Now, I’ve come to terms with the world I live in. It is fast food, fast love, faster death. However, of all the byproducts of this jet setting metropolitan lifestyle ‘meeting the X’ is something I hate the most.
As a kid I didn’t particularly love Algebra. Algebra was the devil that introduced ‘X’ in my life. X is a variable. Something you don’t know, something which can assume different values, something when changes sides in the equation -has a potential to become positive from negative.
Days passed by and we all grew out of the books to look at the prettier things in this world. Romance read in books, seen on the 70mm screen and painted on the canvas of tender, innocent mind soon turned out to be an illusion caused due to the lack of realism.
I don’t remember when the words like dating, hook up, flirting, fooling around, friends with convenience and break up became integral part of our urban dictionary. And along came X.
We are humans, we all have needs and our journey is to satisfy them and be contented. We have all the rights in the world to make due mistakes, to take undue chances and find what we think we are looking for. In this course, we do end up breaking some hearts and also get ours broken at times. It hurts but why do we have friends, drinks, smokes and rebounces.
Problem is X remains. May it be minuscule bit of it but some traces of X remain. And there can be one zillion reasons why it is inevitable to meet X but one has to. You’ve to and she has to. Now, this factor X is crucial. Like I said, it is a variable, an unknown, something that changes to positive from negative when on the correct side of the equation. Well, I trust Gods who gifted us with grass, but I don’t trust the grass for its intrinsic properties. I trust man but not the alcohol they invented.
Well, I find peace in knowing X too stands for a cross. Perhaps the cross put on the equation that doesn’t hold true anymore.
Bittersweet symphony is this life. Trying to make ends meet, make some money and find someone and then you …
Neo
great post man, as usual ... makes me wanna get a X-ray
ReplyDeleteGood writing, hurtful words. What can I say...you feel what you feel. If this post was a moment of anger or hurt then its a different story. If not then its sad you feel this way coz X's will be X's and by-gones by-gones...its now that matters.
ReplyDeleteive heard u.. now im readin u. im impressed
ReplyDeletea palpable experience has provoked this is very apparent,the globalisation and MNC-ing feeling notwithstanding!!
ReplyDeleteabout the variables that make up experience, the lesser said the better, coz the only huge takeaway should be the hard lessons that we should not forget ever.
about getting nostalgic from romances to candyfloss movies, illusion is a business to keep our idle minds' sanity in check.
growth is falling down and rising up and learning to steady your step, bruises and scars will be there but healing is a part of life.
introspection happening ..? Well written..
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