You know what's the best (more of a cliche) thing about time? It passes, yes!!! No matter how anguishing it gets at one stage of time, eventually, it becomes a thing of the past.
What once seems to you as a living hell, ultimately, gets better and turns back to normal with the lapse of time.
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This is the dreary tale of ‘Nasir’, who, out of hysteria or ardent devout altogether overruled the possibility that someday or other he might have to separate from his dearest partner, ‘Shazia’. Investing handsomely into their adorning relationship for a couple of years, getting closer to her soul, and falling more in love with her with every breath he took, and overly engrossing in the goods of their relationship, Nasir omitted the term- 'partition-induced trauma’ from his life's lexicon. Shazia was the girl, who wasn't only the protagonist of his life's story, but also the producer financing his survival; the director, navigating him through the adversities of life; the auditor, keeping a tab on his emotional vitals; the DoP of all his happy expressions; and ultimately the audience, wholeheartedly accolading his every small-big success, and lending him shoulder/hand/lap during his downs. Defying the inevitable, he persistently lived in a fallacy that no power on this earth, no matter how evil or mighty will ever be able to put a full stop to their divine love affair.
But, Nasir certainly wasn't living in a heavenly world where life goes exactly the way he desires or gets everything he wishes for. From once planning to build an opulent empire for the two of them, to finding his utopian world in debris, all it took was a drastic turn and disoriented stars for him to kneel down before life, and how!
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Two years down the line today, after getting a tragic reality check, though things haven't returned to a complete normal for him, he has learnt quite well to control his emotions and behave a little more mature. He doesn't climb the mountains to get a real or virtual glimpse of her or a text from her side, neither laments, nor prays for her to come again in his life anymore.
The partition that once seemed like a dead end to him, ultimately built him to a way stronger, bolder and emotionally intelligent a man. Despite facing one of the most harrowing traumas in his life, today, he has become the person he always implicitly looked up to, and has risen up to a new pinnacle in his own eyes.
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Maybe that's how life really is, where nothing lasts forever. (Remember, what Kizey Basu said to Manny in ‘Dil Bechara’? Justifying her say, neither their relationship lasted forever in reel life, (and out of a grave shock) nor even SSR in real-life did). Nasir still remembers the incident from the last of his days of togetherness. Day, when his heart was not just shattered into pieces, rather was crushed to powder. “Parting away from you would be as painful to me as losing my parents. You love your parents too. Must be knowing that pain, right?!” Nasir plead in front of Shazia. Puncturing every vein in his bruised body, and further adding distaste to his plight, he got the answer that even today makes his heart shiver, “everyone dies, Nasir. No one's here for permanent. That's life!”
The answer that had slit every nerve in his body then, has today, empowered him to see the same with a way more mature and diligent perspective. In fact, Nasir expresses gratitude towards Shazia for turning him into this emotionally stronger a man.
Nasir once used to feel as if this untimely jolt to their relationship, which he once considered inextricable would soon make him surrender to his grief in the long run. But, contrary to that, a couple of years later, today, he has healed himself to a wondrous extent, and is constantly getting better in learning to live, smile and breathe without her.
At times, Shazia’s thoughts and memories do pose bitter sweet obstacles for him and compel him to dive back into the mirage of ecstasy. But, he's now started seeing it from a more rational, prudent and mature view. Rather than brooding over the unfulfilled wishes and broken promises; or daydreaming over the cherishing times spent together, he choses to subtly let go of all the bads or goods, and practises gratitude towards the Almighty with open eyes, for blessing him with a girl like Shazia, for whatever little time.
Nasir's present physical health and career trajectory might have taken a toll due to the extreme stress and depression he had been through. However, he doesn't let them getting affected to the same extent anymore. Pulling himself up and putting in stupendous efforts, neither loneliness haunts him now, nor thoughts of a doomed life ruin his everyday living. He's well back to his healthy schedule (even more passionately than he ever was) and makes merry with solitude. Also, he has regained a good hold of his career, and is constantly grooming himself to climb up professional success' ladder one step at a time.
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It was indeed a great lesson that Nasir gotta learn from his tragically phenomenal encounter with Shazia. It could have gotten a better closure of course. But, nonetheless, that's how life is! Nothing lasts forever, nor goes as per our wish!