What IF I Die?

Though I was neither truly nor really happy, my life has bought me a great deal of happiness. From bonding with my sister, to my mumma’s unconditional love for me, sometime even my Daddy’s crazy jokes and even my hasty actions with friends.

I have wondered many a times, what would happen if I die?

If I DIE...

Will a memorial or commemorate plaque be made for me? Will graffiti be sprayed on wall? How long will my bequest remain? A year or may be two, or may be each year on the day of my death...

If I die, will people put a pause to their routine and remember me every day? Will my friend live without me?  Will people miss me? Will they pen a memoir or will they compose a tribute song?

I feel I’m too worth enough for it. My death will be no great loss to the world. I will stop being so irritable to those people to whom I’ve been so irksome and those people who found me very difficult to deal with would become less burdened. “Certainly I would be merely reduced to whatsapp status and display pictures...”

ABARNA SREEPREETHI

II M.A. ENGLISH

2014-16