Since the childhood, most of the times we used to be prompted and asked by our parents to change our bad habits and grow as a human, otherwise in the house next door live a ghost who takes the children with him, or perhaps most of us must have also heard about that ugly old witch who uses her broom to fly down to places and take the children away with her... and we used to get horrified by those stories... but for obvious reasons, when we grew up we never ever believed them... and in fact many of us definitely have laughed up on the stories of spirits... whether we are a firm believer of theism or we are atheist, but when it comes to spirits, ghosts, and these type of illusionistic creatures we certainly never seems to be interested....
I too was like this until this day of my life when I began to believe up on everything which I can't see directly... this experience has changed me, and has changed my life...
I was posted to this department of office just recently and I wasn't much aware of the work and the atmosphere of this place... the only thing needed then was an experience of this place, as experience is something which has its own importance... but the kind of vibes I was getting from here weren't too good and weren't bad either... they were quiet strange, quiet weird... but I thought as long as I am dedicated towards my work, there isn't any stopping back for me which could hinder or become barriers in the path of my growth... but as we say, sometimes despite best of your efforts put in, destiny has its own choice...
So, I got a workplace besides which there was a vacant seat... I asked many of my colleagues about who sits there, but to no avail... many preferred not to speak regarding this... and whenever I tried to ask that same question again, I was welcomed with an infinite series of silence... and when you encounter such things, you tends to be more curious to know the reason for the unending smile and fluctuating behaviours of people.... same thing happened with me and I became more and more curious to know this... and still I tried asking this question from colleagues who was working here for a longer period of time, but nobody preferred to answer...
One day...I was waiting to get a loner time from a longer period in the office and my wish came true... this day most of the people left early and I was kind of alone at the office... I saw that empty chair and I certainly didn't know which driving force attracted me towards that empty chair and the emptiness surrounded by it... I went to the chair and sat on it... I switched on the system which was on that desk and tried to open the drawer... system didn't open up... and the drawer was somehow stuck in between the passage of it... I tried hard and it got opened... I saw a pearl chain with a heart pendant attached with it... It was going bizarrely mysterious... It was giving a feel which was making me indulge at such deep intensity that it was hard to resist thinking of the chain and the story which could have related to it... I restricted my soul from going deeper into it... It was influencing my imaginative powers and thoughts deeply... but thoughts didn't stop coming and the mind was constantly in the process of guessing and analysing the possible stories... Many days went by facing the same situations... and....
ONE FINE DAY...
I came early to the office and before the office could have begun with the work, entered a girl wearing the colour of peace... sober in her style and confident in her attitude... I was flattered and I am sure most of my colleagues would have been... I was standing near my desk when she walked straight and sat on the desk next to me... At that moment I was full of pride and was considering myself lucky enough that someone so adorable sat next to me... But, it was quite strange that nobody from the office came to introduce her... A lot of time got wasted in thinking how to initiate the interaction... but somehow I managed to hit it off with the conversation... somehow, my pen fell off the desk and it fell near to her chair, so I bent down to pick it up but she gave it to me before I could pick it...
Me: Thank you...
She: You are welcome...
Me: Hi... are you new here?
She: No... I have been working here for more than two years now... are you new here?
Me: Yes... I have been transferred here from the other branch... were you on a leave all these past days?
She: oh yes... I was having holidays for some days now and have joined back today itself... well, welcome to board... I am really happy that finally someone is there to accompany...
Me: (blush) (silence) accompany? C'mon, here you must have sat with other people also... aren't you? After all people are so good and helpful here...
She: (prefers to be silent) "everything which glitters as gold is not gold"... you will get to know about everyone here gradually... till that time don't form opinions regarding anyone... and by the way the desk on which you are seating is also mine...
(She seemed to be so disappointed and dejected as if she had faced something so bad here that it was hard for her to gulp it down...)
Me: okay... that means this pearl chain is yours? Is it?
She: Yes... It's mine... I was aware that you must be having it...
Me: how would you know it?
She: (smile) I was on holiday and that too for longer period of time... In between these days, no one could ever open that drawer... and now you are sitting on this desk and the desk's drawer is open... It indicates that you are the only one who can have its possession... and it seems you like it...
Me: yes... It is very good.... In fact I like the chain as well as the person behind it....
She: hmmm.... but still you don't know me more?
Me: this is the truth but we are going on a lunch together today... aren't we? I hope I will be getting a lot of chances to prove to you that each and every person or more precisely every other guy is not the same...
She: Lunch... No, not for lunch... let's see when we can go and where we can go...!!!
Throughout our interaction there was something mysterious which I couldn't figure out in her... but that was not all... her way of glancing at me while I was holding that chain was drawing suspicions in me... So, it happened for a couple of days and every time I tried to hold the chain, I found her staring at me like anything.... It seemed as if there was some sort of link between the chain and me but still she had been dissolving a lot more under herself.... Every time I held it, her eyes used to get bigger and facial expressions used to change rapidly... Like any other guy, I also took it very lightly and thought of it as a genuine behaviour...
As we leap ahead with the time in future, our interactions turned into meetings and meetings into the selfless bond called love... It was selfless for me... but how much it was on the other side was yet to be known... but living in present, I was happy with whatever happened in life at that point of time...
We used to leave at the same time for home after the office... all these past days, there was one more reason for me to get tensed... Whenever I used to go with her talking all the while with her, people used to stare at me as if I was talking to myself... these things used to hit me off so hardly that often I tried to confront some of them to ask the reason for this kind of their behaviour but as she used to be with me at that point of time then, so I had to drop the anger down often... And,
ONE FINE EVENING...
After the office, we were out there walking in the dark under the silence of the night... I had come on my car that day... walking down the aisle I asked to drop her home but she refused to come... When I forced her, she got agreed... I was happy to think that I will get to see her home and to know her even more closely... (I was waiting for this to happen, as I have also been warned by some of the other colleagues working at the office about my indifferent behaviour of talking with self and also I had heard people gossiping in the office premises about me... So it was necessary for me to know the truth)...
She sat next to me... I switched on the ignition of the car... We began to move... She was smiling and so does I... I asked her to tell the road to follow to reach her home... and then she said that she wants to go on a long drive in the starry night... She wished to see the night in the open... It gave a reflection of both the sides of coin... Where on one side were her innocence and our love and on the other were the people critical claims which were driving me crazy for some days... The only thing which was there hovering over my mind was if I have got the true partner for life or have I got the real lifelong disease to fight with... The answer was hard to find... but I was determined to know the answer in any conditions...
So, I just took the turn on a different side of the T-point which leaded to a long aisle of journey of life... A JOURNEY ON ROAD...
Would this road leads to a new begining... Would this dusk bring a fresh dawn or would it bring more darkness in life... !!! check out soon....
...TO BE CONTINUED...
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