A figment of my fantasy.
Oh, so this is what they call 'Serendipity'! I know, finally.
However, I have a few regrets today. For instance, I don’t particularly love your age.
I wish I had met you earlier, in my growing up years. Rather, yours.
When you were crass. When you were as restless as i. When you had many ill defined goals yourself. When you were inarticulate. When you had the audacity to climb up to the top of the car in the middle of the night.
When you were thinner. When you wore better clothes to try and grab attention. When you wanted to be hip. When u were passionate about rebellion.
When you were still learning to drive the car.When you would have been advantorous enough to take risks with the twists and turns on the road. When you smoked your first. When you still ate only Indian cuisines and enjoyed eating with your hands in an uncouth fashion.
When you were angry and irritable. When you were impatient.
When you hurt yourself playing cricket every second day. When you were caught shop lifting. When you kissed the first time. When you watched those movies, and read those magazines.
When you fancied shocking people with weird stories about your escapades. When you wrote the ridiculous rhyming poetry. When you weren’t a good listener.
When you lost you first love, when you first cut your fingers cooking.
You would have laughed at my jokes then.Uncontrollably.And found my word play exciting. And fallen head over heals for me.
And I would have put some sense into your head.
And had the last laugh. But Alas!!
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But alas!
There is a texture of cheerfullness in this post which u seemed to have lost lately. Glad at the way this post is written.
anon - U cud have said more!
Avi -> i guess its a compliment :) And yes,art reflects life.I think there is a texture of cheerfulnes in my life these days.
samudraa.......i love this post....i like the way u juxtapose the different things....esp the losing first love and cutting fingers while cooking and all....and all!!:)now i understand y u made the number of phone calls tht u did!!-ashwini
o i forgot to add that ....i thot i was crazy for wanting to own everything even the past of the one i love....but i guess that its only human!!and im glad tht u wrote abt this...:)
lovely Ash,
Thanks for giving shape to that ramdom thought by summarising it as "wanting to own everything including the past",didnt think on those lines.
and i made those frantic calls since i was vexed with everyone ignoring my calls :(
having said that,u r a very genuine critic and i love ur comments :)
hey sindhu....
my sister called me and asked me to read your post. i was busy but just logged in to check it out... and im glad i did....
it was lovely reading it and i hope to be a frequent visitor to your blog :)
- Janani (Ashwini's sister)
hey jan,
thanks a lot :)iam happy u liked it.
Superbly written!
But, if she didn't go through all that, life wouldn't have been so much fun, would it?
Anon - is this a comment to this post or the newer one?
Nopes. I commented for this post itself.
If she didn't go through all that (climbing up cars, smoking, playing cricket), life would have been boring no? Why would you want to put sense into her head?
oops,u got it wrong lulu.its a "he",a love interest that "she" is talking about.
Oh!! ....well now you have a different interpretation to the story; I thought you were talking to 'Samudraa' from the past...... (what with the cooking cuts and passion about rebelling!)
People should read this.
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