Opaque !

Her's was a strange family. Whenever he visited their home he felt like a bird in a golden cage. Even though all seemed soft and dripping of hospitality, there was an uneasy sense of having intruded into their busy schedule. A signal that you are welcome here but we have things to do. They were all soft spoken and made every effort to make you comfortable yet you could note a zombie like focus in their behavior; an obsession to achieve a preordained objective. During my several visits to their home a clearer sketch of a highly focused family emerged. The Child wanted to please her parents and parents completely focused on their child's success, initially in studies and as a consequence of it later in life. An unreal collaboration on the basis of subtle inferences, queer glances. The effect was there for any one to see. It was strange that there were never direct commands in the girl's household. In fact to a casual observer it would have been impossible to detect the staggering weight of weariness in that house. For instance when mother made a suggestion to the girl," Would you like to study now!" It was an oblique command, "We must study now." She herself wasn't focused on studies but her constant endeavour was to see her parents happy, therefore she studied very hard as this made her parents happy. He heard incredulous people speculating, whatever could be the reason for this successful girl to hang herself? Funny! Now that there was no one to make happy( both parents dead), the girl lost the script and purpose in life.