WANDERERS – IX

Though closed eyes sleep, a mind never sleeps no matter how hard one wants. He was tired that day fighting with his thoughts which raged unending war throughout and when he laid down, he committed to put a full stop at-least for the day. But thoughts weren’t to listen and continued to appear in the form of old memories. He had not forgotten anything and ‘may be remembrance causes lots of sweet memories which always come back to haunt, to say that life was better before and you can never go back’ he thought!

‘Thought in thoughts, caught in thoughts, who taught these thoughts to never cease to taunt’…

Not so long ago they had met and had become good friends for long time. They had appreciated each other from the time their eyes met and had hundred thousand things in common between them. She was strikingly beautiful for his eyes and what other eyes saw was not completely the same! Their tastes matched, dislikes were same and likes were common. Someone once said, unintentionally though, ‘you two are not two but one’!

Yet only friendship had prevailed for a long time even though they thought they were much beyond being just friends! What was ‘much beyond’ was not to be discussed or elaborated on until one day when he dared to spill the beans in a weird manner.

Words can’t really express all emotions, emotions are to be felt not told or spoken or enacted he thought and gave up on expressing anything by sheer speech or letter. Letter sometimes conveys in a better manner coz its first thought and then written. But what someone goes through reading each line, each word or a phrase goes missing since much depends on what they conclude at the end of reading it. So he took a third route which made it non-verbal, yet interactive – an online messenger!

Hi…

Hey…

Wassup gal?

Nothing man, feeling sleepy… no work today! Wassup with you?

Wanted to tell you something!

(Oh! Finally, the golden 3 words! But he can’t be so straight!) What’s that? Shoot…

I think I would be a wanderer without you and with you, I would be complete! What do you think?

Hmm, I think you’re right but you could be wrong too!

The answer is with you…

Are you sure you’re not flirting?

A big NO!

And you want my answer here?

Or we can meet outside to see what we feel!

You would know without my answer?

Yes, and you would know too the rest of what I feel but couldn’t say here!

And they felt it, something different from their previous meets. The friendship turned into a new relation that was much different and they meant world to each other from the very next moment. For over 3 years they dated and had very few arguments or fights. It was almost perfect, but only almost!

Thoughts from the past slowly dissolved like salt in water and his mind had accompanied his eyes in the sleep. Relaxed, the mind felt as it did less while asleep…

Continues…