You know the saying, “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, think about that as you read
They had been living life but with a deep sense of emptiness
They kept wondering what was wrong because life as they knew it was fine
But there was just a cloud of sadness that they couldn’t seem to shake
There was nothing glaringly wrong
Yet the emptiness stuck. Sometimes morphing into sadness
It moved heavily like a cloud of play dough over their head and sometimes even inside their nostrils. Suffocating them till they had to do something to numb the feeling
Don’t think too far
The “something” was simple. It involved a dance that went like this – eat, watch a movie, eat, sleep, eat, call a friend, eat, start over
A seemingly normal but very ugly dance
But like it is with most not-properly-diagnosed illnesses that we self medicate, the feeling could only be numbed for a moment before it presented itself again and again in mild and extreme forms
One day they accidentally poured too much water in a bowl of cereal throwing off their desired water-to-milk ratio and that was it
All hell was let loose
They cried uncontrollably for hours
Their friends wondered if it was the same (cereal) event that had caused this much of a reaction
Of course they couldn’t wrap their head around it
What they didn’t know was that the subject had been broken all along.
There had been multiple cracks in the beautiful glass ornament that was the subject and their essence had sipped out slowly over the course of time
They had only stayed together all this while by some strange hand of God
But because they hadn’t known they were broken, they hadn’t sought to be glued back by the one who can fix all things
A small wind came in the form of a misplaced water:cereal ratio and all pieces came crumbling down
People around only witnessed this crash but the subject had been broken all along
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