I observe them for a while, they are going about saying something to each other in undertones, probably for some privacy, but what they didn't realize was that their expressions were sort of giving them away.
The guy was accusing and the girl was trying to give some kind of explanation. Then the guy says something rude and the girl gets pissed off, turns away and looks determinedly in the opposite direction. I was waiting for some tears or something but sadly nothing.
I got bored of them so I looked around for something else that would entertain me, and precisely at that moment my i pod, in it's shuffle mode, chose to play one of my favourite songs. So i enjoyed the breeze on my face, mind full of fantasies, lost in the song for the next couple of minutes..
When I came back to earth after the song ended, I looked at my watch. Damn! the train was late. Now in need for some distraction from my impatience and out of pure curiosity I looked around for the couple. I found them now standing behind me, ridiculously closer than before, with the girl giggling away and the guy looking at her very fondly.
Did I miss something? Wasn't this couple in the midst of some fight? It had barely been 3 minutes and they were behaving as if nothing had happened, not to mention, as if no one was around, considering how close they were getting!
Jeez!! I remember my fights years ago, ironically on the same station, and the entire immaturity to it. But if there was one thing I had learnt, it was that if the fights are resolved too quickly, they either aren't really resolved, or it wasn't a concrete issue and was simply a meaningless conflict. Neither being good.
If it wasn't really resolved it was simply because you don't feel like fighting in the little time you get together and prefer to shut it out for the moment, but then it eventually creeps right back and probably into something much bigger.
And if it was a meaningless fight then why did you have it? Because it wasn't actually meaningless, one of you compromised or else you both decided it was just not important enough to keep dragging.The latter is a good thing but the former isn't. Compromising isn't always the right way to go. You never know when you will hold that very decision that you made suddenly against your partner as something you did 'for' him\her. Then why did you do it in the first place?
The entire cycle of this very relationship crap (sorry but it does come to that eventually!) is it is very repetitive if you watch closely. The pattern of behavior, reactions, spats, the same thing over and over, until you either get used to it or get fed up of it.
Then again the other side of the same coin does exist - the 'feelings'. The damn thing that eventually makes the whole cycle bearable or unbearable to leave, both NOT being the same thing. Okay I think Im getting too relationshippy!
As I continued to watch the couple smitten over each other, 'coochy-cooing', I surprised myself with a smile. Someone who had become a skeptic over night, well not exactly over night, but yeah a skeptic today was smiling at a couple of young love birds. Not because they looked so 'in-love' but more because we all go through it.
Whatever you are today or will become tomorrow, is not the point, the bottom line is we all experience it, and as we watch others going through it we kind of become skeptical. But just like we learnt , they too shall. Not necessarily the same lessons, but they will. Why spoil the fun they are having now? Didn't we all enjoy it when we did?So why judge them today?
I watched as my train arrived and halted at the platform. I climbed onto it. My ride home had arrived. At the end of a long day the lesson is quite simple. As long as it gives you a smile keep watching, experiencing, or doing but once the smile is wiped out catch the train that will take you home. Leave the 'couple' at the station where it belongs. Don't carry it with you. The journey is longer than any other station, relation or person that may come and go. What will stick is the experience and the wisdom we hopefully gained!
nice story but thoda aur mirch masala chahiye tha u didnt mention that while the couple were busy in their so called relationship people were staring and peeping at them like never they had seen a couple in the railway staion and especially the despo men they can't give their eyes a rest until and unless those couple leave and what abt canteens in the railway stations the most happening place u can ever see arey u can add that too but all in all a very nice framed story good one and the last line was the best ok now i m bored lolzzzz typically monica hahah mere se acha seek rahi hai
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