I have been reading the book "Act of Love" where a top notch theater actress Jessica meets an accident and is no more capable of walking straight or walking without a cane, she no more looks beautiful with her gray hair and a stoop. She isolates herself from the rest of the world especially from theater, New York and her closest friend Constance (an 80+ years old lady and a retired top notch actress herself), on an Island of Lopez.
Luke, a top theater director and grandson of Constance reads her conversations with Jessica in her exile after death of Constance and decides to find out more about Jessica because he falls in love with her while reading her letters to Constance. He goes to Lopez island and finds Jessica but Jessica looked nothing like what he had imagined her from her letters and what he had seen her like before. He returns without meeting her, but is not able to stop loving her and goes back to meet her. He falls in love and makes Jessica fall in love with him, herself and he discovers a little flicker of hope that Jessica was hiding inside her to return to theater. He loves her, probes her and pokes her to return to theater.
Finally Jessica does return to theater not in New York but in Sydney, as director, and with help of Hermione she finally becomes the actress she always wanted to be.
The interesting thing is even when she had put herself in exile where she neither talked to anyone or meet anyone she kept a dog named "Hope" with her.
A hope is a wonderful thing and can make miracles happen. :)
It's a hope that leads us forward and makes the whole journey called life worthwhile. Jessica found the love of her life in Luke and a friend of lifetime in Hermione but only because she had a hope inside, a little spark; with this she could achieve everything she had exiled herself from, thinking people wont accept her the way she is now.
Now starts my story.
This is the favorite time of year for me, onset of Summer. It's little hot though but I am sure soon some drizzle will render the whole city cool and green. Why this time is my favorite because all of a sudden the green trees around start bearing blossoms Yellow, Pink and Purple; trees are often laden with flowers only. Mango trees are laden with tiny first fruits of the season. They make an awesome view to my eyes and my heart. Perhaps they all symbolize Hope. Hope of new season a new beginning and hope of everything. I know its already March but March has been the official year-end for schools, offices and financial year and a promise of a new beginning since childhood to us all.
This year I welcome this season with mixed feelings, I have always had mixed feelings of Joy and sorrow for beginning and end at the same time. But this time more of sorrow and little less of joy as I think this would probably be my last summer in Bangalore. I would have to leave the trees, seasons, roads, flowers and my friends behind; Practically almost everything I am so familiar to have around since last 7 years. Yheah 7 years looks like a lifetime to me. But I will hold onto the hope. Hope to see them again sometime.
This tree (picture taken at one of my late evening walks in my apartment complex) is a tree which doesn't have any leaves but it still blooms with the blossoms of hope. Somewhere deep down it teaches us all that no matter what hold onto "Hope".
This blog is for everything and everyone I will miss when am gone. :)
Cheers!! :)
