Escape

Ever had so much stress that it feels like its gonna break your bones? Well, we teenagers are experts at emphasizing and magnifying our troubles! But let me tell you, being a pessimist is not a great option. How you perceive the world, in a positive or a negative way, matters a lot in life, and this story here is an example. So read on...



There was nothing actually wrong with his life. All was good. After all, he was just a kid. He was just making a big deal out of the smallest of snags. He was just being paranoid. “Ok I’ve got to stop with the self pity”, he thought to himself. But somehow he couldn’t bring himself out of his trance. He knew what others would say. “Distract yourself. Listen to music. Do something you like.”. “Yeah like I haven’t heard that a thousand times already”, God he was so easily irritated today.

Something didn’t feel right. Even the music did nothing to soothe him like it had done for so many months. It just seemed to disturb him today. He slammed the door on his way out of the house. No one questioned him as his bike roared to life and he was gone in a flash. The wind playing with his long hair did nothing to lift his spirits. The long distance his bike seemed to swallow at an enormous rate did not make him feel like a king today. He just felt like he was headed nowhere…just a long road leading nowhere, into nothingness.

A few minutes into the seemingly never ending ride, he reached his favorite spot. As he carefully parked his vehicle, he made sure like always that it could not be seen. He deliberately left his cell phone wrapped in his jacket on his bike and started walking. He walked for a few minutes and finally reached the lake. It was his ultimate escape. Like a child’s secret, he had clutched the existence of his place to himself, never to be shared with anyone. He had discovered this place a long time ago when he was just a kid. Going away for a “long drive” on his brand new bicycle, the 8-year-old him had uncovered one of the most beautiful worlds by literally falling into it. Except that as he walked over to his favorite spot beside the lake, he learned with a surprise that it was already occupied.


The girl turned around at the sound of his footsteps and did not seem to be surprised seeing him at this secluded spot.” So there is someone who knows about this paradise”, she drawled lazily as she dipped her hand in the cool water and waved it around before pulling out a perfect round stone from the water and gazing at it. She made no move as he sat down beside her and asked her, “Do you also come here often? I thought no one came to this place.” “So did I” she replied. “”I also live in the next city. I sometimes come here to relax. And you?”She continued without taking her eyes off the shiny stone.

“I come here to escape” his reply was simple.

“From what?”

“What do you mean? My life of course.”

At this she laughed lightly and turned around before replying, “You think the world depends on you, don’t you? You have all the problems to worry about. If you want to escape, may I suggest a more permanent escape than sitting here in the middle of nowhere for a few hours and then going home as if nothing happened?”

He was surprised by her sudden cold tone and struggled for words. As she saw him shaking his head in desperation, she stood up and let out an exasperated sigh. Looking down at him, she said her final words of wisdom-“you know what? If I were you, I would try to cheer up and not be a pain for the ones I love. You are young. Stop acting like the president of the USA and lighten up. Stop creating problems for yourself and enjoy while you can. You will regret these very days thinking to yourself why in the world you never thought about taking a dip in the cool water instead of throwing stones in it.”

Finishing her short speech, she paused for a moment before turning to go but then changed her mind. She looked back at the dumbfounded boy before her and bent down, took his hand in hers and placed the small stone in his palm.” Think of it as a beautiful piece of the earth, a gift of nature, not as a hard rock that could be thrown away without a second glance. The way you look at things matter a lot, you know.” She said as she walked away.

He watched her walk away in the direction of the city. He came back to his favorite spot and decided to take a dip in the clear lake after tucking the small stone in the inner pocket of his jacket. The wind whipping his hair seemed to be caressing him, and he felt like a king as his bike swallowed up the long distance like a hungry giant on the ride back home.

Didn't say it

“It hurts to love someone and not to be loved in return 

But what is more painful is to love someone and never find courage to let that person know how you feel”

We’ve all heard of the cliché “Love at first sight” haven’t we? But have you ever fallen for someone right when you saw them? We all tend to call it ‘Cheesy’ or ‘Impractical’ or even ‘Stupid’. But that spark, that explosion of emotions inside your head at that moment is like something you’ve never felt before. When you meet that person, your drab life suddenly turns into a quixotic tale. Well most of us can discard such “dross” feelings, but there are some of us who don’t have the power to do so, such people are unable to forget that person and as for those feelings ….. Well, let’s just say that those feelings never change, come what may. But the most important thing that we tend forget is that - liking someone is contiguous to telling them about your feelings.  But we try to eschew the situation where we tell the person everything. Due to the fear of rejection, people make a consonance with their heart, the consonance to keep their feelings to themselves. This is where a person begins to lose his self belief. Telling someone about your feelings is not wrong. It’s about gathering courage and telling the person the truth and nothing except it.

“It’s better to say too much,

  Than never to say what you need to say”

Today, this post is about the story of one such person. The story of my friend who loved a girl but was too scared to tell her because he thought she would never feel the same. My friend’s story, Shaurya’s story ……..

Shaurya had always been the most curious, inquisitive, loud, contumacious boy his teachers had ever taught. He had friends, all of them guys. He wasn’t shy talking to girls, but he just never felt that pull to talk to any girl. Maybe that was because he hadn’t met the one, the one who was not like any girl he had ever seen. Shaurya never thought that he would ever fall in love with a girl; he thought that it was stupid ... And falling in love at that very moment when you see a girl … Sheer nonsense!!!! But when he saw her for the first time ... That girl, she had a radiant face, beautiful eyes, a captivating smile and above all, a magnetic personality. She was Diya.... And from then on, Diya became the centre of attraction; she was the best at whatever she did, every word that she spoke felt like a breath of fresh air, all the guys in the class tried to fawn upon her to grab moments of her attention.... But Shaurya didn’t, or actually, he couldn’t.... He had never felt this way for anyone before. This girl had changed a feral into someone else, someone different, and someone better.... He was confused... He didn’t know what had happened to him ... But there was a fact that Shaurya wasn’t ready to face, a hard fact- Shaurya had started liking Diya, and she had become an important part of his life.

The days went as he stayed up all night, as he could not help thinking about Diya- her smile, her eyes, EVERYTHING! It was like he was riding an emotional rollercoaster, she ruled his dreams he began losing self control. It was like Diya was the end of the world to him, all his thoughts started as well as ended on her. He was too abashed to tell Diya about how he felt, he never considered himself to be half as good a guy who deserved to be with Diya. While most of his friends who felt inclined towards Diya discussed their feelings amongst each other, Shaurya desisted mentioning her name to any of them, and he tried to hide so that no one would know. He had some things that he would love telling Diya about, but frankly, he was too scared, so he rather chose to speak to her ordinarily since that felt like the best option, but he promised to himself that he would tell her someday, someday later. Though he didn’t plan on telling Diya, yet he did everything possible to grab her attention … Everything from funny ‘one liners’ to most of his silly antics had one objective – to make Diya smile.

” The greatest gift you can give to someone you like a lot is your time because you are giving them a portion of your life that u will never get back”