Tree, Leaf and Wind - A Story of Love?

This is one of the best stories I have read, but its end was missing. I tried to make an end to the story.....


A story about Tree,Leaf and the Wind
Leaf's departure is because of Wind's pursuit. Or because Tree didn'task her to stay......

Tree


People call me "Tree".
I had dated 5 girls (really?? ask youself if its true at the end of story )when I was in Pre-U. There is one girl who I love alot but never dared to go after. She didn't have a pretty face, goodfigure or an outstanding charm. She was just a very ordinary girl. I liked her. I really liked her. I liked her innocence, her frankness, her intelligence and her fragility. Reason for not going after her was thatI felt somebody so ordinary like her was not a good match for me (Or its other way ??). I was also afraid that after we were together all the feelings would vanish. I was also afraid other's gossip would hurt her.

I felt that if she were my girl, she'd be mine ultimately & I didn'thave to give up everything just for her. The last reason, made her accompanying me for 3 years. She watched me chase other girls (or running away from her), and I have made her heart cry for 3 years. She was a good actor, and me a demanding director. When I kissed my second girlfriend, she bumped into us. She was embarrassed but smiled & said, "Go on!" before running off. The next day, her eyes were swollen like a walnut. I did not want to know what caused her to cry (But I knew??). Later that day, I returned from soccer training to get something & watched her cry in the classroom for an hour or so. My fourth girlfriend did not like her. There was once when both of them quarreled. I know that based on hercharacter she is not the type that will start the quarrel. However, I still sided my girlfriend. I shouted at her & ignored her feelings and walked off with my girlfriend (Thats me foolish). The next day, she was laughing & jokingwith me like nothing happened. I know she was hurt but she did not know deep down inside I was hurt too.
When I broke up with my fifth girlfriend, I asked her out. Later that day, I told her I had something to tell her. I told her about my breakup. Coincidentally, she has something to tell me too, about her getting together. I knew who the person was. His pursuit for her had been the talk of the School. I did not show her my heartache, just smiles & best wishes. Once I reached home, I could not breathe. Tears rolled & I broke down. How many times have I seen her cry for the man who did not acknowledge her presence?
During graduation, I read a SMS in my hp. It said, "Leaf's departure is because of Wind's pursuit. Or because Tree didn't ask her to stay"

Leaf_______________
People call me Leaf.
During the 3 years of Pre-U, I was on very close terms with a guy as buddy kind. However, when he had his first girlfriend, I learnt a feeling I never should have learnt - Jealousy. Sourness to the extreme limit. They were only together for 2 months. When they broke up, I hid my happiness. But after a month, he got together with another girl.
I liked him & I know he liked me. But why won't he pursue me? (Or I am being impatience??)Since he loves me why he didn't he make the first move? Whenever he had a new girlfriend, my heart would hurt. After some time, I began to suspect that this was one-sided love. If he didn't like me, why did he treat me so well? It's beyond what you will normally do for a friend. I know his likes, his habits. But his feelings towards me I can never figure out. You can't expect me a girl, to ask him. (or I wonder why cant I? am I searching for something else?) Despite that, I still wanted to be by his side. Care for him, accompany him, and love him. Hoping that one day, he will come to love me. (Or there will be someone like him ?)Because of this, I waited for him. Sometimes, I wondered if I should continue waiting. The pain, the dilemma accompanied me for 3 years.
At the end of my 3rd year, a junior pursues me. Everyday he pursues me. He's like the cool & gentle wind, trying to blow off a leaf from a tree. In the end, I realized that I wanted to give this wind a small footing in my heart. I know the wind will bring the leaf to a better land. Finally, leaf left the tree, but the tree only smiled & didn't ask me to stay.
Leaf's departure is because of Wind's pursuit. Or cause Tree didn't ask her to stay. (Or leaf didn't want to stay?)

