
He was just like a boy next door. He was ordinary. He had ordinary looks with ordinary small eyes, he was lean, he was neither very tall nor very short-heighted and he had an ordinary voice. His dreams were ordinary- a good job and a good girlfriend…. Even in my wildest dream I never imagined that someday I would be writing about this ordinary guy.
When he met me first, it was more like a formal introduction. We talked to each-other for about an hour or something. We discussed our interests, hobbies etc. Interestingly, we were just opposite to each-other. I am talkative, he was always on the silent mode; I love to fight, he would just let go things; I am impatiently impatient, he is …. Well these were the things that used to attract me. You know, opposites attract (here I m talking about being friends only)!! After meeting him I actually found myself complete. He was complementary.
I loved talking to him, I still do. After a few days we started talking for hours. He used to listen to all the nonsense that I used to speak. I used to be myself with him. He never customized me. He accepted me the way I was. The best thing was his never complaining attitude. No complaints against anything. This ordinary boy was not that ordinary. He had an extra-ordinary charm.
After a few more days he started telling me about himself (since initially I never gave him the chance to speak). Actually by the time I had started reading his eyes. His eyes always showed agony. I don’t know why but there was something. I kept asking him but he never told me. One day his eyes could not hold the tears back and that day for the first time his emotions yelled out themselves. After a long interrogation he silently showed me his mobile, there was a picture of a beautiful girl. The eyes had already spoken out everything. Now the formality part was also completed. That single moment was the milestone of our strong relation. For the first time he shared the true part of himself with me. He told me about his girlfriend, his uncaring attitude and how much he loved her and was not able to convince her. I could simply empathize with him because we both were boarding the same boat. I had been going through ups and downs in the relationship for a long time.
After knowing about his life, I decided to help him in getting his girlfriend back. During the long walks we used to find out ways to convince her. I told him to send her messages full of emotions (at extreme)!! One day she replied back. Thereafter they started talking. I was very happy to see him happy. In the mean time, I and he became the best friends forever. During the holidays, when we both were at our respective places, I realized his importance in my life. Since the girl was in his hometown, he tried to meet her there. She met him but responded strangely. He was very upset with this behavior of hers. That night while chatting on Gmail, I could make out that he was crying. At that time even his words were crying. I didn’t know how to console him. He and I, we both were waiting eagerly for the vacations to end. Finally after the vacations we met. That whole night he put his head on my shoulders and cried. His pain came out with his tears. Even I cried after seeing his pain. Like a child, he was asking me questions and I was speechless to say something on those innocent questions.
Well after a few days, he sort of overcame all that. All those long talks started becoming short. I thought that I had lost him; maybe he talked to me just because he had problems, now since he had nobody distracting and disturbing his thoughts, he didn’t need me anymore. Soon all those small things became big. They were so big that I could not see beyond them, I limited my thoughts and my perceptions to these boundaries. One day, when I needed him and he didn’t turn up, instead he was busy with someone else. I could not tolerate it. Well, what else, I decided not talking to him. Even though it was more than impossible for me to ignore him, then also, I did that. One week later, it was a festival, I rang him, and for about an hour we fought. It was the biggest mistake of my life. Out of rage I spoke a few things that nobody could ever tolerate. It was the day when I shut the last open door to revive the friendship. Afterwards there were no possible ways to get that friendship back.
Two months passed like that…..both of us were busy in our lives. I don’t know about him, but though I showed that he didn’t mean anything to me, there was something missing in my life. That ordinary boy had created a place in my heart and nobody could fill it, even I could not go for delayering.
Trust me, he was not that ordinary as he used to project!!!
Gradually, he came closer to the heart, the more he was out of sight, the more he came closer to the heart. The more he was physically away; the deeper he was going down the heart…
I tried finding my existence in his life through his eyes… I tried reading them many-a-times but his eyes were as cold as death. I had died long before. The feelings died, the only reason why we were together had vanished, disappeared. The only thing that bound us was the emotion that we shared, true and trusted. A few lines that knock me whenever I think of him:
Trapped in the web is my heart,
Because you are the most important part,
Do not know how to overcome you,
You were like a moon out of the blue,
Whatever happened, happened because of my impatience,
And today the relation between us is the indifference…
After doing every possible thing to revive the friendship, finally I am closing the book of this friendship. Today when I see him, I find a different person altogether. He’s cold, indifferent and moreover NOT A FRIEND! I have given up all my hopes on him. Maybe he won; maybe he is happy but the truth remains that the friendship lost it all!!!