a chance encounter ....

this is something I penned down almost 10 years ago when I was 17 , and the world was very different and yet very same.....

This is the story of a girl who loved , who lived, who smiled and then vanished like the moon that does at every dawn.Her life was only limited to a mere 22 yrs.When she smiled she lit the room like a rainbow that lits the sky after a heavy downpour , when she cried she made the heavens cry , when she loved she made the angels and fairies dance under the moon.But she also had a darker side that no one could glimpse into and conquer.But one fine day some one came.Yes!! someone came.Someone who could see it all.Someone who made her want to set herself free......


And what do you say about a guy who has it all . That he has everything everyone envy's and he has every rite to be there as he worked for it. He was a man of honour , a man of his word , a man who was intelligent and who had power.When you looked from afar you saw a guy who had everything , even he thought he had everything , he thought he was complete and needed nothing else , but one day his illusion shattered...........
It was like some one threw a stone at his perfect glass house and it shattered into a million tiny pieces.
Some one , who made him realise his humanness merely by her presence.And that is when magic happened , the heavens cried yes and sprinkled their love on him and this is how they met.....


While he was coming back from a business trip, he crossed a lake which was close to his home.He never really went there for anything but that day, some how, the horizon called to him like somekind of a powerful witch whom you cannot refuse.It was the magnificent time of sunset.The golden hue in the sky with a hint of purple red and orange , looked like gold at its zenith and it was like all of it was calling to him.He stopped the car.When he went to the shore , he saw a girl sitting there with her back towards him.When she heard his foot steps , she turned and looked at him , their eyes met , held and in that moment his illusion shattered.Then he realized how empty his life had been.Then the moment passed.She turned to her own thoughts and he to his.They sat there in silence.Not a single word was spoken.Finally the sun set and then she got up , gathered her books and went away without looking back.He got up and went to his car and drove home.....
That night he dreamed of her.Dreamed of those magical brown eyes..


Those eyes that told him so many things that a million pages cannot convey.When he woke up he knew he would go there again.He went there and saw her sitting at the same place.and somehow they started talking. They talked about everything.Two perfect strangers who saw right through each other, then they each went away not knowing the others name or whereabouts.They only knew what they talked about.And in that one week they lived their whole lives.Each day near dusk they met at that lake and talked.Finally there was someone who could see through her faccade of sugar and roses and could actually see the thunder and the passion she had for life and for love.And finally he met a woman who wasn't vain and he could talk to about the stuff that mattered to him.There was an instant reaction between the two.The 8th day wen he came , she wasn't there.And from that day on till the next two weeks , he came and everyday waited till midnight for her to come but she never came...


so that day he decided to look for her.She had told him stuff about the town where she lived , so he looked for it.He went to a small town nearby and asked for a girl of her description.A guy told him to go to a house which was hers.He went there , when he saw the place he knew it was the right place as she had told him about it.He went inside and asked for her.Her father came and told him that she died in a car accident that 8th day.He was thunderstuck!! His whole world crashed around him , he couldn't move.The only thing that rang through his mind was the verse "to lose someone before getting them" .And when his heart filled with grief he thought about what she had said the last day they were together.She had laid her hand on his cheek , and had looked in to his eyes and had said .....


pain in all it's complexity is just in our minds.
haven't we all heard this so many times and in so many places. whenever we feel pain , there is always someone around us trying to tell us how we should feel about that pain. 

love is not the fever of the flesh
but the feeling that is left when the fever is gone.....

it is not feeling the presence of the beloved
but the longing that is felt when your beloved is gone.....

it is not the union of two souls
but the togetherness that is felt even when one has been lost .....

it is not the number of minutes or hours or days that are spent together
but the number of seconds that are savoured ....

it is like the beauty of a rose ... with thorns , with ugliness of the stem , with the protection of the leaves and yet you look forward to that one single rose that you know will one day wilt and will leave you all alone .....

when he remmebered all this a peace came over his heart.He turned around and left that place and went into his car into the night.He spent that whole day driving.Thinking about that girl with those sensual brown eyes.He didn't even know her name and yet she became everything.And he went back to that place on the beach and made a heart on the tree near which they used to sit and engraved on it "ricordati di me" ( remmeber me my love )..and he went away.And after that whenever he went near that place his heart was filled with longing and peace.......

30 years from then .........

It was his daughters wedding day.Yes!! he married at the age of 30 to a woman he did not really love but respected and cared deeply for.It was his daughters wedding and when the ceremony was taking place he saw "HER" standing near the altar.Lookin like the beauty she was at 22.And his heart filled with love.He could never forget her......

It was merely 7 days , but those 7 days were just enough to make him love with a fervour that he did not know he possessed and never ever felt after that.No one ever knew that she existed.Even he never went back to ask her name because somehow those 7 days were enough for him to last a life time............
as they say .." SOMETIMES LOVING MEMORIES ARE ENOUGH TO QUENCH THE THIRST OF A LIFETIME"