Divorced!!!

It has been five years now since our parents got divorced. We still don’t get, why it ended up this way.

Yesterday when I was packing up I found our old album. While going through all of those pictures I was constantly searching for answers to my question. What was hidden behind their smiling faces I could not figure out. And I didn’t even realize that I was sobbing.

My phone was constantly ringing. It was already the fifth time so I had to go and check. And coincidently it was my mother. I couldn’t hold it back anymore and ended up asking her.

“Why Maa?? Why you two decided to get divorced?? You two were so in love with each other then what happened??”

It was dead silence on her side. For an instance, it scared me. Then I heard her silent cry. I regretted my impatience. And she replied,

“For the past five years, that’s what I have been asking myself.”

And she hung up the call. 

I was so puzzled. What was that? What did she mean by that?

I just sat there for a while blankly staring at the wall. My mind was a mess. I just couldn’t process things. 

Since yesterday it was continuously on my mind that's why today I decided to talk about it with Ragini. At first, I was going to call Baba but I decided first to discuss things with her.

She was busy so I asked her to call me back when she is free. In that meantime, I started finding everything that was related to our parents and their married life. I ended up finding more than I had expected. I thought they might have thrown these things away, but just everything from their marriage till their last anniversary together even gift wraps were there.

I was amazed. The love marriage couples don’t preserves such things but even though our parents had an arranged marriage they treasured everything even the tiniest possible thing such as flowers from their warmala. They were kept in a wooden box on which my parents’ name was carved. I knew my dad was a good carver but this was beyond my expectations.

And at that moment I decided I must bring them both together again. No matter what was the reason behind their separation, we had witnessed their love and it was the only thing we both had always agreed on as opposite twins.

Ragini’s message popped up on the screen after hours of wait. I got so annoyed I was waiting for her call and here she is texting me. That’s how we are I prefer calling and she prefers texting.

She had sent me an invitation to a mega Holi Celebration Event. As a rookie event organizer, it was her first big project.

I asked her “Did you invite Maa or Baba?”

She replied, “Baba, you know I want to show him what I am capable of and as only one of them will attend so I invited him.”

I asked her to invite Maa as well. She was not in the mood to listen to me, but somehow I convinced her.

Now it was on me to make sure they both will come. And I had no idea how to make it possible. Still, I decided to take the bet.

I segregated all the stuff I had found and sent it to both of them. And now all I could do was wait and watch will it work or not.

I had two surgeries scheduled thus I had to go back. I told her I wouldn't be able to attend the event. At first I was going to video call Ragini after I'm done with the surgeries but as I was the only surgeon available in our department I had to perform two more emergency surgeries. 

It was already midnight when I got free. As soon as I switched on my phone I received a message from Ragini. It was a picture of our parents together smiling, both of them were colored in the same color.

There were two other messages from Maa and Baba. Both had said the same thing.

“Thanks for your mistake, Nandini.”

At first, I couldn’t understand what they meant, but then I looked at the pictures they had sent me.

In the hurry I had swapped their addresses.

And that day I learned the biggest lesson of my life because of my mistake. 

“TO FORGIVE SOMEONE, WE DON’T NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THE LOVE THE OTHER PERSON HAD FOR US. WE NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THE LOVE WE HAD FOR THAT PERSON.”