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    Lost in Cliché
    Lost in Cliché
    Lost in Cliché
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    Lost in Cliché

    By Sonia Bascos Jethani

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    Time stops at each defining moment for you to be able to grasp every detail exactly as it happens. This coming of age tale is set within the confines of Jaimey's memories from her wedding engagement at eight to her escape from mental imprisonment in her 20's, and the burgeoning discovery of the meaning of friendship and sexuality in between.
    What begins as a casual job interview for a writing position leads Jaimey and Maren to an epic tale of truth, the difficult realities of life, and the genuine interchangeability of God and Love. When youre Lost in Clich as the beholder, you find God in Love as the performer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 10, 2012
    ISBN9781468546880
    Lost in Cliché
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    Sonia Bascos Jethani

    If you ever find her quiet in a crowded room, it’s not because she’s shy or introverted. It’s because something noteworthy is happening and she’s planning on using it as fodder in her next book. With a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA in International Business, one would think that this half Indian-half Filipina woman was running towards the corporate life. But after a couple of years in banking and a lifetime in the family business, she had broken free of all ties and to the dismay of the people she’d left behind, set off on a self-proclaimed epic journey of discovery. Her eyes were set to the East; for although progress was in the other direction, her idea of success revolved around its source. After all, it's nearly impossible to find what’s mising without a little backtracking. When the issue of marriage came up, as it always does at her age, Sonia had said that if she was to have a child, the boy or girl would be named Genesis. But just as a blind man cannot lead another blind man to wisdom, she was determined to learn what the world had to teach so that when the time came, she would be well-equipped. Revelations for Genesis is her first book that journals her life growing up in California, her travels to Europe and Asia, and her experiences as she made her way to her current home in New York.

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      Lost in Cliché - Sonia Bascos Jethani

      © 2012 by Sonia Bascos Jethani. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 01/21/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-4687-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-4688-0 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012901298

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      CHAPTER 7

      CHAPTER 8

      CHAPTER 1

      I was invited to a Skype interview with Maren Rand, an Editor in Chief of Brandon House Publishing in New York for a position as a cultural events columnist. What had originally been scheduled as a one hour casual conversation had turned into months’ worth of religiously appointed story-telling sessions.

      I must admit that I wasn’t completely truthful with Maren at first. As time went on however, I was no longer able to help myself.

      MAREN:   What word do you hate to use the most and why?

      JAIMEY:   Love, because it’s so ridiculously overused that it’s lost its meaning.

      MAREN:   Here’s an off topic question: have you ever been… well… let me rephrase that. Have you ever experienced that ‘lost meaning’?

      JAIMEY:   I think so. No. Well, I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t know.

      MAREN:   Let’s try to make sense of this confusion shall we? Expand on it. I’d like to hear how good a commentary you can be. And I’ll have none of that crap about ‘I love art and my mom.’ Give me the good stuff.

      JAIMEY:   Well, there are many confusing tales revolving around that subject matter. I’ve never really reflected on them long enough to make sense of them. Whatever happened, happened. Who cares, you know?

      MAREN:   Fair enough. Let’s reflect. Tell me the story of your first one.

      JAIMEY:   It’s not really much of a story. I really didn’t even know the person. I’d been in other relationships before. But in all of them, I’d always kept my… .

      MAREN:   Your what?

      JAIMEY:   I don’t know how to describe it.

      MAREN:   Try

      JAIMEY:   It was as if I was a ghost. I would force my consciousness to break away from my body to escape the experience. And I’d float above myself and whomever it was that I was involved with at the time and observe what was happening, in this utterly utopic feeling of relief.

      MAREN:   Wow, they must have been bad lovers.

      JAIMEY:   Physically? No. I dated eye candies. And come to think of it, they were all quite the sensitive individuals. I suppose it was just me. I never allowed myself to reciprocate. I mean I liked them. But love? I don’t know. Ugh. Did I just say the word? I did, didn’t I? See, I even HATE saying it. It means nothing. It has no substance left.