Wind________________
Because I like a girl called leaf. Because she's so dependent on tree, so I have to be a gust wind. A wind that will blow her away. When I first met her, it was 1 month after I was transferred to this new school. I saw a petite person looking at my seniors & me playing soccer. During ECA time, she will always be sitting there. Be it alone or with her friends, looking at him. When he talks with girls, there's jealousy in her eyes. When he looked at her, there's a smile in her eyes. Looking at her became my habit. Just like, she likes to look at him.
One day, she didn't appear. I felt something missing. I can't explain the feeling except it's a kind of uneasiness. The senior was also not there as well. I went to their classroom, hid outside and saw my senior scolding her. Tears were in her eyes while he left. The next day, I saw her at her usual place, looking at him. I walked over and smiled to her. Took out a note & gave to her. She was surprised. She looked at me, smiled & accepts the note. The next day, she appeared & passes me a note and left.
It read, "Leaf's heart is too heavy and wind couldn't blow her away."
"It's not that leaf heart is too heavy. It because leaf never want to leave tree." I replied her note with this statement and slowly she started to talk to me & accept my presents & phone calls. I know that the person she loves is not me. But I have this perseverance that one day I will make her like me. Within 4 months, I have declared my love for her no less than 20 times. Every time, she will divert away from the topic. But I never give up. If I decide I want her to be mine, I will definitely use all means to win her over. I can't remember how many times I have declared my love toher. Although I know, she will try to divert but I still bear a small ray of hope.
Hoping that she will agree to be my girlfriend. I didn't hear any reply from her over the phone. I asked, "What are you doing? How come you didn't want to reply?" She said, "I'm nodding my head". "Ah?" I couldn't believe my ears. "I'm nodding my head" She replied loudly. I hang up the phone, quickly changed and took a taxi and rush to her place & press her doorbell. During the moment when she opens the door, I hugged her tightly.
Leaf departure is because of Wind pursuit. Or because Tree didn't ask her to stay...

Moral_____________________

In love, we win very rarely, but when love is true, even if you lose, you still win just for having the tingle of loving someone more than you love yourself. There comes a time when we stop loving someone, not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that, they'd be happier if we let go....

Why do we close our eyes when we sleep? When we cry? When we imagine? When we kiss? This is because THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE UNSEEN.

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind, but keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world.It's the beginning of a new life. Happiness lies for those who cry those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of the people who have touched our lives.
A great love? It's when you shed tears and still you care for them, it's when they ignore you and still you long for them. It's when they begin to love another and yet you smile and say, "I'm happy for you." If love fails, set yourself free, let your heart spread its wings and fly again. Remember you may find love and lose it, but when love dies, you never have to die with it.
The strongest people are not those who always win but those who stand back up when they fall. Somehow, along the course of life, you learn about yourself and realize that there should never be regrets, only a lifelong appreciation of the choices you've made. Loving is not how you forget but how you forgive, not how you listen but how you understand, not what you see but how you feel, and not how you let go but how you hold on.

It's more dangerous to weep inwardly rather than outwardly. Outward tears can be wiped away while secret tears scar forever...

It's best to wait for the one you want than settle for one that's available. It's best to wait for the right one because life is too short to waste on just someone.
End:
Tree :
Tree does not want its leaf to go away, but it could not tell its leaf to stay back. Leaf loved the tree because tree set her free. Tree could not ask her to stay, but leaf could have stayed back. Tree always sets leaf free.

Leaf : Leaf is dependent on tree or it was learning from tree how to love. It could not believe what does a freedom means and could not even understand that Tree wanted her. Leaf was expecting to hear from tree she already knew by her feelings . Leaf's departure is because of wind's persuit and tree has tendency to set her free.

Wind : Wind's persuit is because leaf was dependent on tree. Leaf started enjoying blowing with the wind. Now wind is enjoying dependency of leaf. A blow of wind is not permenant, and leaf could not see tree again.

Love is not about winning or losing, asking to stay or leaving, judging who is right or wrong? In the end who stays, waits and keep loving matters!!!! Tree stands alone....
Happy reading!!!

Statue of Liberty or Liberty of statues????

The world is not strange, but its us who do strange things to make it strange.
The thought came in my mind when I refer to daily headlines about statue controversies / discussions in Uttar Pradesh since last couple of days.

Millions of rupees invested in such statues are wonderful utilization of taxman’s money. If USA can have statue of liberty, what is wrong if people are taking liberty of statues in India??
If a statue can make USA superpower, think how much India can gain through thousands of statues across the country of all “honourable” politicians and their parties??

And what is wrong with common man? Even we shall have liberty for statues. Think, all of us making statues for us trying to display at your doorstep, nearby cross roads, or your favourite places. Thinks where would you like to place your statue?

Government can gain so much by applying tax to display of statues. And sculptors can become billionaires. Really next bill gates can be from India, a statue revolution.

Think if we get liberty where can people display their statues? There will be bidding for displaying statue at public places. And that can be other billions in India’s kitty.
Every Sulabh would like to display statue to his nearby public places. Or like family photo family statues on display. Even square feet's for statues will be on sale. and family deals.. couple of previlage cards to move your statue from place to place.

