Week 12 Storytelling: Savitri & Satyavan

Why can I not find someone to love me for me. I have been alone for so long. I lay in my bed and I long for someone to hold me tight and for someone to kiss me. I have so much love to give but absolutely no one to give it to. I am just waiting for that day that that perfect man comes into my life and I know that he is the one. I don’t want to wait forever, but I know that I am not meant to be alone my entire life. I am meant to have a fulfilling life. I do not think that my life was meant to be lived alone and lonely my entire life. Life is supposed to shared with the ones you love. I am oh so ready, but until then it is just a waiting game.

All of the men that have presented to me have not loved me or they have not been good to me. I know that nothing is wrong with me. Maybe if I go search for the right man that I will find him in places that I haven’t been before.

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Savitri ended up falling in love with Satyavan. Satyavan was a wonderful man but he only had on more year to live. Even though Savitri knew this she knew that she wanted to marry him because she had fallen in love with him. Satyavan was her one true love that she had been longing and yearning for. She had finally found the one man that was going to take care of her. She was also going to do her best to take care of him as well. No matter if she had a short amount of time with him she was going to take advantage and love every second she had with him. 

After one year Satyavan the time was up and Savitri was truly sad and depressed. However, she was very thankful for the time that she had. She had been longing and wanting to find her soul mate for so long and she did in fact find her soul mate in Satyavan. Even though it was for just a short amount of time it was the best year of her life. She felt as if she lived the most during that one year and she wouldn’t change it for the world.

Savitri & Satyavan

Bibliography: Narayan, R.J. (1978). The Mahabharata

Author's Note: I decided to write about Savitri and Satyavan but as the beginning it was so saddening because Savitri was so sad and had been longing so long for a husband. I thought that it was great story that true love really conquered all. It was truly sad that she only got one year with Satyavan , however she made the most of that one year and that is what matters. 

Week 12: Reading Diary B: The Lotus Flowers

I really enjoyed the second part of these weeks readings when it told about the Pandavas travels to Mount Kailasa. During the times of their travels they end up disturbing the silence at Rishava’s mountain. Weird thing is that it ends up attacking them. White lotus end up floating down to earth and Draupadi ends up wanting the lotus. In the end, Bhima finds the lotus flowers. Pretty interesting read this week with the lotus flowers.

Bhima, Draupadi, and the Lotus Flowers 

Week 12 Reading Diary A: The Dice Games

I enjoyed reading this weeks reading about the Dice games. I really think that it was foolish that Nala and Yudihishthira gambled absolutely everything that they had. I couldn’t imagine losing everything to a silly dice game! I also think that it is extremely sad that Yudhistira loses his wife because he bets on her as well. I would be furious if my husband bet on me on some goofy dice game.

At the end of the story Nala wins  the game and wins the Kingdom back.

Nala playing dice