Sometimes the second chance isn't enough and life tests you harder before finally awarding you the much awaited third chance when you have disastrously messed up the second chance. The process isn't easy. It wasn't for Anuj and Anupamaa. He suffered without her for 30 years and she did too just not with him just not to his knowledge. She suffered in her next birth for 30 years straight with a toxic family and an abusive husband. They breathed their last in the same second. She took the sufferings on herself to pace the timings for her next life. And they passed the test of destiny to meet again after yet another 20 years. Destiny had them back at the same place, the same city - 50 years hence!! ~ Y E A R 2 0 7 3. Anupamaa Merchant and Anuj Bharadwaj... They are now poles apart. She isn't the same Anupamaa Joshi and neither is he the same Anuj Kapadiya. Their lives had taken a full circle to land them where they stand now! Could they work it out this time what they couldn't back then? Would they be able to avail this rare third chance? Is destiny willing to play it's evil once more? ~

"I failed terribly. I messed up everything. He was right. Our chhoti... His chhoti got punished for being like me...I can't be a good mother. I never was. I'll never be. I will always be a failure. I failed with a bad husband and with a good one. The problem wasn't with HIMs but with me. I was too worthless. I turned him into a maniac. I suffocated him by being WHO I AM with WHO I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. I killed his love. I could never wipe my hands clean of the blood that blotted my hands of this murder. I murdered his love of 26 years in less than a year. I can't run this marriage for even an year. How suffocated my ex must've felt when I wasn't even his choice. I killed my husband's feelings for me. I can't fix it. I can never do a thing right. People were right.... I AM A FAILURE. ", Anupamaa contemplated as her feet bled for standing on broken glass since long minutes. A sneak peek into a different perspective. A human that could ultimately break. The coldness that froze the tireless one. A SAD Short Story. WARNING:- Don't continue if you are not okay with sad content.