Sunday, August 27, 2017

The hourglass

My best friend had come to stay with us after a lot of pleading from me. The duration which  at that time seemed nice and good, as the time neared an end felt just so small and passing away just so quickly. Just like an hourglass, the initial and middle time felt like passing nice and slowly and felt as if I had all the time of the world. Just as it neared the end and the sand started just pouring so soon, I realized so many things that we had not done and postponed because we had lots of time or so we thought. we still managed to squeeze in most of stuff including a weekday evening and not a sunday morning for her ultimate matar pattice or one afternoon she made rava besan laddoos or chiwda back to back.

And then the time for her to leave came, just a bit soon. she left a big hole in my life. There would no more be endless chatter and ddiscussions on anything and everything. There would never be "shall I make tea for you " questions. My lone multicolored mug standing mute, waiting for my twice a day  microwave green tea sessions. Her cup and saucepan for indian style milk tea esconced away from my soapy hands. The comedy shows that wesaw, laughed and commented would be mutely seen my me, my thoughts running near her in India.

Now my lone weekday marathon will start and my heart will wait eagerly wait for one more meeting with her.

Au revoir aai