Hi Readers!! Hope you are having a great weekend! I mean, that World Cup final blew my mind!!
So,
here I am, writing about something that's totally opposite of team spirit &
often touched upon topic of my writing!
Why
don't you go ahead & read it!?
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She sat in the balcony of her small
apartment on a Saturday evening with tea in her hand & a rather plain view
from the 2nd floor. She had an array of options before her. She could read a
book which she had been attempting to finish for 7 months. She could binge
watch some hyped Netflix show & pretend to understand the sci-fi aspects in
it. She could browse Pinterest & Instagram only to watch travel photos from
Netherlands, photos captioned #FriendshipGoals or another celebrity breakup.
She could browse social media & catch up on who's who of people she doesn't
really care about. So, where were the people she cared about? Did these people
even exist? She might care about a million, but she was sure no one cared about
her. Just as sure as she was that there was no truth behind those
#FriendshipGoals photos because nothing really lasts, does it? People come,
people go. There were more ex-people in her life than now-people. That is the
way of life. At any stage, they are never friends; they are contract friends
dressed up as classmates, flatmates, cousins or colleagues. Once that phase is
done, so is the relationship & so are the "goals". She sat
there with her thoughts. She could think about how different it was a few
months earlier, or even a few weeks earlier. You get a degree, you get a job,
you move out of your parents' home to a new city. You get what you always
wanted. She was independent, and yet she was lonely in those hours of a
Saturday night even with a lot of options in front of her.
She thought about the time she could
call up her best friend & she would just know that the call would go on for
hours. And today was the day when she was so sure that they won't even meet
again, let alone have those heartfelt conversations. No matter how strong their
friendship goals were, they ended as college ended.
She thought about all her colleagues at
the place she interned before. That was the time when they didn't miss even a
single Friday night to go out partying. Now that, she got another job, they still
go, without fail. Also, without giving a second thought to invite her. No
matter how much fun those Fridays with colleagues were, they ended as her
internship ended.
She thought about the times when she
was inseparable from her cousin brothers. Every time she was angry at her
parents, she knew she could just go over at her cousin's place & they would
make her laugh until she forgot why she was angry. But then, they grew up, got
jobs & moved to US. No matter how strong their bond was, it ended as their
childhood ended.
She grew up knowing that people are
temporary. People come, people go. Maybe that's why she never fought hard to
make someone stay in her life. She was one woman standing & she enjoyed the
view with no one in sight. At that moment, she had become so strong that
nothing would make her cry & nothing would take her guard down. She had to
be a warrior, all the time, with no breaks.
Until next time,
