Sold Drama

As all stories go, the end of a chapter signals the beginning of a new one. A dénouement comes after another.

Each time I set a book down, an unexplainable feeling overwhelms me. There is no goodbye nor farewell to bid, just a simple ending. But always, there is 'till then' to a book that I own. It is a promise to myself that one day someday, I shall visit its pages again.

But it is different with a borrowed book. I do not own it. And so I would have to keep it inside my head in case I would have a need or an urge to revisit the words and lessons learned from its pages. Because sometimes, no matter how frequent I remind and nag myself to get a copy of my own, the thought just slips my mind for some reason.

That is just how it is. It, like most of the simplest and unnoticeable things around us, mirrors life itself and the dramas encapsulated in it. What happened has happened. The lessons are left only to be revisited ever so often.

Books, both owned and loaned, are handed and even sold for one reason or another. But behind such reasons lies a need. And always there lies a value for such needs. From the simplest need of money to the most mundane need of passing the time; but always there would be something left apart from the reasons and needs between the exchanging hands passing the book from one to the other.

I have set a book down just the other night. Today, I realized I have ended a chapter of my life. There may be a passing absence of drama in the days to come. For how long, I cannot tell. Nonetheless, I have opened my pages for a very good friend who is going through way too much spectacle these days. And so tonight, the story of life is on loan for her to pour out all the ink she has.

"My Dear, I will be the margin to guide your ink. I will do my best to read and understand the heroine in you. Let your handwriting lean on each leaf and I promise to keep turning the pages to make a space for all your words. I will be your reader. I will hold firmly but with utmost care the binders of your tale.

Have faith. You are worth reading. And for whatever value you are in dire need of, consider your drama sold."