This can make India country of statues; people will visit India rather than madam Tussad, to see millions or billions of statues.
Who will see Mayavati’s statue then? But then she will not spare our money in Statues but something else that may create people’s attention. Thats what they are employed for right?

So where is the end of these spending and where will our politicians really act and think on India's growth than promoting their own faces???

By the way anyone wish to share statue with me???? :)

Book review - winner stands alone - Paulo Kohelo

As with most of other readers, I also started reading Author Paulo Kohelo (PK) from his book Alchemist. And the author became part of my best author's list.

After Alchemist there are couple of books I havnt gone through but I accidently seen this book “ Winner Stands Alone” the latest one.

I am telling accidently because after long time I started reading a book. As PK says one attracts all situations in life by his choice. And I attracted this book or vice versa.

By the way have you ever seen a book sponsoring television series? If no. This one does. I wonder if PK can write to us “ How to make money through writing” But his writings are always worth taking a look. And so I tried him again.

One aspect that attracted me read this book is that the subject totally different subject from earlier writings of the author. It talks about modern life. It talks about love, break up, violence and good and bad aspects of today’s high life.

But even with change in time, you can find the same rhythm in the author’s writing. One thing I like about PK’s writing is explaining how his characters think, their philosophical thoughts, their stories and life.

Like his earlier writings, the book has a central character called Igor. But the difference in this character is he is a proved winner. A Russian who has struggled through war during his earlier times bankruptcy after war and then fought through all odds again coming out as one of the most influencing people in Russia. He owns a telecom company, but with influence there are other businesses too.

Winning is a habit and this character is no exception. Somehow Igor has to lose his love of life. The reason behind the breakup is explained as Igor’s workaholic nature and not giving much attention to his wife’s (Ewa) need. but one you start reading you really wonder if it is so. You can feel Igor's desperation and love in his thoughts.

The winner, Igor has all plans to find the truth behind his love or something else. He want to win again. Ewa – his wife is the only person he loved in his life. He wonder if getting her back is a winnig for him? and throughout the book its the only question reader keep on finding answer for. You keep on wondering why the perfect couple have broken up.

And the search of reader and Igor starts, the story revolves around couple of characters at Cannes film & Fashion festival.

Igor believe in one thing “Whenever one dies, one world around him/ her dies” He knows how to get attention of Ewa, so as to achive his goal he started killing the worlds.

You may like the specialised killing with all techniques, but while reading it one feels like why? Why is he killing people?

You feel like Igor is a bad guy, he is psycho. But when the story developed he clears his intensions. Igor realises that the sacrifices of the worlds is not deserved. He realises that if Ewa could not react to someone’s death, his messanges, his love there is a question, do she really deserve what he is doing?

In the end, we realise that there is nothing right or wrong. A person tried to search back his love and he realised that his love does not deserve. PK has written a bitter truth of today's life, the whole episode shows people has a reason for being in life, and they have their own priorities. Emotions are nowhere and its just self interest. Ewa was also one of those opportunistic people who runs behind rising sun. Those who believe in staying happy with mask on their face regardless of their inner wish. Those who go with the wind but they cant stay with one for long.

PK has explained the situation all the different way here. Tough to explain it in few words, but few of the best lines in the book were....

• The world always was and always will be complicated.
• God closes a door and opens a window
• Don’t complain and don’t expect too much either.
• The mirror reflects perfectly, it makes no mistake. Because it does not think. To think is to make mistake.
• The man does not live on bread alone,but on every word from god’s mouth.
• I am .. Who I am
  

I liked a situation where Igor was searching for an answer “What being normal means??” but I fail to realise why Igor could not find answer even at the end?

Though its all about love of Igor for Eva, it does not discuss about love. It talks about a relationship that dies.

Igor may be a bad person, but at the end reader realises whether Ewa deserve that love? Igor may have killed the worlds but all of them has a purpose.

The purpose of giving a learning to readers :

“We must love because we are loved by god too. We must be conscious of death if we are to have proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow. But without falling into trap of power we grow through that struggle, because we know that such power is worthless. Finally we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and limitations.”

the book will not be among my favourites, but I will say its worth reading once.
Happy reading..
PP

QUOTES

• When you feel it ended, it have not even began yet!
• The world is tragety to those who feel, and comedy to those who think.

Lack of self respect makes u fat :))

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