It all came crashing down. She finally acknowledged what had been around her for a long time, and had grown in front of her - slowly, steadily, brick by brick, and wall by wall.
She believed that sometimes a talk with a stranger can be a real eye-opener 'cause she thought one who has nothing at stake, speaks one's mind. This guy was less of a stranger though, and more of an acquaintance. But the realization came to her nonetheless as she knew that he stood unbiased, and did not have any hidden agendas. She could not ignore or refute his stand. Well, it wasn't even a stand that he had taken on the issue. It was a fair, simple question asked in a candid manner, that had her dumb founded. The whole situation was like something that led to the aphorism "Know Thyself". Something like what went through Socrates mind, when a person, who didn't know what Socrates looked like, asked him if he knew Socrates well.
She took a while to come up with an answer 'cause each time she attempted to answer she ran into the walls which she had ignored all this while and simply could not find a passage out of the concrete jungle. After about a minute, all she could manage was a mumble - "I don't know. Maybe?". He couldn't hear what she said, but the look on her face was a sign enough for him to understand that he had poked her on a sensitive issue. She brushed the question aside and moved the conversation to another topic. He, being an acquaintance, let it slide. But, the question lingered in her mind, leading to a desire to act. To act on destroying the prison of ignorance.
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