A YEAR BACK
December, in Mumbai, is one of the most pleasant months. The residents of the city get a respite from the humidly oppressive heat without having to bear harsh winters.
On one such day in December 2006, they met around mid-morning at Churchgate station-A casual meeting between friends who hadn't met for a while because of exam schedules. They greeted each other with brilliant smiles, reserved for people who "make your day".
They exchanged initial pleasantries and headed towards Mocha for a relaxed morning of coffee and chatter. Most of the day passed by like a breeze...lunch at Pizzeria....a walk along Marine Drive...well almost...
Come evening, they sat together at the sea-side. Each of them involved in their own thoughts--thoughts of events, other people and life in general. The conversation was just perfect, just enough to suggest company and comfortable enough to allow room for the thoughts.
Suddenly, she glanced at him and caught him staring at her. She held his eye and they looked....just looked at each other.
They only noticed time, when it began trying to veil the intimacy of their gaze, with the dark blue of the night sky.The spell lifted and a chill breeze blew in.
Not a little conscious, she eventually asked him,"Usually when we speak, even when you are miles away from me, over the phone, I always know what exactly is going on in your mind and heart...
But today, you are here sitting, not 1 foot away from me and I'm incapable of understanding anything about you."
He just smiled a mysterious smile and answered.."Thats because I was thinking about you..."
TODAY
A year has passed that day....a year full of turmoil and unpleasant events.....
He calls her up.
Him: "Hi!! Whats up?"
Her: "Hey, nothing, just watching TV..U tell me.."
Him: "How are your studies going on?How was todays paper?"
Her:"Sucked big time...Better try to make up in the next one..What about your work?"
Him:"All great as usual."
Her:"And your amma?"
Him:"She's fine. But I do miss her."
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.(a pause..the kind that you would call pregnant..)
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Her:"I think I should get back to my work now"
Him:"Yea, I guess you should...bye!"
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I guess life goes on....
we haven't seen anything that qualifies the end of the world yet..
5 comments:
it takes just one year for people to change, it sucks how life happens.
Good people should be locked down and kept in a celler or something so that the world can never pollute them.
i hate it when such thing happens.
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lol...if they were locked down...how would we enjoy the good ppl....
lets enjoy them while they last na...and be happy that they happened...
yea...but its sad the way things can flip over so completely within such short spans of time...
cheers!
We do have a tendency to devalue the 4th dimension don't we? How we are utterly incapable of predicting it...
you know what.. even i have gone through this mocha-pizzeria-sunset at marine drive experience...
I guess everyone of us does go thru it...
but cherish these moemories for life ...
Human tendency is to look at things the way they want to rather than to understand the reality...Simply because they choose to deny the reality and hold on to fake happiness...Facts are always contorted to suit the justifications...
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