Dalal looked at the mirror… She liked the image it reflected… She knew she wasn’t beautiful… Her hair wasn’t exquisite… Her figure was barely acceptable… She was cute and had a very pretty smile… She wasn’t beautiful but it was the most she could pull off… She re-applied lipstick on her dry lips… She couldn’t take so long… They just announced the arrival of the bride, one of her closest friends… She went back to the breath-taking ballroom… She found her way back to her friends, who were standing in unison awaiting their best friend’s entrance into the most magical stage of her life… It took only a moment to realize that the room wasn’t what was breath taking… It was in fact the bride… Dalal literally placed her hand on her heart to slow down her heart beats… She struggled to keep the waterfalls caged in her small eyes… The bride was fit for a queen…
The bride stood and looked at the people who loved her most, her friends… It was time for those closest to her heart to dance… Dalal looked around and she couldn’t help but see the beauty… Her friends were all beautiful… The light fair ones, the dark ones, the tall ones, the short ones, the petite ones, the chubby ones…The ones with hair short, long, straight, and curly… They all looked amazing… They all had stories… They all had adventures… They were all enjoying the best times of their lives… Some were experiencing love, others were just utilizing every bit of their youth…. Dalal looked back at her life… She was loved by everyone… She was a part of every one of those adventures…
If her friends had successful love stories… She helped make it happen…
If they had good grades… She was a big part of their motivation..
If they were on the wrong path… She was their wake up call…
If they were in trouble… She was their safety…
If they felt despair… She was their hope…
They didn’t owe her anything… She just played a major role in the movie of their lives…
Dalal smiled… and realized that never once in her life, was she the star of the movie of her own life… Why would she be…?
If she herself saw the reflection of an ordinary girl… how could anyone else see her any differently...