Tale 86

Shweta and her younger brother were adorable kids from a super rich family...
Their father was a mining consultant and mother, (daughter of an industrialist) a house wife....
Shweta flew to the US for completing her masters in sports and nutrition while her brother got into a university in Germany for his M.S.
Shweta was an extremely pretty girl with dove eyes radiant skin and glowing complexion....
Her most striking feature was her height and long hair which complemented her hour glass figure....
She could pass off as a model, rather be one....
However she didn't feel the need to earn while studying given her affluent family back in India to support her...
As soon as she finished her Masters her parents called her back...
They wanted to find her an appropriate match and get her married...
Job, earning, financial independence were never considered a necessity with the riches that the family basked in....
It was a close knit family of four....
Shweta requested her mom and dad to let her explore Acting as a hobby...
She successfully played lead roles in a few serials....
However she was not much of a fighter to get ahead in the entertainment industry since she knew she never had to have the struggle of earning at the end of the day...
She acted for her own satisfaction and that kind of struck a famous playback singer whom she met at a social event....
They got acquainted.... 
He was a big name in the music industry, handsome, talented, in demand, popular but married....
They fell for each other....
For him, this was an extra marital affair, while for her it was an open eyed commitment with no future....
They were fully aware yet not in control...
It so happened that her mother went to the south of India to attend a wedding of a close friend if hers, suffered a severe heart attack and passed away on the spot....
Shaken with this incidence Shweta's father suffered a heart attack exactly two months after her mother's death and passed away....
Within a span of 2 months Shweta's world came crashing down from everything to nothing....
Her brother visited India to perform the last rites, however went back to Germany to complete his coursework and settle for good...
He had almost nothing to fall back upon back here in India since he thought that Shweta would eventually marry and settle down anyway....
Shweta was now unfortunately left with a huge fortune that her parents left behind and the unproclaimable relationship that she had with the playback singer... 
She was done with acting... 
She dabbled in the field of her expertise...
Being as a consultant nutritionist for several hospitals. 
Even that did not bring her peace...
She had her boyfriend on one hand to lend her emotional / physical support on one hand, but no asurity of a secure future together...
She could have got some of the most handsome and capable men at her feet given her status and beauty 
However to her everything seemed shallow....
She searched for deeper meaning of life..
Went to the mountains.....
There she started a school for the tribal people...
Set it up as a working model and went on to doing the same in and around the less trodden areas in himachal...
She found solace in philanthropy and worked selflessly for society....
She still maintains her relationship with the playback singer as his girlfriend....
She knows she loves him and only him...
Just that she understands that there are different kinds of love to the universal emotion that LOVE per say is....
Selfless giving love is what she means to spread around with those less fortunate....
She is happy for others...
She is happy in doing what she does for them...
She is happy she can...
Is she really happy for herself???
Well we really don't know....
She celebrates the uncertainty in life with a smile....
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- Prajakta Sathe