When Words Did What Alcohol Could Not!!!

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

I exactly remember that day. It was a sunny morning of January. The weather was cold and the sun was beautifully complementing the overall season with its much adored warmth. However all I needed was a little more warmth that could hold me emotionally and can penetrate within my soul to bring me out of the trauma that I had faced in last few months.

My girlfriend of 5 years had ditched me a few months back. I had absorbed myself completely in to alcohol and weeds. I was devastated and completely off the grid. My family was clueless about what all was happening and my friends have made all their best efforts to comfort me in some sense but to futility.

I had lost all the faith and trust in anybody and everybody. But there was someone who not for a day had left my side. He was my best friend since childhood. He knew me better than anyone else and in all these situations; his response by far was the most mature.

However he has to leave for his hometown a few back ago and today he was supposed to come back. Also while he was back there, our results for semester’s exams have come and I have failed in 3 out of five subjects. I haven’t told anyone though I know all my friends knew my roll number and they must have known the results. I was more in depression than ever before.

My cell phone rang. I picked it up.

“Hi, how are you?” it was Rohit.

“Just fine and when did you return back from home”, I asked

“Just an hour ago” quipped Rohit, he continued “I was thinking if we can meet at the domino’s near your flat. I am carving for the Pizza. See you there in half-an-hour. Ok!”

He said it all in one sentence to avoid any reluctance from my side. I knew I had to agree.

“Ok, I will see you their then”

After exactly half an hour I came out of my house and walked to the nearby Pizza outlet.

For initial few months I have completely avoided these places as they constantly remind me of our dates and my time spend with her. But gradually you come in terms with these things.

I walked in the store.

He was already sitting there with a smile. We shared a warm hug and took our places in front of each other.

 I was preparing myself for some hard hitting lecture though he has never lectured me ever before like everyone else did. But this time I guess it was too much and I was all ready to be scolded.

He started the conversation and kept on talking about various topics like his home stay, all the good times with family, Maa k haath ka khaana and all that stuff. For a moment I thought he doesn’t know about my exam results.

I was feeling a little free. He made some very funny joke and I laughed out really loudly. This was probably first time in several months that I could manage a laugh.

Then he said, “Avinaash, see it’s not that tough to laugh. What exactly good do you think you are doing to yourself with all those liquor and drugs. It is just into your mind. You do not need them but you have them because you have seen guys doing such things in movies or have heard such stories from friends of friends. It is not you. Why are you trying so hard to be what you are not?”

I was staring at him blankly.

He kept talking, “ Listen, a girl leaving you is no good reason to mourn. It’s just the society and the circle that you live in which makes you think that you need to mourn and this was probably the love of your life that you have lost. Let me tell you it was not any such thing. It was just a normal relation that was meant to end and the best you can do is forget it. So be it for now, forget, flush and move on!”

I was still absorbing when he stood up and asked me to walk out with him and said, “Remember Avinash, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Don’t let your hopes die and you will one day achieve all you desire.”

He left me with all these words and I have never felt any better in last whole week than this.

Sometimes, its just the words and company of some loved one’s that can make all the difference in life.

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