Devika's

You find your lost love, or so you think, after years. You hear that your childhood best friend, with whom you lost contacts for ages, married recently. The person you have known to be benign for so long turns out to be just the opposite. You do not win the heart of this one person you tried to, all those time. You thought you were better, but apparently you were just as ordinary as so many people around you. Well, life brings us many surprises; some good, some not so good. And there are some which belong to neither. Nevertheless, surprises excite us, hue our everyday. We are thrilled with every little surprise that comes our way as they make us ponder upon our own flaws and fortitude. Surprises delight us. Surprises leave us with a crippling affliction. Surprises tend to influence us, our way of life, in one way or the other. ;)

 Today was the day I had waited for so long. Did this really happen? I am in constant denial. Today seemed like an improbable truth, like it was the present of the past, of mine and of yours. I was walking and talking as if I was walking and talking years ago. This today felt no present, but a glimpse of my ingrained memories of the life-time I spent under my unceasingly intense fidelity to you. It felt like everything that I had never felt and can never feel again. You wish for something incredible to happen and it really happens. Life would then be a beautiful constellation of happy endings. Sadly, this possibility of anything and everything can only prevail in a fairy tale where magic exists and where your wishes come true. In real life, there is no magic; there are (and can be) only co-incidences, that is too, if you are a believer like me. And today seemed like one of those it-can-never-happen fantasized magical tale that I lived, yet refused to believe in what came ab...