Fiction or non-fiction, you decide!
Actually, this is a question I had been asked by a number of people. They read the book and weren’t sure. The answer is still — you decide. Isn’t life a glorious admix of both? Isn’t some reality constricted to our imagination, and some excluded to protect yourself from the vicissitudes of everyday trials and tribulations?
Perhaps it is just objective and subjective. Like the duality of Being and Becoming?
Just as my life, the book is both. It certainly is based on truth, or at least the truth as I saw it. Truth is a subjective affair, just as beauty, it is in the eyes of the beholder. You are the truth, as am I, as is everyone within the realm of their private Universes. After all, we are gods and the realities we create are real to us, whatever others may think.
And this brings us to The GATE.
The world my mother created was so powerful, so contagious, that it seemed to infect, or perhaps to enchant, most people who met her. Although her experiences during the WW2 were more than most of us would endure in an entire lifetime, and other trials and tribulations honed her will to the resilience of invincible steel, the face she presented to the world was always full of inner bliss, seldom seen in mere mortals.
The book will explain.
Perhaps, like the biblical Job, she insisted that no matter what life threw at you, your duty was to maintain equilibrium and acceptance. She’d smile at anyone for as long as it took to see its reflection in the other person’s eyes. That, in the Institute where she’d spent the last years of her life, it seemed was her job. Her duty? She insisted that we were brought to this world to have fun, to be filled with joy, to experience at least the foretaste of Heaven.
This was evident till her very last breath.
She’d done her job. She enhanced the Universe by her very presence. By her disposition. By her indestructible faith.
That is how she lived.
That is how she left her body.
Still smiling.
A fictionalized biography
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