“But don’t you think”, I persist, “that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
— Clare Abshire, The Time Traveler’s Wife
an amazing book and a quite awesome movie. and the line reminded me of a phone conversation, something which i so dearly miss. i wonder if this period of latency can bring back a particular period of time when i enjoyed most. when everything was as good as i could've imagined. & we could sit and talk and laugh. about our future, our hopes and fears and our dreams. of random family happenings and squabbles. gossip of every sort. talking about our own friends and their problems. raising our voices a little whenever we disagreed. laughing at our silly persistence over the same old thing over and over again. and your listening because i needed someone to. your story telling, also because i wanted you to. simply because i was bored and felt that i had been talking non-stop. that's also because i wanted to talk myself. being me i never hesitated to speak my mind. and also to think before i spoke. it's a blessing that you also hardly hesitated to agree to my mindless, random and sometimes, out of the mind requests. and the one memorable time just being there was more than enough. because you didn't ask, you didn't probe but you were just there made so much of a difference cos that was all i needed then. & of cos lovers break up and friends drift apart, i believe we'll achieve our hopes and dreams and ambitions and overcome obstacles because we want it enough to do it.
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