A windy tale

A serene feeling – which grips every heart, sometime, someday; the aura of which slides along the jugular vein; increasing the velocity of flowing emotions concentrated at a particular direction; due to which the whole world seems beautiful, is - the chimerical LOVE. No sarcasm, no irony. The following lines are all about a small statement. Read along to check it out.

You must have come across atleast one Affair D’amour in your life. One such story was with our Miss. Disappointed (Ms. D). Falling in love is easy, keeping it is all that matters. Ms. D, sitting near a window, in the memory of her beloved(who left her midway), wrote on a piece of paper that sentence which had changed her life then – “I LOVE YOU”. The memoirs flashed in front of her sobbing eyes like a camera roll, tears rolled down her cheeks, and eyes finally gave up blinking settling down calmly. Ms. D fell sound asleep. The air outside had some other purport that Saturday night. The wind came in like a careless whisper, took the parch of paper along with it, kissing Ms. D cold. This parch of paper flows across many lives. How it embraces different souls, follows next.

The paper reaches a children’s park and lands on a playing swing the following Sunday morning. A kid rests his hand on it and gazes at it. No idea as to what’s written, bothers least, his playful heart remains untouched by the most powerful emotion of this universe. Unknowingly, he tucks it in his pocket and forgets.

One – Done!

The paper finds itself in the hands, which have a daily feast with water and detergent. The maid at the boy’s place ignores it as something extremely unimportant coz it’s completely non-understandable to her. Quite fair. Throws it away in the dustbin.

Two – Shoo!

Next Monday morning, the paper struggled itself to get out of the garbage and the gentle wind takes it to its next destination – a construction site. The toiling hands didn’t notice this bit of paper.

Three – lee!


The breeze flew it by the roadside on Tuesday. A school-going girl(teenager) sees it. Picks it up, reads it. Gets lost in the memory of her classmate whom she had a crush on. But the pensive exam makes her rush towards the bus-stop while the paper slips from her hand in dismay.

Four – sore!

The winking Wednesday finds the parch of paper among the creative people. A dance teacher, while coming to her class happens to put a glance over this paper. The written matter instigates a beautiful story in her mind. The mudras in combination with abhinaya put up a great show for her.

Five – Life!


The clever wind took the paper down the streets on the thundering Thursday. A lovely couple finds it nearby, however, it doesn’t get any attention as the two souls were already experiencing the magic of it.

Six – Fix!

The un-futuristic paper then reaches a table by which a beautiful girl was sitting deep in her thoughts. Her lonely heart had no effect of the three mesmerising words.

Seven – Raven!

The freaking Friday found its solitaire with a 75 year old heart along with the paper by a shore side. The old man, who was thinking of his better-half, was cajoled to rewind his happier times. He was wondering why she left him alone in this world 50 years back. Flashes of his entire life came in front of his eyes. Wished if she were alive. The settling sun indicated his leaving time. Giving his weak bones enough strength to carry his soul to the destination house, he grabbed the stick and strolled away, leaving the bit of paper aside.

Passing through so many genre of people, touching many hearts, alike, the small bit of paper with three whimsical words “I LOVE YOU” was lying beside the shore exactly one week later, same day. After some time, the note slipped into water...got wet.....
Love is everywhere. The essence is felt every moment. Just it needs is – a pure heart to feel it and a pure mind to spread it.

The Inexplicable

Sitting calmly; before sleep; thinking about self, people around who matter in life, things which add meaning to my existence ...etc,etc. Feels good to be back. It’s been long since I held a pen and paper to express my thoughts. A feeling of deja vu creeps in at this moment. Such an abstraction of human mind creates a sense of belongingness to everything. Strange, but true!
Life has changed a lot. There was a time when I didn’t feel the need to explain myself to people. Everything used to be self-explanatory. There used to be a plain talk, that talk used to go manifolds and end up with a feel-good factor having a hidden message saying – Enjoy this moment, it won’t return. This is it! At that point in time, never gave a thought about how would life be after this, without such things, people, situations. May be, never felt the need to.
And now I am. Altogether in a different environment. New people, surroundings, way of reciprocating. World is very different. Coming out of one’s shell makes the person realize the reality. The outside world is not as I perceived it to be. Reason may be hidden in the fact that I was never exposed to it earlier. People are different, the way each person thinks is different. It becomes difficult to make a consensus. Showing dislikeness is acceptable. Every individual has the right to expression. If it tends to create rift among people, it’s better to keep it to self. This applies to certain situations as well wherein clearing out matters is not possible. And where there is a hope of doing so, people take it otherwise. Also, there is no dearth of “Doubting Thomas’s” around, either.
That was all about natural behaviour of people which is invincible.
Next comes self analysis.
Change of state of mind has become frequent these days. Thinking about a thing links to another one which sometimes brings a curve across my face. It makes me feel good walking down the memory lane. It even happened once when I was supposed to call someone and after placing the call I suddenly realized that it was a wrong dial. Happens. It’s also difficult to make people understand what you think. If it’s not properly conveyed, the whole thing gets messy. People who are sycophant are a challenge to handle. I simply hate those who don’t even care if a known person is passing by(it’s taken if you haven’t noticed the person). An acknowledgement always makes you aware of the fact that a certain person is connected to you in some way. Body-language plays a key role in passing the right message. No offence to people who don’t agree with the above.
Now comes the generalisation of the whole story.
A man is all alone. Friends, acquaintances, business-connections are attributes which/who help us lead our lives in a simpler way. Of course, priorities differ and they should, in fact. Facing the obstacles boldly and finding a solution is the real test. Expect little, give much. Care a damn about the person who feels the same for you(there is hardly anyone if you are genuine ;) conditions apply...). Try to avoid negative thoughts, people. Feel the dextrous. Think rational, be real. That’s the key. I’m still trying to explore the mystries of the world. I’m glad that I’ve come across some good souls in this expedition. Meeting them, adds flavour to life. This journey is becoming interesting day-by-day. Hope it continues likewise. Feel free to share and add more if you’ve experienced such things in your lives too. Now, it feels great being myself. Back in ation. Watch out this space for more!!! Till then, keep smiling.