DiSEnChaNteD

Standing on the rooftop, engulfed by the velvety darkness, I wondered and hoped against hope for the  magnificent albeit fictional, Iron Man to zoom by and take me away from my sad reality of a life.

Don’t get me wrong for I am no damsel in distress, living a-la Cinderella, in some remote corner of the world. Quite the contrary, I have a beautiful family with parents who strive to give me everything humanly possible, siblings who simply adore me, few but enough friends who would give up their lives ,if need be ,for me in a nanosecond.

Yet all I feel is a crushing loneliness, a heartfelt desperation to leave everything, and everybody to streak away to an unseen future where my life has a meaning and a purpose to it. For every moment of here and now seems so unreal as if there is somebody else in the driver seat. 

Given a choice, ending it all might just prove to be the answer for this inconsequential ,meager existence but then I would never know whether I could have made any difference in the chaos called Humankind.

It was rightly believed in the ancient Egyptian culture that when people died, on the brink of heaven they were asked two Questions-

 “Have you found joy in your life?

Has your life given any joy to anybody in your life?”