Sometimes Life Can Be Unforgiving!

Old Lady Fate sits on her rocking chair whole day knitting knits cloth from the millions of yarns sprawled out around her on the ground. Each line of yarn represents the fate of a particular person on earth and she weaves the yarns to bring together the fates of different people to create life stories sprawled out across the impossibly large knits that she knitted them into. Sometimes the patterns knitted across the knits are fantastically wonderful with rainbows or views of a vast blue azure ocean, and sometimes they are just bleak shadows with hues of dark colors, but every time yarns or fate lines are knitted together they will surely tell of a story that is most certainly colorful.

One day she found two lines of yarns that are not yet woven but are already tangled and stuck together, laying on the ground. It was the fate lines of a pair of lover that had never met and had not been knitted into a full story yet, and yet their fates are already intertwined. She can see instances where the yarns were stuck together told of times in their lives where they bumped into each other but not realizing or acknowledging each other. She wanted to untangle the yarns but couldn’t find it in her heart to separate them. So she used the tangled lines of yarns as a single line to knit together with other yarns. She was so excited, as she never did this before and wanted to see the outcome so much.

When she had completed the knits, she took a good look at the whole tapestry. It was uneven with blotches created by the two stuck yarns and the story was not producing a complete pattern that looked balanced, not like her previous works. It was as if the other yarns does not matter in the design and had no meaning at all. The whole tapestry was just a story of the two tangled yarns. She said to herself that this will not work at all and mulled on what to do next.

So she decided against her heart and had determined to change their fates by pulling out just one of the stuck yarns to untangle them. She pulled and freed one of the yarns, which was brightly blue colored, from the whole completed knitted cloth. The overall knits was then left with holes and patches. She examined the holes and found that it was the holes in the lover’s heart left by the lonely emptiness of a love lost. Even with the many other threads of the many other people’s lives interconnected with the lover’s fate and touching the lover’s life, they just can’t fill the emptiness in the lover’s life. Although the knits’ pattern is now somewhat slightly darkly colored without the light blue yarn, it was strangely beautiful in a melancholic way.

So what did the Old Lady Fate do then? She took a long deep breath, sipped her tea, and put the knits riddled with holes aside, and she just started work on a new knits, thinking to herself that “Sometimes… life can just be as unforgiving!”…