The Key
When I held the key to room 28 of a Working Women’s Hostel, it had a story to tell. The key carried a legacy. For the past 25 years, or maybe more, so many women owned this key. It might have been with a woman who was single, working and living alone in Bombay to support her family in Nasik. The key might have opened the room for a young lady who walked out of a dysfunctional marriage against the wishes of her family and decided to live all by herself. It could have been with an ambitious medical student, a humble and hardworking beautician, a war widow, a struggling actress, a Page3 reporter of some vernacular magazine...
The key brought them to rest after a day of hard work. Some worked because they aspired for economic independence, some to support their families and some just for survival…
I may not be sure of what I want from life or where will I go next…but when the next occupant comes, I would be a part of the key’s legacy…
{PS: The writeup was originally submtted as a graded assignment. This is a modified version:-)}
That key will also perhaps open door to very interesting insights about the world they experienced.
ReplyDeleteInteresting write up, looking forward for more, and more regularly!
Vivek
interesting text....!!!
ReplyDeleteIn oneself lies the whole world and if individual know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Don't wait for occupants to arrive and explore themselves with your key..
There is a very interesting fact about the key is that "every key has the strength to unlock one and only one lock/door"..sometimes we try to open the door with a wrong key...and states " oh! This is a wrong key" but actually it is a illusion..the key is meant to open only one door..it is user of the key who is on fault..so be a alert user of the key(s) of your life to unleash the door(s)of potential within you.........
Don't be a part of key's legacy because legacy has a hidden trail which haunts sometime......
just be a key for a right door to open and explore it again and again for its life time...u will explore interesting things each time, u open it...
Ashish Pandey