Sunshine and calm sound of the leaves waving her ears as the view from the London city bids her happiness.
Ms. Meariya in her mind trying to imitate in London English accent the greeting sentence, which she will say to her boss at work place.
Meariya is always thinking about London- what they eat, how they dress up for winter, news about Buckingham Palace, are dogs allowed in London central park (as she is found of dogs) and always she sends several job applications in a day to many companies situated in London, so that if she gets a job in her dream city then that will be her happiest moment. Sometime she dreams herself wearing the crown of London.
Her London aspiration and fantasy were not golden times in her present reality life. She is facing trouble in her work where anytime; she can be expelled due to decline in business activity of the company where she is working. And she doesn’t have a valid visa to reside as she did not renew due to financial constraint and the only thing, she is hoping that the police will not catch her during the periodically checking held across the city to forbid illegal workers and if caught, she should exit the country and besides she is a widow with 2 kids depending on her.
Every day she is in fear as mighty as the Big Ben clock in London, she doesn’t know what to do and is waiting for something special to happen in her life like the Sherlock Holmes movies where the end is always beautiful.
One Fateful Evening, after work Meariya crossed the half-shaded zebra crossing road to take out some vegetable for dinner and suddenly from behind a hard bass sound plunged her ears.
She turned around and saw police guards surrounded the area and started to inspect for illegal work permit workers, she was shattered and in pain and with shiver she said “ I don’t have Visa Sir” and with all the nervous from her mouth somehow the London English accent came out adding the words to the police officer’s “I beg your pardon, can u save me”
The police with ignorance ordered her to sit inside the police minivan, Meariya understood that this is the end of everything and when she gazed up the sky and saw the bright sunshine lite up the sky and wondered why here down for her it’s not bright - questioning the Sun.
She was locked up in jail and the cell was dark and creepy like the background set of Dracula movies shot in London.
One of the officers informed her that we will deport you from our country and you won’t be able to return back to this country ever again.
Meariya started sobbing in tears and suddenly rushed her mind of her kids, how they will eat? how will I pay their school fees? She understood that her life is not colorful like the London city beauty.
After all the crying and tension, she just relaxed and wide opened her eyes and suddenly noticed beside her cell there was one lady siting with bowing her head down and was in remorse
2 hrs. of silence swept the cell and then she heard the sound of a British accent talking, Meariya with energy aroused thinking it is dream but was not, eventually it was the lady beside her cell, she was arrested for drunk driving as lately she was having divorce with her husband and she hold an ID card marked as British Embassy - Office Bearers
Meariya was thrilled to identify that the lady was from Britian and she was so happy that she almost forgot that she was imprisoned in the cell and soon going to get deported, Meariya practiced her British English accent in her mind and with confident she went near to the corner side of the cell and spoked “how lovely day it is, even though we are in jail” and the lady with silence looked at her and within seconds burst into laughter and said “bloody hell”
Soon meariya spoke about Britain and especially London city, the lady was amazed with the vast knowledge meariya had for Britain country and at last meariya opened up her fate sadly and informed that she will be soon exiting for this county.
After hearing everything the lady told to meariya “I admire the interest you have in our country”and quoted “London attracts around 30 million visitors from around the world every year”
And asked, “are you willing to work with us as one of the backend staff for foreign envoy arriving in London and you will get a valid work visa for his job “
A few weeks later ………
London City as usually busy with pedestrian and a mid-lady wearing Burberry London top and jean walking through the pathway, holding her dog and as she stopped a second and looked at her valid work visa holding in her hand covered with the ray of bright sunshine coming from the sky, meariya smiled and faded through the London underground subway.
Sun gives us strong radiant light and it never stops its duty and when night comes its nowhere to see but again the next morning sun shines up…..never stop dreaming and doing ..everyday is a good day as long as we are alive
