Epiphany

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 She was sitting by the window, silent and yet screaming out loud; her change of expressions with every passing second was making me shiver. She was on top of a building: about to jump off but with a wish to live, expecting that someone will say STOP!

 I could tell everything very clearly from her expressions.

She was stuck between life and death. Death constantly asks her to stand by her decision. While she was looking innocently at life, expecting to get a speck of hope from it. Life stood there staring at her as if it wanted to give her to death, Cold and cruel. Even though a whole lot of experience along with the knowledge of all those years was about to die. No one was aware of how big a loss was on their way. She moves forward; a step, two, three; now only a step away from falling. She stopped there, her expression was changing. Was she smiling?

yes! I could now see hope in her eyes. Those eyes which were holding miles and miles of emptiness inside them were now sparkling. I was confused, I felt like someone had betrayed me. How could she stop at the very last step??  Not that I disliked her decision instead I was wondering what could be so powerful to drag her back to the life she left a while ago. What was it that had separated death from its beloved?

In so as she was happy I decided to leave in sheer astonishment over what I had just witnessed. As I was leaving I turned around to take a final glance at this mysterious girl. I was startled to see her face as white as a vampire. I could no longer recognize her. Her face was changing again. Something was going wrong deep inside her. I could not tell what it was. I tried to approach her and put a hand on her shoulder. Strange! I felt nothing. She was like thin air. Sitting there in front of me but I couldn't touch her. Despite understanding her so well by reading only her expressions, I could not talk to her, could not comfort her. 

I was starting to feel miserable at the sight of such a young soul in so much pain. The pain she could not share but was bound to feel. She had now started sobbing. She was crying, tears all over her cheeks. I froze there; my mind was not stopping and my body was paralyzed. I stood there for GOD knows how long and how long it took me to realize that I was also crying. The painful tears which I saw on her face a while ago were now on my cheeks as well. I felt so sad all of a sudden.

but!

Why was I crying? Why was it that I could now feel her pain? Were we somehow connected? What was I doing here in the first place?

There were only questions without anyone to answer them. I was still standing there with all kinds of thoughts flooding my mind.....