Calling Lifeline

By Preeti Kaur Bharj

Tring Tring", the phone rang thrice before someone picked up. "Thank you for calling Lifeline, I am Sympathy, how may I help you today? ", someone said from the other side, a soft-spoken voice, resonated worry, small gesture of kindness, a readiness to make you feel important in a world where you are considered lucky if you have three meals a day, you are bound to be happy and

you cannot say otherwise, you survive and you shut up, nobody has the time or ear to listen to your champagne problems anymore. However, these people are designed in such a way to listen to any of your "how do you do? " answers with an open-minded mentality, but it's all an act, to make you feel appreciated so you don't do what I was about to, what I didn't want to do, so I said, " I want to die..."

By Preeti Kaur Bharj