I gaze at the stars every night,
standing on the patio of my parent’s house and feel the cool breeze brush my
face. The still chill in the air brings a shudder and I sense a pair of eyes
watching me. I glance around, but see none. My heart feels hollow and my mind
makes a conversation – “What is this emptiness I feel?”
I lead an active life professionally and socially.
My parents are the best, having given me, their only child, all their love and
unconditional support in all that I wanted to do and have in life. I have some wonderful
friends who care for me and are fun to be around. My work gives me solace and
is my spiritual journey.
I work to share my love,
affection, knowledge and to uplift the lives of young girls who have no home or family to call their own. I lead a privileged life and want the same
for my fellow human beings. My parents supported my decision of quitting the high
profile corporate world in my pursuit for a more meaningful completely
satisfying occupation that I love to breathe in and out daily. I think this is
my Karma!
But then, what is this ‘heart’ yearning for? What is this ‘emptiness’, I feel? My thoughts
overpower me for a split second as I cross the main road to reach my work place
and in a jiffy I feel a strong grip on my arm which pulls me so roughly, that I
am consumed by anger, followed immediately by a gripping panic. I am alive, having
just missed being run over by the speeding city bus!
And suddenly a sense of warmth
creeps into me as I look around to find myself in the strong arms of a
handsome man. Is this the ‘Platinum Day of Love’!!! His piercing brown eyes look familiar and I can sense anger and
concern in them. I am oblivious of the crowd gathered around me.
With a jolt, I recover from my
moment of clustered emotions, straighten myself, pluck his grasping hand off my
arm, murmur ‘thanks’ and run across the road to my everyday destination, my
work place.
I enter my office in a daze, gulp
down a glass of cold water and look for my mobile to call my close buddy and
share with her my eventful journey to work. Oh No! My mobile’s missing and I
remember to have dropped it on the road during the highly tumultuous moment of my
life.
Just as I get up still shaking
from the day’s event, to ask an office staff to go and look for it; I see my messiah
of the day or should I say my life walk into the office with my mobile in hand.
He gives me a big smile and hands over the mobile and I feel his finger slightly
brush my hand. And suddenly the ‘emptiness’
in filled with some weird ‘heaviness’. I say to myself, what the hell is this?
Oh my God! I recognise those eyes.
He is that shy boy, my neighbourhood best friend when I was a 6 year old. I
remember howling for days, when he moved from the city with his parents as I had lost my best friend and play mate. I asked him was he the same childhood buddy and the way he
laughed and hugged me acknowledging the fact is something I cannot forget ever
in my lifetime...
Love is in the air, the stars are
shining brighter, the heart is full of joy and both of us coincidentally have
chosen Platinum Love Bands to bind us in togetherness! Yes, platinum for its
purity, rarity and preciousness, just like ‘pure
love’.
I am remembered of a quote by Robert Frost - "In three words I can sum up everything, I've learned about of life: it goes on... " Love for eternity...The Platinum Way!
