A Story Within A Story!

In the era of 1950, there was another world about books and library. Isabella was an avid reader. She loved to spend time in the library. Her only dream was to write a novel some day. She loved to read fiction, mainly and classics were her favorite. Isabella lived a life with simplicity. She and her mother lived a quite peaceful life. Her days were different from her friends. There were no friends of her. It was because of her reading habits. At her age, others were busy with their household works and gossips. She had no complains about that though!

The librarian was an old man. He liked Isa; he could understand her love for books. So the librarian asked her help for making catalogues. While making catalogues she found that one small book named, “To the Horizon’’. It was a novel but actually it was published a few years. The librarian said it was only published for once. The book is about human and human nature. It talked about various shades of mind. Isabella thrilled by reading it. Somehow she felt accepted by the society. The author had written about people who generally self-contained and need no companion as such! Isa wanted to thank him for giving her this feeling. From then she felt very special.

Isa asked to the librarian about the author, he replied that no one ever saw him as this book never became so popular and published for once! The librarian suggested her to write a letter to the author because there was the address written behind the book cover.

Isabella wrote the letter and tried to tell everything she felt. She was hopeful for a reply. One month left. No reply came from him. The address she had given to this library. One morning when Isa entered into the library the librarian handed over a letter to her. Isa just burst out with happiness. They both read the letter. The author said, it took some time to reply a letter because it was hard to believe that somebody actually liked his thoughts and wanted to meet him. So he took some moments to write back to Isa and finally he agreed to meet her! Isa and the librarian both were super excited for this whole thing.

Isa was ready to meet him. They had decided that they would meet near the long park, and he would have his book in his hand and that’s how she could recognize him.

She found him sitting on the bench. Isa quietly sat beside the author. He looked at her and said, “Hello Isabella, what are you feeling now?” Isa looked at his eyes and shocked, he was blind. She thought that what it felt like to be the blind guy who helped everyone to understand the various aspects of the human. It was strange! A feeling that she never wanted to feel.

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