preparation like shopping clothes ,printing cards, negotiating with catering services, making a list of guests, inviting guests  as well as  helping her brother in academics. There was barely any moment of rest for her. Time was slipping away so fast.

Finally the D-day arrived. Sanjana was feeling little anxious inside ; a mixed feeling she was under going ; excitement of embracing a new phase of life as well as going away from her own family was causing some emotional turbulence within her. Amidst all these feelings she tried to maintain that confident smile which she always carried.    

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Who knew that something like Corona will lock everyone inside their homes for such a long time!

After completing all rituals of marriage and a brief stay with her in-laws, Sanjana had to relocate with Saaransh to Pune where he was doing the job. It was just after few days of entering into a new city, Lockdown 1.0 was declared and it was urged for everyone to be quarantined. Everything was new for her, the city, this new phase of life, new terms like quarantine as well as breakthrough of this new disease called COVID-19.

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Like every other girl, Sanjana too had weaved a lot of rosy dreams about her future partner. Even though she had never expressed it to anyone, she too had some expectations from her marriage and her future husband. Due to the fast paced occurrence of her marriage, she didn’t get much time to enjoy her courtship period with Saaransh. The videos of being proposed with a bouquet of multi-colored roses fascinated and excited her .She had downloaded some of those pictures in her mobile. She would often see those pictures and imagine herself to be one of those girls which filled her heart again with hopes for love. The declaration of Lockdown 1.0 made her happy secretly as she considered this as a golden chance to live her courtship period again. Was God really reading her mind and knowing about her secret desires that no one had known? Perhaps, yes! Lockdown felt like blessing to her and it was carrying forth a lot of surprises for her.

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Slowly and steadily Sanjana got used to this new phase of life. She started to devote more time to her hobbies which she had forgotten to have existed because of academic commitments. She was now living and enjoying life like a child; singing, dancing, painting, reading and giving time to a newly found hobby; cooking.  She was getting to know Saaransh better; his likes, dislikes etc. She found that Saaransh too was very supportive of her.

Months passed and the news of rising positive cases of Corona affected people intimidated her. She took all measures to keep her safe from this novel virus. Saaransh was also allowed to work-from-home due to the declaration of complete lockdown. She was missing her family and it was the first time in which she had been away from her family for such a long time. What could have been done in such a time of pandemic except for saving each other’s lives by adhering to safety rules?

It was a day before her birthday. She was missing her family and friends very badly. She was wondering how her birthday in lockdown would feel like. Just few minutes to her birthday, she was asked to come to the hall of their home where Saaransh had managed to decorate everything secretly. Her favourite chocolate flavoured cake with icing of multi-coloured rose was kept on the top of the table. She was overjoyed to witness all these. Before she picked the knife to cut the cake, Saaransh stopped her and started to do a conference call to her family, friends so that they could all be a part of this-virtual-lockdown-birthday. Lights were turned off, candles lit the room up. She picked the knife and started to cut the cake after blowing the candles, she felt something was obstructing the process of cutting. While she leaned forward to catch the culprit obstructing the process, she found out a small box. Saaransh quickly snatched the box from her hand and sat on his one leg, like a proposing pose, with a bouquet of multi-coloured roses, slid the ring into her finger and confessed that “We didn’t get much time to spend with each other after engagement, think this phase to be like a live-in-relationship. So, can I have the liberty to confess my live-in-partner my deepest feelings that I love her every moment since the time I saw her and always wanted to propose her like her dream proposal? Will you marry me again and be my wife forever?” All these felt like her dream coming true, something straight out of a fairy tale. She shyly said yes and everyone cheered them up in the virtual setting.

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Lockdown gifted her best memories to cherish for lifetime as she had learnt to enjoy life the way it came instead of complaining about the shortcomings. She now, believed that no dream has an expiry date and every dream comes true one day.

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Swati Sarangi

19.07.2020

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