“Did you see that?”
“What?”
“How drastically the weather changed. It’s getting colder with each day passing by.”
“It wasn’t that sudden. Took it’s sweet time. Like always. Like last year. And the year before that.”
“But it feels different this time, isn’t it? This sudden chilliness. I don’t like it. Just like people, you know.”
“Umm, No. Maybe yeah.”
“Like they change drastically in one night.”
“Well, I don’t think so anyone changes overnight. There is always a drenched ruthlessness and crispiness in their voices, like leaves. You’d see dew drops of undisclosed emotions, dampness of their second guesses. A chilly reminder of their unintended forecast for future.
Just like weather, people drop enough hints, sometimes even them being unaware so.
A clear sky into the clouds of unapologetic behavior. We just don’t want to notice it. We think it’s a phase but it’s time for an entire season to change. Before we are ready we are thrown into a blizzard of no-answers. Henceforth, the shivering reaches our bones. And in the end we accept it. Voluntarily or involuntary.
“Hmm… But I still feel winters are hostile intruders. I’m never enough prepared for it or for any coldness whatsoever.”
“That is why we come to watch the sunset more often. To make the most of what we have :-).
So do you like it?”
“What?”
“This! The new sunset point I discovered for you.”
“Geez, all sunset points are beautiful. This one too.”
“C’mon! I know you wanna thank me a hundred times for this one.
What would you do without me?”
“Haha!! I can do better without you.”
Try and you’d know.
“Wait! I have gum. We can eat… Oh!! Where is it? I think I forgot on the park bench :(“
“You keep an extra one in the inner pocket of your bag.”
“Wow! Thanks, ya.”
“Yeah! You don’t need me”
“What are you mumbling?”
“Nothing, let’s move now. It has started to get chilly.”
“Yeah! I’m hungry too. Let’s grab something to eat.”
“Seriously! We ate before coming here. You know, the devil inside you keeps hovering over me for food.”
“Shut up and walk. I don’t….Ow!”
“Careful! That’s another devil that makes you keep stumbling at little stones or inconveniences. I won’t be here always to protect you from falling.”
“Ha ha! Why don’t you shut your devil-mouth for sometime.”
“Naah! Never. As long as you are around”
“Want do you think we should eat. I found another small eatery at the corner of……………”
Excerpts from my journal’s characters
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