“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that
you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence” –
David Byrne
In my previous post I had attempted to write a short story.
I managed to write something. But some of my readers felt that the story should
have a more conclusive ending. I agree the ending was slightly abrupt. But that
was the intention.
For those who don’t know the background, let me take a step
back, and start again. There are two individuals, the protagonists as we may
call them. They are from different backgrounds, different ideologies, different
upbringing and probably different thought processes. Yet there is one thing in
common. They are alone. Till the time they meet and start talking. And that’s
where the story ends.
Yes, I could have given it a happy ever after ending, where
they meet and decide to stay together. Or else, I could have played the devil,
and made them part ways, each carrying their own share of pain. But I didn’t do
either of this. Isn’t this what life does to us? It opens the door and then
leaves us with the decision of venturing out or not. Isn’t that a fair
treatment? And for now let me leave it at that. As now it’s for you to decide
if my decision was right or not.
As far as I am concerned, I have already decided.
Coming back to my story, what happens after the two
protagonists meet is not the crux of it. To my mind it doesn’t even matter.
What matters is that the meeting results in conversations.
Conversations – the core of any relationship, personal or
professional, family or friends, likes or dislikes. These conversations decide
the depth and the intensity of the relation. They determine the emotional
quotient. They bridge the gaps, and bring hearts closer.
The latest superhit Bollywood (Hindi cinema) movie ‘Queen’, is also based on similar plots.
The protagonist, a simple & naïve girl ventures into the big world. She
lands up in foreign lands, surrounded by strangers. Yet the friends she makes,
the bonds she forms and the experiences she gathers, help her discover parts of
her personality she was totally oblivious of till that time.
In a similar example, from the movie ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ (another superhit from Hindi cinema), one
of the protagonists is able to share his deepest emotions, with his love
interest, a European girl, who doesn’t understand his language, but struggles
to share the same with his childhood friends. Thus is the language of love,
connections of heart. Which though conveyed through words, transcends the
barriers of language and vocabulary.
Some of these connections are nothing but momentary, these
relations transitory. They are beyond the definitions of friends and family,
and at best can be classified as a mere stranger. Yet their impressions on our
heart, their footprints on our memories are permanent.
Haruki Murakami had said, “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of
themselves.” And any one person can not join all the missing links.
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