By the time the word ‘second’ arrives in your life, life has somewhat already placed you at a different balcony where you see the world from a different, wider and a higher level.
It was my second Valentine alone.
Yesterday, on 13th February, I knew what day tomorrow is going to be.
Hence, wanted to make sure that I am ‘not left alone’.
Gifted myself a pink shirt, pink pebble ear-rings and snow white slippers (and for a change, it was not a surprise gift, this time, rather I let myself select gift for myself) and made sure that none can judge from my joyful face that my 14th Feb eve was going to be as normal and un-happening as the other 364 evenings.
Well, as I heard the ting-tongs of mobile sms reaching out to people’s (read girls’) cellphones wishing them ‘love’ on this day, I pretended that my phone was on silent mode.
When I saw those slum kids at signals running after cars, selling bunches of roses, I ignored, acting in concert with my arrogance that I don’t buy or expect my man to gift me a flowers like that. I pretended that I like them properly wrapped with a four digit price tag dangling around it.
When the tables were booked for the sea-side restaurants, I pretended to have been fasting today.
When at Marine drive, hands were held, kisses exchanged and flowers smelt, I hurried up for my class exaggerating how important it was.
Anyways, what you can do is to mentally prepare your mind for lonely evening(or life) ahead..
What you can’t do is to shut your heart up!!
Dil to baccha hai ji…..
