Sadhana

Sadhana was getting married and it was taking so long for the fact to sink in. It started with an easy attitude but slowly she was getting feverishly happy. Her wide smile was infecting the whole house now. There were so many people in the house and so much work was going on. At every moment there were bursts of laughter and excitement. One festive occasion had united all the chains of relatives under the same roof. Children were having the best of their time and elders were fulfilling all their whims and fancies.
She was standing at the balcony of the house and absorbing the whole scene. She wanted to remember each and every moment of these happenings throughout her life and to their very smallest detail. She took a deep breath and with a tear in her eye she ran to her mother to give her a tight hug. She wanted to remember this hug more than anything. Her mother was blushing with this sudden attention and showered kisses on her daughter. She saw the sparkling tear in her daughters eye and before the next moment passed she started crying her heart out. This emotional embrace was soon joined by all the other relatives and soon a laughing congregation turned into a series of sobbing. The only difference was that they were happy at the bottom of everything. An elderly lady scattered the group by reminding them of the pending jobs.
Sadhana went back to the balcony and started to rewind her life right from her childhood. It was a great time that she had spent. She couldnt count many days when she was sad or distressed. Theirs was a very happy family with a wonderful couple as parents. With an elder brother and an younger sister, Sadhana just about had an ideal family. She was always secretly proud about being a part of a perfect picture. For about an hour or more she stood at the balcony refusing all pleas to go inside and take some rest. The ocean of happiness was forming a lump in her throat. There were huge waves of emotions surging inside her. Was this because she was going to say a goodbye to all her jeweled past under such elaborate festivities? Was this because the future held a huge puzzle of how its going to be? Or was she afraid that anything more wonderful in life will diminish the significance of her past? Was having a perfect life the biggest gloom ever? She was not sure what it was but something had burst inside her in the past hour.
She wanted to seal this hour in its unique intactness. She wanted to stop the time, the hour, the minute. And she knew exactly how to do it. Thats what her name meant right? Work for whatever you want. And this time she would work till her last breath. Almost literally.
As she thought about it there was a slight peaceful smile on her lips and a radiance in her eyes. She turned around towards her bustling family and drank to her fill with the present moment.
The whole house reverbrated with a dull thud. People ran from all directions towards a bloody spot at the bottom of the balcony. Sadhana was deeply immersed in her final meditation with a gentle smile adorning her face. She had sealed her happiness forever.