I was presented with a “Thakumar Jhuli” on my 7th birthday. (For those of you who do not know what that is, go to Wikipedia…no, actually…if you are shameless enough to not know what “Thakumar Jhuli” is, then go kill yourself.) There were the regular “Lal Kamal ar Nil Kamal” stories. But the one story that intrigued me the most was one that is somewhat like the “Pandora’s Box” story.
It’s basically about how God puts all the emotions in this box and gives them to these children and tells them never to open the box. But being little curious (beastly) children, they obviously open the box and all the emotions- happiness, guilt, mirth, kindness, fly away. The children get scared when they see all of the emotions flying away and quickly close the box, but by then everything has flown away…only “hope” remained.
I used to keep arguing with my aunt that this was not true. There still was happiness when I went to the zoo and kindness when I gave stale chapatis to the street dog. She would tell me that even when I was in the zoo I would kept hoping that I would come again, and when I gave chapatis to the dog I would hope that he would like me. I would pout stubbornly at being defeated in the debate.
How many years has it been since? A decade? More…
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