Safu was born into a body that was weak and shackled to the earth. Day by day, she watched her organs fail, one at a time as her fingers lost their will to move. She watched her parent's eyes grow dimmer and dimmer until her own sight grew dim as we...
"Dreams do come true. If only we wish hard enough. You can have anything inlife if
you will sacrificeeverything else for it.
― Peter Pan
Prologue
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THERE WERE MANY DAYS WHEN ALL SHE COULD THINK OF WAS DEATH for it was the end of all sickness. She wished she could get away from the disease that plagued her body and grew from her heart and throughout her mind. She wished she could move her arms again like she used to or draw as she once loved to do. There were times she wished she could fly away to a scattered dream in the sky, waiting for the breeze to overtake her and she could spread out her arms towards the embrace.
Safu had so much to be thankful for: loving parents and the finances to pay for her treatment.
But more than anything, as her body fell apart and she lost the ability to move, she wished she lost the ability to see. She wished she never knew that her mother had developed wrinkles and her father had deep and heavy bags underneath his eyes. She wished she could no longer see the way they stared at her, this dead girl in the sheets, or the way they scampered through the room like zombies in a daze.
These were things she wished she never saw and she knew in the very depths of her heart that she was the reason. She wished she never existed. Perhaps if she never lived, her parents would be happy again.
She wished she never developed her illness that took away her hair and her smile.
She wished this life, surrounded by doctors and nurses and death....was all a dream.
More than anything, when she died in her sleep, she wished she could forget all of it.
