Overwhelmed

Its not the heart-melting feeling you get when you see a puppy..Its the soft feeling of amazing wonder when you look at a sun kissed lush green field after the first rain.

I’m talking about relationships here. The one thing that I probably give too much importance to.

But unfortunately, in my mind relationships are depicted in a very skewed manner. If I draw the most critical one word conclusion about the various relationships, then parents mean responsibility, siblings mean support, lovers mean pain and friends …they mostly mean a feeling that I have missed out on. It gives me that feeling, like when you look at something from beyond a glass wall and feel like you are a part of it.. but not quite.

And then I met some new people – who represent irony in every form possible. Habits, ideas, likes and dislikes, religion, background, everything is different. Common bond? Years of togetherness. Common Trait? Compassion. Common Wish? Laughter
It could be a mis-pronounced word. It could be an overturned ashtray. It could be some weird comment. It would be enactment of a school teacher. It could be obscene dancing to an irritating song. Anything, everything as well as nothing can be a reason to laugh.

However it’s not all fun. Tempers can fly high every now and then, and there is hardly ever an attempt to just let it be. People do not believe in compromising here. They can scream and abuse each other this instant while they can sit together and share a cigarette in the very next one. They can make fun of each other in the meanest manner possible and fight with every other person to back each other up.
All this comes from the fact that they seem to believe they can always work it out.

And that kind of proves that it is that easy to build happiness. And it also makes me feel how hard it is for so many people to match footsteps for every bit of the way. Its that miniscule a task to care for people and its equally mammoth a task to take care of them.

As I stand behind the glass wall.. I get this feeling of amazement like never before. A feeling of being thankful for experiencing something you had heard about but never really knew existed.
An overwhelming feeling of optimism that says everything can still be all right. Life still has some good things in store. And love..its the only essence of living.


Cheers guys! You are simply the awesomest :)