“Until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind.
It seems strange how strangers change our lives. Amber knew one such stranger, who hated her more than anything in the world. How can a stranger hate somebody so much? Well, she had sweared out loud in the garden and made the stranger's baby cry. The stranger didn't know Amber's story, nor did she know the turmoil going inside her head. She just saw Amber as the person who made her kid cry.
Amber thought about that lady a lot. It was quiet obvious she didn't like her from the look she had given her. Love and hate were too extreme emotions which were only a thread's width apart. If not handled with care, it can turn nasty.
People judged strangers from the way they looked, the way they talked, the way they walked, the way they conveyed and expressed their feelings. It was important for a girl to have manners, wear decent clothes, talk politely and softly and be lady-like.
But Amber was not like that. Unkept hair, shabby dark clothes, with a frown on her face, strangers always mistook her for an Emo, which she wasn't.
Nobody looks beautiful with a permanent frown on a face instead of a smile.
It was the same for Amber.
Stangers are judgemental, but sometimes, strangers do help us in some mysterious way, and change our life.
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Nutella ( Wattpadprize14 )
Short Story"Sometimes only the sweetness of Nutella is enough to make someone happy." #125 ChickLit #204 ShortStory.
