5 vignettes that will stay with you

 


🖋️“5 Vignettes That Will Stay With You”

By Faraz Parvez

Professor Dr. (Retired) Arshad Afzal
Retired Faculty Member, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, KSA
(Pseudonym of Professor Dr. Arshad Afzal)

1. The Mirror That Told the Truth

Every morning, the man shaved in front of the same mirror.
But one day, the mirror whispered,

“You lie more than you live.”

Startled, he laughed it off, calling it a hallucination.
But the next day, the mirror showed him—
not his face,
but all the masks he had worn over the years.
The kind smile at funerals.
The rehearsed sorrow at farewells.
The fake applause.
The hollow faith.

He covered the mirror with a cloth.
But the truth was already etched inside his eyes.

2. The Woman Who Refused to Die

She had been declared dead three times.
Once by love.
Once by betrayal.
Once by society.

But she came back.
Each time quieter, stronger, more unreadable.

Now when people see her walking—
Elegant, poised, distant—
They whisper,

“She is not the same.”

And they’re right.
She’s a thousand deaths turned into a sunrise.

3. The Little Boy and the Light Bulb

A poor child in a slum asked his teacher:

“What’s electricity?”

The teacher tried diagrams and definitions.
But the boy pointed at a bulb and said:

“No, what does it feel like to have a light in your house at night?”

That evening, the teacher returned to her apartment.
Switched on the light.
Paused.
Stared.
And cried for the first time in years.

Not for herself—
But for a child who had never known what it meant
to be able to see your dreams after sunset.

4. The Man Who Owned Time

He wore a platinum watch.
Spoke in deadlines.
Lived by the clock.

He missed weddings, births, funerals—
But never a meeting.

At 78, he sat alone, staring at an empty house.
The walls echoed silence.
The clock still ticked.
His expensive watch still shone.
But time…
no longer belonged to him.

5. The Last Message on the Wall

In a ruined city, bombed to dust,
A child wrote with charcoal on a fallen wall:

“I wanted to be a doctor. Now I’m just dust.”

A journalist captured the image.
It went viral.
Celebrities cried.
Donations poured in.

But the child?
He was already gone.

Sometimes,
we don’t read the truth until it’s already too late.

Final Thoughts

In a world that spins too fast,
These fragments remind us—
That every face holds a story.
Every silence hides a storm.
Every truth is waiting
to be heard,
to be held,
to be felt.

🕊️ Keep feeling. Keep reflecting. Keep visiting.

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