She stepped into the room with high expectations and lo, to her amazement, she found lots of women in that room who were so ugly she didn’t feel like looking at them. She didn’t like those women. She looked more or less similar. When she made a face, those women made it too! She felt intimidated. She felt humiliated by their stares and fear took over her. She didn’t like their presence. She turned round to leave that room when she found her friend entering it. She told her friend “Don’t go in. There is a group of ugly, mean, women in that room who make funny faces.”
Her friend was surprised. She came to see who these women were. When her friend showed the women surrounding her, she laughed and said “OMG Rani! Can’t you see they are nothing but your reflections? This room is called ‘Addala gadi meaning ‘Room of Mirrors’. Mirrors surround you and hence you are seeing your multiple reflections. Haven’t you seen your reflection till date?”
Rani was stunned. Now, her village Bejan didn’t have a single mirror. She didn’t know what a mirror was. She didn’t understand what a reflections was! But she felt cheated and insulted by her friend who showed such a ugly face and said ‘it is you’. Tears rolled down her cheeks. She was shivering with anger. And all along her friend was laughing loudly. Her laugh sounded like a mockery to her. She took a huge stone, which was actually a beautiful piece of crystal kept there and hit her friend. It hit her head and she started to bleed. Rani felt good. She thought ‘Good! Now try to insult me. You deserve this pain and more for saying these are my reflections.” She felt she could kill her friend for saying so.
Then….
…contd……
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