As they bid goodbye and proceeded to the carriage adorned with flowers with a sign of ‘newly married’ attached to it, my heart sank with the thought that the ebullient goodbyes would change to a final goodbye, the flowers on the landau would be decorated atop a coffin with a card addressed to ‘mummy’ from her sons William and Harry and the tears of joy would be drowned by the anguished cries of despair with the Princess of Wales embarking on her final journey, leaving her family, her sons and the entire nation mourning behind her.
Strange are the ways of life, I thought, which slowly unfolds the secrets, eventually taking us to the path one is destined for. Good that the future is not revealed, for it enables one to at least cherish the evanescent moments of the present.
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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006 Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
