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Grandma’s Hidden Diary
I always believed I knew everything about my grandmother. She was the kind of woman whose presence felt like a warm blanket — soft, comforting, and familiar. Her laugh echoed in the house like little bells, and her stories, repeated a hundred times, still made me smile like I was hearing them for the first time.
But the day I found her diary, I realized I had only known the surface of a much deeper sea.
It happened during the summer holidays. Grandma had been living with us for years, and her cupboard — packed with old saris, little cloth bags, and memories — was a treasure chest I rarely touched. But that day, while cleaning, something slipped from the upper shelf and fell near my feet. A small brown book, its pages yellowed, tied with a red thread.
Her name wasn’t written on it, but the moment I picked it up, I felt something heavy in my chest — like this book had been waiting for me.
I sat on the floor, the sunlight falling across my lap, and untied the thread. The first page was written in my grandma’s familiar round handwriting:
“If someone finds this someday, I hope they read it with kindness.”
My heartbeat quickened.
Her World Before She Was ‘Grandma’
The diary began when she was sixteen — young, curious, and full of dreams I never knew she had. She wrote about the small village where she grew up, the sound of the river near her house, and how she loved standing on the roof to watch the sun sleep behind the hills.
She wrote about a girl named Meera — not the neighbor aunty Meera I knew, but her childhood best friend. They shared secrets, stole mangoes, and promised never to forget each other. But one line made my throat tighten:
“When Meera moved away, I felt like someone had taken away a piece of my childhood. I cried into my pillow that night.”
I paused.
I had never seen my grandmother cry.
The Love She Never Spoke About
As I turned more pages, something unexpected appeared — a name, over and over again.
“Arun.”
He was not my grandfather.
She wrote about meeting him at the village fair, beside a stall selling sugarcane juice. They never confessed their love in words, but every line felt like a quiet whisper of the heart — stolen glances, shared smiles, the hope of “maybe someday.”
Then came a page where her handwriting trembled slightly:
“Before I could tell him how I felt, my marriage was fixed. I never saw Arun again.”
I stared at those words for a long time.
Grandma had always seemed like someone whose life had been perfectly arranged, neatly wrapped, and tied with a bow. But inside her chest had lived a story she never shared — a story of love that never had a chance.
Her Strength Through Pain
The later pages felt heavier.
She wrote about my grandfather — a good man, but a strictly disciplined one. She tried her best to build a life with him. She wrote about her first child, the joy she felt, and the fear of losing him when he fell sick.
But then there was this line — simple, yet painful:
“Sometimes I feel lonely even when the house is full.”
I swallowed hard.
I had grown up thinking grandma never felt sadness, never felt lost, never wished for anything more. But here she was on the pages — honest, fragile, beautifully human.
The Last Pages
The last few pages were about us — her grandchildren. And when I reached the paragraph written about me, my vision blurred.
“My little one doesn’t know this, but whenever they hug me, a tired piece of my heart becomes whole again.”
My throat tightened.
She had written about how she hid her diary not because she wanted her secrets to stay buried, but because she wanted someone to find it only when they were ready to understand her as a person, not just a grandmother.
A Goodbye I Never Expected
At the very end, in shaky handwriting, she wrote:
“If you are reading this, know that life is not only what people see. We all carry silent stories, unspoken loves, broken dreams, and moments that shape us.
If you ever feel alone, remember — even the strongest hearts have cried quietly at night.”
I closed the diary slowly.
For the first time, I realized that before she was my grandma, she was a girl with dreams… a woman with emotions… a human being who lived a life no one really knew.
That evening, I hugged her a little tighter.
She didn’t ask why.
But she smiled — a soft, knowing smile — like she had been waiting for this moment all her life.
The End...
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