Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Replaced

07th April, 2015.

Hello there my dear, agonized, taunted, traumatized readers! Enjoying a fine April evening? I assume you are! Isn’t it a great evening? With the crescent moon and the slight calm breeze, I guess nothing is wrong at all, and it shouldn’t be. I on the other hand, being self ostracized from the trivial banality and the vain, incessant vanity of the day to day conundrums, and trying as much possible, to stay away from the vestiges of the regular drama of the subtle things, am here, writing and trying to surpass the already lethal days and obnoxious nights. Although to be truthful, there is no insomnia anymore, I am having sound sleeps at night indeed, which is a rarity in itself, it came with a cost. A cost of lost vaunts that was a default character of me. I lost the way of talking, rendering myself speechless and the ability to think and present some solution to anybody who needs it. As someone named me “Mr. Manipulator” due to my excessive talks and solutions, I might am losing my ability. But enough of me! This particular rant is about someone else, and I, like always, am sure that she won’t read it. Although she is well aware of my writings, she doesn’t have any interest about them, so I can write without being bothered of her knowing.

Well, how is it, how does it feels, to be replaced? To have your emotions replaced by apathy? hmm... well!

After long and arduous planning and programming, I finally met Trisha on 4th.  Trisha, a good friend and a better person. I’ve known her for quite a time now, and it was after about 5 months that we met. Now the reason of this meet was quite stupid, and I have no recollection of the reason why I am writing it, but since it has been eating me up, I might as well write! Maybe it was something about her recent heartbreak (really, now I have to stop attracting the heartbroken damaged people!), and though she is good now, coping all the banality the life gave her continuously for the last 2 and a half years, I guess she wanted to talk. Yeah well! Talking is what I did, but I will refrain from describing about what I said, it is bullshit, and plus, I am more concerned about her, being a friend it was/is my moral obligation.

Now, if I was asked to describe Trisha, it wouldn’t take me more than 10 seconds to do so. Quiet girl, smart, soft spoken, good natured, bit naïve but not stupid, doesn’t have temper or tantrums, which is not seen in girls of her age. Yes I am generalizing, if it offends any feminists, go away now! She was like that in school and I had this idea that she would remain such afterwards. But now, I am certain that a great emotional push can indeed replace the initial characteristics with something new. She too had undergone changes that were not anticipated.

Well, in a nutshell, she had a bad breakup a while ago when she was blindly in love with a good for nothing arse. I don’t have to give out any details, but she was in a bad place. Well, if compared to the recent events in my shit life that lacked any excitement, she was in a worse place. So much so, she visited temples and places for answers, but as usual, the gods are made of plasters and paints, so there was not any respond. And as she proved it, she has much more emotional content than me; all kinds of wrong thoughts were roiling inside her which was quite natural. What was totally unnatural was the change in her. Yes, people change, but they are gradual changes, taking place in their own accord and in due course of time. But if you go under a change right after something drastic, it isn’t a good thing. I know that because, as much it sounds unbelievable, I am not the person I was in 4 years ago. And that too was drastic, even though I am.... Well, coming back to her, she talked, mostly about me, more about herself. There were questions she asked, simple but confounding questions, and for the first time, I was out of answers. Even consolations found their way out the window and all I was left with were more questions.

What indeed was answered, indirectly, was the fact that we all have replaced our emotions and attitudes, like something has been pulled out of us and something entirely alien has been installed, and we lost everything we had. I keep saying ‘we’ because there are people like me, Trisha and others, in a huge number, who were something else and are now something, someone else, just because we failed. She kept asking, where was our fault, what went wrong? And indeed it was a good question, for all I know; we did our best, made the feelings strong and the bond was great, but then, poof! With a snap of finger, we changed. And why? She presented an argument, that we are too kind and caring, we roam with a bleeding heart and that became the reason of such atrocities. We are ready to extend our hands again and again, presenting our hearts on a silver plate and that is what expected from us, so it was easy to end. I guess she wasn’t wrong. But then, I neither agreed nor disagreed with her. She needed to speak, and for the first time, I saw her angry, the temper going at critical levels, though she kept her composure, I did saw her right through her mask. And I was happy about it! Atleast, she is able to cope with such shit, given the fact that the guy was/is still an asshole to leave a person like her, and taunting her too! But I suppose it is her matter to deal.

I don’t know why I am even writing this, I guess, somewhere I agree with her. Why? I don’t know, I don’t want to know, but I am sure that I am not that guy anymore, I am replaced. I don’t know what went wrong, or if I was unable to be like every other guy, with shit attitude and did not follow the new trend to be practical these days. I do miss that old me, jabbering and waiting for the evenings to come, now I am threatened with shit stuff, and the head burns are replaced with nothingness, I keep my heart beating and hopes up. I guess she wanted to know how I do this. Well, it is just me! A stupid, fucked up court jester, a clown, making everyone else happy with my witty replies and care. All I know is, we’ll continue to be like this and our hearts will get broken, replaced with a void soon!

But she made one thing clear. Despite of her being another Trisha, she said, and I quote “I pity him, you know Rishi! And I pity all of them, them with the ability to break hearts after giving us hope and reason to love. I pity them because, they might will get someone else, or they will stay alone all the way, looking for love when it was right in front of them, it will be their fault. We were right there in front of them, we loved them with everything, and there will be no one like us! Atleast, we didn’t left!” well… I hope she wasn’t wrong! She reminded me of this song by “poets of the fall” –
                                                        “why do we sacrifice the beautiful ones?
                                                          How do you break a heart of gold?”

So, this was all! I guess now I need to leave! I am high on cough syrup and a concoction of honey, holy basil and ginger!

Ta!

p.s - love always!

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