Around that time ( part 7 )
The thought, " You're lucky, it could have been worse," is the kind of gratitude I can do without. It also could have been better, or, actually, it couldn't have been any other way than the way it was. I sat at the airport thinking of these lines I had read long back. Somu's flight was arriving any minute now after being delayed for 4 hours, I was still lost in the thoughts of those wonderful college days. How me and Somu never spoke for the next two years, it wasn't until Renu's marriage we started talking again. And why wouldn't we ? We had graduated and Karthik was history then, none of us knew where he was. We were friends again, Renu now lives with her husband in delhi, and I have been calling Edgware road studio as home for the past 2 years. A loner life in London is pathetic but Now that somu was moving here life had started to seem more exciting than ever. I could hear the announcement. Somu had landed and I was waiting to see her after one year. Our last phonic conversation was when she was leaving Mumbai airport. We jumped in joy and we hugged eachother, trying to note the changes in our appearance in the last one year. Somu had changed, she was now a beautiful woman, someone who could be any man's desire. She was poised and perfect. "you look beautiful ! " I said. Somu smiled and said but " But not more than you... London weather is quite cold." " yeah, wait for the onset of winter." saying this I picked her bag's.
Life was quite perfect except for the constant phone calls from home pestering to check out marriage proposals. Somu had found love in Rahul, they were planning a spring wedding. And I was waiting for Love to walk into my life. I would be 25 in 4 more months. At once life seemed to have been stuck with the same rotinue of work, friends, weekend fun and more work on monday morning's. And home seemed so away as I stood next to the London bridge, thinking what should be my next step. It was late when I got home. Somu and Rahul were there, they looked very happy. As soon as somu saw me, she hugged me and said " I'm getting married the 24 th of next month." I was very happy for her. " Congrats ... ." Turning towards Rahul "congrats Rahul. " I said. " But you hardly have 3 weeks to prepare for the wedding." I said. " Don't worry, everything will be taken care of. Dad and mom will take care of everything. " said Somu. I looked at her confused. " Yes, we are getting married in Bangalore." Rahul said. "My parents have agreed for our marriage ." He said. I hugged Somu again. That evening we celebrated the news over dinner. somu and Rahul were stranger's a year ago and now deeply in love with other and were getting married. I slept that night with these thoughts - Often my desires are based on images of what I think I want to be. I applied for leave, the first thing next morning. I was going back home after 10 months. I was sure mom would have a parade of guys for me to check out. The next two weeks went by shopping for the wedding. In a haste, we left for Bangalore on the 19th.
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a very much personal blog.. but a nice one lady.. ccheck out mine at.. http://ragav-world.blogspot.com/
seems like a new story ...
no... The same story but new circumstances :) :)
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