Early in the morning a man walks pondering the day ahead, into a staircase leading him to a train station. As he finishes climbing the staircase he sees a women, in her early twenties he guesses, white and frail.. too frail he thinks.. As he proceeds, he takes a left and down he proceeds another set of steps, towards the platform wherein arrives his train. "Like clockwork" he muses. He boards his train deep in ponder on what the day ahead holds in store for him.. such a lot to be done and so little time... But he has to do it, coz that is why he is taking such a long journey, so hard, so tedious.. He had resolved, then that moment that he was going to make it happen that day, bending things as his will suggests. But he also knew that moment that it was going to be tough. It will take a toll on his body, mind and all his faculties.. but he also had to believe that whatever strength of will he had, would get him through it, get him through the day...
It was late in the night, as the man proceeded back,worn out, blank in mind, barely paying attention to what was happening around him. But he noticed, a women walking across him, in her early twenties he guesses, white and frail... too frail he thinks.. He proceeds further, to an awaiting case of stairs.. that lead him out of the platform and then after a short while it was a descent down another set of steps, to the road that lead him home, to where it all started...
One hard day, containing a lifetime....
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ReplyDeleteWhite and Frail woman a? ghost ??
ReplyDelete"Who The white frail lady is?" is left to ur imagination.. The next time you read this post u may of think of her as something else....
ReplyDeletePretty good! WHITE FRAIL WOMAN, I didn't consider that to be mcguffin though. First thought, I had in my mind was that it either represents strength or hope (or whatever is left of it).
ReplyDeleteWow! Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI liked the entire idea so much I'd forgotten that the 'white, frail woman' could be symbolic of something. Now that Sundar and Saimukundhan have tried to guess, I'll have hazard one :)
Two possibilities:
1. The white frail woman could be representative of all the 'other' people who don't go about pursuing some specified goal in their life.
2. She stands for the actual slight relevance of the protagonist's life (which he's vaguely aware of, but doesn't fully acknowledge to himself) as against his perceived significance of his own life. Here, the woman serves as a lingering constant in his subconscious thought processes.
Take care.
First of all i have to say that i am not going to reveal what i had in mind when i used the concept of "The white frail woman", coz then the above post would loose it s very purpose and charm.. (i hope..) if i do so.. But i have to admit that you guys have given a much better interpretation than i could have thought of while writing this post..
ReplyDeleteThanks for your takes..
May the white frail woman be with you ...
I'm really amused that even before you came out with your post--'A Cosmic Take on Life', I did come out with interpretation 2 above. I don't really know what to conclude of that, but sometimes such unexplained coincidences seem very scary.
ReplyDeleteI've no idea what you'd thought of while writing about the lady, but yet somehow maybe owing to the genuineness of your writing, this post speaks something about the person you are, and that's why I was impressed with in in the first place.
TC.