MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

TRANQUILITY OF FLOW

"but it still doesn't taste good"

"It is healthy and that's enough reason for you to eat it bhanu"

"But duryo-"

"Say Aa"

"Aa, mhmm..........still not good"

"If not for Maharaj, Maharani wouldn't even had food down her throat"

"True, if Maharaj wouldn't had been feeding Maharani from three months then I doubt if her food had been healthy"

It is already seventh month of pregnancy of the Maharani of Hastinapur. The past months were filled with continuous mountain ranges of different types of emotions. They were filled with small embarrassments when she was caught sneaky eating by him, some small arguments but with his understanding and her quick realisation, little bit of alone crying where he find her and doesn't leave her until she is safely in her room and not to forget the fillers with so many excitements, happiness & banters with Mata Gandhari's full support towards her.

For Duryodhana, these past months has been the uplift of his life. The months taught him patience, individual time and importance of happiness in small things. These taught him that life is never going to be easy, especially when he found Bhanumati crying alone in the bath place while muttering about this all being her fault but when he grabbed her hands, pulled her out of that darkness that once had trapped him, made him feel that life is never going to be easy, it depends on person how they see it and seems like he now understands, how to find joy in little things.

It isn't like, that there was never a relapse but still, it didn't took him much time to remember, it is not just about him and will never be from now on. It is already enough that until now, only she has faced everything, even from his side but now he is going to do it, for himself, for his friend, for his child.............for his family. The thoughts still makes him anxious that he is going to be father, leave him in guilt when he remembers that it isn't love that brought their child instead it is....................but still forgetting everything, he decided to focus on the upcoming future and that is enough to take all his attention. They have together decided that and he has no right to think from just his own side, hence let the world come cause he is ready to protect their child.

For Bhanumati, these past months has been brilliance to her pain of new life. The very thought of being mother, once had afraid her when she became a maiden but now has made her feel many things. It isn't just about emotions or just physical changes, it feels like a new start, which could had been bad but fortunately, none of them wanted it to happen for their child. These months taught her about patience and calmness. It never was easy to began with, to even think that only raising Kid is hard cause now it told her that whole process is full of surprising events and that she is going to be astonished at almost every single new phase.

The thing wasn't just about the child, it felt like that she herself is changing into a new person and that became both the reason of motivation and relapse. Although it felt easy to think, she knew that it wouldn't be easy at all to raise a child which will be a constant reminder of her past that she wanted to leave behind for the new start. Though, thanks to his courage and first step forward, she realised that she isn't alone and the child isn't going to be constant reminder of past but instead would be the epitome of her courage and sacrifices. Realising that she isn't alone in this journey was alone enough to come through that relapse and knowing that now it is seventh month of the new life phase-

"we are ready to leave"

-that they both reached together.

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