The Morning After I Killed Myself…



The morning after I killed myself, I woke up.
I made myself  breakfast and opened fridge for the milk. I washed the dishes and folded the towels. I stared into the rising sun. Bright streaks of red, pink and orange slowly overcame the dark blue and purple of the twilight sky…The sky resembled a prism, all the colors blended perfectly into each other !
 It was mesmerizing as it is inviting me to stare deep into the horizon…

The morning after I killed myself, I fell in love.
 I fell in love with my mom and the way she keeps on cleaning, cooking and doing chores whenever she has the time and strength to do so. It surely isn’t a cake walk to cook my favourite dishes, neaten the linens, keep up with her schedule and manage ours too! And do all of this again the upcoming day and the day following it and on and on! No holidays, no stipend, no raise… just a sincere affection !
I fell in love with my dad. The way he manages to help mom in spite of having his busy job schedule… I fell in love with his struggles to be a standard against which I will judge all the men..!

The morning after I killed myself, I went back to my backyard where I left my footprints in the grass. I examined how they were already fading. I picked a few daylilies and pulled a few weeds. I looked across the street and watched an elderly woman through her window as she read the paper, with the news of my death.

The morning after I killed myself, I went back to my body in the morgue and tried to talk some sense into her. I told her about the sun rising and the illuminating sky. I told her about falling in love and the footprints in the grass.
 If I killed myself, the stars would still appear, the sun would still come out, the earth would still rotate, the seasons would still change…
So The morning after I killed myself, I tried to un-kill myself…!!!
                                                                                               

                                                                                                            
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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