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Sometimes, you do not write your story, it writes you. You don't choose your story, it chooses you.<br/><br/>But would you believe it if someone told you, ‘This is Not Your Story’? Would you have the courage to rewrite it?<br/><br/>Shaurya, a CA student. This is his story of following his dreams.<br/><br/>Miraya, an interior designer. This is her story of believing in love.<br/><br/>Anubhav, an aspiring entrepreneur. This is his story of giving life another chance.<br/><br/>After her record-breaking debut novel Everyone Has A Story, Savi Sharma tells a transforming tale of courage, hope and self-discovery.<br/><br/>Prologue:<br/>For a moment, forget who you are. More importantly, leave behind who we are and empty out everything. Instead, just be me.<br/>‘I never wanted anything from life.’<br/>If I say those words, I would be lying. In fact, that would be the biggest lie of my life. I wanted, I have always wanted. I just never could bring the words out. My voice failing, my heart breaking, my soul shattering.<br/>But, what do I really want in life? I don’t know yet. So, I will tell you everything I wanted and still want. Today, I will be true; true to you, and most importantly, true to myself.<br/>I...I...I want to live.<br/>Yes. Not one but many lives in one lifetime. I want to write about myself and everyone I ever met, capture the essence of what it’s like to live. To be able to read everything beautiful and painful ever written and appreciate the experiences captured. All of this hoping to inspire and be inspired.<br/>I want to learn and to teach. Yes, both, because I have had life-defining encounters that need to be shared and understood. Even so, I still have life-changing experiences, lessons to learn.<br/>I want to give away everything I have. Yes, I want that and I want to begin again. To remind myself what it means to start over, to be back at the beginning of one’s life.<br/>I want to eat and dress well, have a nice car and a nicer home. To be rich, famous and appreciated. The little things and the bigger things, I want all of them.<br/>I want to be single and yet attached. Alone yet accompanied. I want to be everything and nothing, all at once!<br/>I want Death to want me. He cannot take me, I want him to come when I have exhausted these lives I want to live and become! I want him to desire the enriched soul I will be!<br/>I want it all; slowly, gradually, definitely. But is this all possible? Can one person be all these things in one lifetime?<br/>I don’t know, but I certainly want to know. |
