SHOOTING STAR

Sharad K. Srivastava
2 min readJul 16, 2020
somewhere in Himalays
somewhere in Himalayas’

“MAKE A WISH”

Ever made a wish looking at that beautiful falling star?? We all do. Ever thought about how selfish we are to wish for something which is falling? It’s falling, alone, falling from his own sky. We never wish for him to go back to his own world. Instead, we ask for ourselves only. How selfish no?

Human nature I guess. We only seek our own happiness. We do not care if the other person is broken, or falling. We think of ourselves only. Our smile, our wishes, that’s all matter to us. And you know we all have a shooting star in our life. Every one of us. Just like Harry to Ron, Augustus to Hazel, or Kabir to Naina. But we have no idea if our shooting star is falling itself. Because they never show and we never ask. We never bother, maybe? We see a smile on them always. It’s just like we wish, they complete. No complaints no demands. How selflessly they live for others, breath for others, holding their broken pieces to themselves only. They never let us fall. They know the real pain of falling from your own happiness. Your own world where you belong yet lost. A happiness that you deserve yet never get it. They know how painful it is to hide everything from people and say “i am fine”. Or how worse it feels when no one checks on you that you are alive or dead or just existing. They know how those broken pieces pinch them all the time and how it hurts.

So yes, sometimes we do not know a hell lot of things. We do not see the screams behind someone’s beautiful smile, or someone’s so-called pretty life. We do not realize or never try to realize how broken someone can be. We fail to understand them we fail to hear their cry, we fail to see their tears. We fail to see the pain of our shooting stars. They keep shining and then…fall one day from our sky, just like that. Without anyone realizing, noticing. Without anyone trying to save them!

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Sharad K. Srivastava

Researcher, Technocrat, Entrepreneur // Thinker-Executor, Participant-Observer, Philosopher-Practitioner // Interested in: India, Politics, & Social Development