The Mountain I Crossed

Amy and Nathan were from a small town of west Florida. They were expecting a new member in their family, in the near future. On the twenty-fourth of May, two thousand nineteen, Jenifer was born. As Nathan held her daughter in his arms for the first time, the world around changed completely. Suddenly, he felt more responsible, caring, and loving. Life was totally changed for Amy and Nathan with the arrival of Jenifer.

Jenifer was a fair, black-eyed, round face cute little angel whose smile was everybody's life. The moment she cried the world around ran to her rescue. She was the queen of the house who never missed her single chance to be the wonder woman.

Slowly as time passed by and Jenifer added on inches to her height, Amy and Nathan painted their hair white. Jenifer was an obedient child and Amy and Nathan responsible parents They have donned their daughter with all the virtues that bloom her and skilled her in all the work that added to her beauty. She was a soft-spoken person which was an added asset to her poignant character. They never missed an opportunity to teach how to deal with every aspect of life. She was one of the blessed kids to have Amy and Nathan as her parents. Amy and Nathan too were confident that they have done all that responsible parents should do to raise such a gem of life.

Everyone who saw her, desired her to be the glory of their house, but that was practically not possible. But she was searching for someone special, someone who sinks with her completely till the extend that it was difficult to identify them individually.

Now this condition was difficult to be satisfied in those days when marriages were being done by elders based on their evaluation and understandings.

Jenifer had a dream one day. She saw that she was married to a tall, well-built, good looking man of the east. She also saw that he one day sat near a river with a brooding face. Closely observing him, she came to know that he was sad because he lost his mother because of a deadly disease that has no cure. His mother was his life. So now his life has become difficult.

On the other hand, she saw that she herself came to see her school friend Maria in this village, on her school vacation. Thus their fun time began. She also saw that she went to this jungle with Maria one day enjoying the serenity and coolness of the breeze that struck her cheeks.

Living in the town for the whole of her life, village life was totally new and completely mesmerizing. The open fields blessed with green ready to bloom in the season. The white coat and earthen pot headed scarecrow standing right in the middle of the fields drove all the birds that came to pick the grains. And those big water storage tanks they made at places to water the fields were all new to her. She was enjoying every bit of it when she finally stopped at the sight of a man looking through the setting sun over the farther end of the river end. Jenifer herself being a jolly and fun-loving person somehow didn’t like the brooding face of this young guy.

 ‘The setting sun always gives hope that a rising is going to appear after a couple of hours of hiding,’ smirked Jenifer to break his preoccupied state. Hearing a sweet voice with heart touching words, he turns and looks to her. Opportunistically, she smiled back and said, it’s time to return and prepare for a new beginning. Mesmerized by her hopeful words, he gets up and asks, ‘Who are you? I have never seen you before.’

By this time Maria came running, ‘Jenifer, come let us leave.’ And she pulls her back to home giving no time to the young man to inquire further. But her cooing voice echoed his mind and her optimistic approach to life kept reeling in his mind compelling him to find her back. He tried all his best to keep himself from all her thoughts. But the more he did to get rid, even more, compelling the desire to find her gruelled-up. Unable to forget her he finally decided to find her.

And in the due course of this search, he finally reached to Maria and enquired about this mystery girl. Afraid of his robust, fierce look and heavy, thundering voice, she resisted at first but when he patiently explained that the past memories of his with his mother were so quenching that he refused to accept the death of his mother. Thus he found impossible to come out of this grief of his mother’s death. And no hope was left for his recovery. He himself had given up on himself to see life normally again when she came to his life from nowhere and utter words that did magic healing to his dilapidated soul. The most appealing imprints of my past that never wanted to leave me knelt at those spellbound, coaxing phonetics.

Today if I am here, it is all because she took the courage to speak those magical words to a stranger who needed her help. I never understood the mystical godly approach to every event, but this occasion of my life surely draws attention to the unseen hands of God working among us to heal us and rejuvenate our souls that lost all its hope.

Hearing these words, Maria fell down to her knees and cried bitterly. Laying his hands on her shoulder, he says, ‘What happened sister?’ And with blurred vision and quivering voice, she said, ‘Even Jenifer uttered the same words. She said, her soul drew her to that lonely place. And when she saw you, the whole of her dreams which she had been seeing for years flashed in one go proclaiming one this that this is the soul you need to rescue. And thus she spoke up.’

‘Okay, but what is the big deal?’ To this Maria replied that they all have never heard Jenifer speak a word to anybody. She always wrote and communicated. No one has heard her voice ever. You are the only one who speaks of her speech.

Hearing these words shook the man. And deep in his soul, he knew this was meant for him to realize that nothing is impossible. A possibility always exists, whatever be the situation. Your look to life is going to change everything that wishes to rule. A river always makes its way out of no-way.