      Anyway, because I never expressed my acknowledgement to their feelings towards me, they simply grew cold and eventually broke it off.

      MAREN:   What made you even have these relationships then?

      JAIMEY:   What do you mean?

      MAREN:   You seem like the kind of person who is in touch with your feelings. Am I correct? I mean, you are a writer. Most writers are. But if you numb yourself from affection and intimacy, why even do it?

      JAIMEY:   Good question. I suppose the best answer is simply that I wanted to feel normal—in the beginning, at least. I’d grown up thinking that it was the thing to do. You go to school, make friends, go to college, work; somewhere in the middle, you meet someone interested in you and you get married, have kids, retire and die.

      MAREN:   Your voice turned into a monotone just now. That’s interesting. So, who was the guy?

      JAIMEY:   What? Is it that obvious?

      MAREN:   I’m a woman. I know. Tell me about him. Wait. What time is it? I have to go but what’s your schedule like tomorrow? I’d like to call you back on a second interview. And then you can tell me about him.

      JAIMEY:   Great! How about the same time?

      MAREN:   Yes, that’s perfect. Well, Jaimey I’m very excited about this so far. Keep it going. You may have a place with us, yet.

      JAIMEY:   Thank you. I’ll talk to you tomorrow, Maren.

      MAREN:   Bye, Bye.

      CHAPTER 2

      I was getting a bit skeptical about this whole scenario. If she did indeed want to see how I was with commentary, wasn’t what I’d told her yesterday enough? Why would anyone be interested in my boring love life? I went along with it, however. I hated the subject that she’d brought up so I tried to cut it short by brushing it off as unimportant. Besides, how the hell am I supposed to know what love is? I’m single: didn’t that say something? Still, I kept at it to keep her satisfied. I’d have killed for this job.

      MAREN:   Yes, so where were we? Ah! You were going to tell me about the guy who made you numb to the world.

      JAIMEY:   I wasn’t numb to the world-just relationships-just love. It’s Cliché. I wasn’t ever in love. I was in… cliché.

      MAREN:   What else is there though, but love?

      JAIMEY:   Really? You don’t know?

      MAREN:   Oh I know there are a lot in hindsight. But you’re so young. There shouldn’t be anything else.

      JAIMEY:   You’d be surprised. In fact, quite possibly the main reason why I felt the need to stay at an arm’s length away from everyone was because I wanted freedom.

      MAREN:   What were you a prisoner to?

      JAIMEY:   Tradition. I was born and bred as the Asian stepford wife. And after college, I was ripe for the picking. Suitors would schedule appointments with my parents to come and see me for an interview. I’d cook them dinner to show that I’d be capable to feed my husband and our kids. My mom would dress me up in all my fineries and hang her jewelries all over my body as if I it was a store front display case.

      MAREN:   You’re talking about arranged marriage.

      JAIMEY:   Yes. I had a designated husband at 8.

      MAREN:   So why the suitors?

      JAIMEY:   He didn’t like what he saw when he came over so the parents backed off.

      MAREN:   Harsh.

      JAIMEY:   Not really. I kinda’ had a hand in it. I’d made up some bullshit about me being pregnant to make him not like me. And I’m relieved that it worked. I didn’t want to get married at all. This husband thing had been looming over my head like a dark cloud ever since I could remember. My entire life was focused on it. I couldn’t breathe.

      MAREN:   I see why freedom is so important to you.

      JAIMEY:   Indeed, it has always been the driving force.

      MAREN:   So back to this guy…

      JAIMEY:   Gabriel.

      MAREN:   Tell me about him.

      JAIMEY:   We’d grown up together. I was a sheltered child. I couldn’t date. Hell, my dad wouldn’t let me watch Disney movies that involved kissing. They’d let me hang out with Gabe because his parents were very close friends with my mom. In fact, when they’d finally moved to America in the late 90’s, they came to live with us. My parents rented one of the extra bedrooms to them. Gabe would come every year or so for a visit but he went to school in the Philippines. And every summer, we would have month-long vacations back there.

      Gabe and I were inseparable. Of course being so young, we didn’t

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