Once there was a girl

Once there was a girl who didn’t know what she’d like to be when she grew up. She only knew she had to be good in order to do good. So she never did anything bad and followed all the rules. She did her homework and listened to what others had to say on what her future ought to look like. She aced all her exams and made her parents proud. She followed her life’s script, got a job, got married and had a child. Then something happened that almost ended her life. Not literally, but it was significant enough to end everything that was familiar. For unlike the first time or many others that happened before then, she fell in love. Truly, madly and deeply. For the first time, she learnt exactly what love is, how beautiful it can be, and in the same breath, how excruciatingly devastating.