In the Moment.

"I had a lovely evening."

"Yeah, me too."

"Where are you heading now?"

"Home."

"Of course. But how?"

"Umm..I guess I'll take a metro. My apartment is a flat 5-minute walk from the station."

"Can I walk you to the station?"

"Sure, I'd like that."

"What else?"

"It's been a long time since I've come out on a date."

"Is that so? Why?"

"I've no clue. Just didn't want to get emotionally invested in someone, I guess."

"Come on, first and second dates barely hurt."

"Do they? Always?"

"Okay, maybe not always. But what's the harm in trying?"

"I don't know. Just didn't want to take a chance, I guess."

"Hmm..interesting."

"To be honest, I figured this date would be a grand dud."

"But it didn't, right?"

"Luckily, yeah."

"What made you agree to go out with me, though?"

"Fishing for compliments now, are you?"

"Haha..not really. I'm just curious."

"Okay...well..it's kind of silly, you know."

"I'm all in for silly."

"It's this song you shared on Facebook two weeks ago. By Cigarettes after Sex."

"Yeah, what about it?"

"It's one of my favourites and I haven't met anyone else who liked it as well."

"Wait...that's your reason?"

"To begin with."

"So, there's more?"

"I mean, you seemed like someone who'd be easy to hang out with?"

"God, I don't want to be an easy guy."

"No, I mean effortless."

"Sure!"

"Do you do this often?"

"What 'this'?"

"Going out with girls."

"I go out with everyone. I'm always up for meeting people. I try to keep myself open to being inspired and learn from the stories of different people. But to answer your question in a straightforward manner, I'm not always romantically interested in someone. That's a matter of getting out of my comfort zone and I reserve that only for a few."

"Like me?"

"Now you stop flattering yourself!"

"Haha, okay the station is here. Would you like to leave now?"

"I'll drop you home and go."

"Really?"

"Yep, I'm loving this chat more than the fancy date we had a while ago."

"Great."

"Great, let me get the tickets then. You stay put."

"Let's go."

"Okay, now my turn to ask you a question."

"Go ahead."

"Did you ever get your heart broken?"

"Why do you ask?"

"You look like a guy who cannot take a heartbreak smoothly."

"Can any person ever?"

"Depends."

"Well, I might have, what about you?"

"I'm not done yet. So what's the craziest thing you've done when you got your heart broken?"

"I'm not really the crazy-thing guy, you know? I'm a regular person who goes through what he has to go through. The art of getting by."

"Ah."

"My turn now."

"Okay."

"Do you have any fantasies?"

"Like superheroes and stuff?"

"Anything."

"All my fantasies can be deemed doltish. For instance, my impossible longing to be invisible and date Henry Peter from X-men."

"What!"

"I told you. I've got tons of such fantasies. But I'll tell you a lesser crazy one."

"Okay, but first let's grab those empty seats. My feet ache."

"Okay."

"Go on, now."

"So, I have this hankering desire to make love in my university library. Particularly near the Fiction section with a great number of books and volumes in sight."

"In daylight?"

"Eww, no! That'll be a weird fetish."

"Very weird. Plus, your librarian might not fancy the idea much."

"Shut up. I was referring to nights when the place is quite isolated."

"Hmm."

"What?"

"Nothing. It's just strange. You read like a monster and yet you have such a fantasy. I thought you might have an aversion to such stuff, you know."

"You should stop stereotyping everything. I can be fun."

"You are fun. I never said otherwise."

"Good. Good for you.

Anyway, so someone once told me that a person's fantasies tell a great deal about them."

"Definitely. For example, your fantasy tells you are a pervert."

"What? Shut up! It just tells that I love reading."

"If that's what you must say to please yourself."

"You're annoying!"

"Oh, am I?"

"Yeah."

"Okay okay, you're not a pervert.

Now, why don't we listen to that song that brought us together tonight?"

"Right now?"

"Yes, why not?"

"Good idea."

"Great, let's do it then."

Tune for the day:

https://www.saavn.com/s/song/english/Cigarettes-After-Sex/Each-Time-You-Fall-In-Love/RilbbixBUlY

An Unsung Song.

I remember the first time I saw you,

I was younger, and so were you,

The lights, like you, were at a proximity which was morosely faraway.

There was music in my head, which kept me oblivious to everything around,

Maybe even to the music that was played in the coffee shop.

Reticence and silence were lying astray in the air between us,

Like an unsung song whose lyrics I knew, but never the tune.

But even before we realized, we build a fort around awkward hushes and masked emotions,

The secret path to this fort, as someone once said, was not giving in to the urges.

We could have given in to it. Maybe we should have,

Instead, we made a deal with our mystical little minds,

To replace our hearts desires with vague reassurances and unsure answers.

Because in a battle between wants and needs, we were neither,

Maybe we were in-between but never enough to create symphonies.

Going back to the day when we first met, I now realize that,

Love was never our cup of tea,

It never was our humble abode.

Ten Things I've Learned The Hard Way!

1. The corporate world can make your life bizarre and give you a massive head-ache. No matter how awesome you are (or you were), you will turn into a person with too many complications. 

You miss your crappy college and the person you used to be!

2. There are times when people change drastically and you end up looking like a deluded fool having no clue of the situations and of course, the repercussions. 

Accept the change and move on! 

3. A person can do a lot. Like, a lot! 

All that we need to do is, prioritization and hell yes, get rid of the damned procrastination.

4. There are moments when little things can irk you. There are moments when your brain can create all lame stories about 'those little things'.

Gimmeeee a break!!! Those little things do not even matter, you demented brain.

5. Have a little faith in yourself! 

6. There are moments when we are so into some crappy work and ignore our friends, life and  all that and turn into a replica of a person we once hated.

On a serious note, why do you need anything else when you have no peace, love, happiness and in this process, your life turns crapper. Doesn't it?

7. Appreciate the people you have in your life and be glad that you have them before it is too late.

Yes, before it is too late for everything! ;-)

8. Promises are broken, scattered, twisted, forgotten, and in few cases, they are thrown out of the window. 

Well, I've learned that you can do nothing about them. Seriously,what can you?

9. SHUT UP and mind your job. No, really!

10. Yawn! I am glad the final one is here. I ran out of ideas already. :D

Music and books can pull you out of any distress. One should always depend on them for comfort.