When Indeed The Long Summer Ended: Petrichor
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into the empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” -Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer Every time I walked into the empty spaces, I have tried to close the gaps of the past by writing each of these stories. Written over a period of five years, these stories are semi-biographical. Being a truehearted Bond girl, a Ruskin Bond fan, I have a romanticized romance itself. Melancholy, unrequited love and loneliness are the essence of these stories. Yet, I have tried to bring about a silver lining through them. The book comprises of a collection of short stories based on incidents and people I have come across in my life. Since it’s not entirely biographical, rather fictional in a way, the stories either end abruptly or sometimes in a very different way than they were in reality. Sometimes the way I wanted them to end in my life. If not love stories, these stories can be called as romantic stories. The stories are meant to bring about a hope for the true romantic hearts. The title of the book itself speaks of hope. Petrichor, the pleasant smell that escorts the first rain after a long period of dry weather. Yes, we all eagerly wait for the long summers to end, and for the rain to wash away the wilderness. Each story tries to bring forward only one message, which is never to lose hope. Never to give up even when things seem gloomy because you never know what’s waiting for you just around the corner! As said by a wise man once, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” The stories are like pages from the journal of someone who never gave up on love and hope. The innumerable heart breaks and pangs of loneliness have made them nothing but determined and hopelessly romantic. Most of the stories take place in a phase of the protagonist’s life when they are lost in the convolutions of life, only for their past to come back knocking, to make them reminisce the by-gone golden moments. The stories that end abruptly are written in a fashion to let the readers decide the fate of the characters. The cynics can live peacefully knowing that there is a thin chance of a “happily-ever after” and the romantics are reassured that there is always a hope.
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