“You know what? Happiness is just hiding beyond those clouds which are rotating in the skies above your head. Can you jump and put aside those clouds?”
“No, it is difficult. My height is so short” I replied.
He smiled for a while and spoke “Your jokes make me happy though!”
Smile, I always do. But, I smile more when we meet. He, my friend, smiles more, becomes happy at small things. Don’t care about many things, but knows how to streamline his pros and cons.
“Sir Tea!” Tea staller came and handed hot cups of tea to each of us.
“So how is everything going on? Did you go the place where you were planning to go since last 8 months?” he again asked.
I smiled. But with a saddened “No.”
“Let it be. Did you purchase that electric guitar which you were planning to purchase since last 4 months?”
I again replied, this time a bit more saddened, “No.”
He was smiling at both the answers. But again asked, “Did you watch that movie which you were telling me that you would since last 15 days?”
Again it was “NO.”
He then laughed. “No worries. I watched that movie which you were talking about! But tell me, what did you do?”
I smiled, this time at me. Really! What did I do? Despite of regular work and some personal stuffs, the time I spend was by thinking about these things and wondering if I could be able to do same someday! He kept on reminding me about them in our each week’s meet, but it repeated again and again.
I noticed him as he was seriously gazing at me when I was in the thoughts.
I woke him up from his thoughts and said “It was my part to be serious, but it seems you are more serious now. What happened?”
Slowly I could see the tears rolling down through his cheeks. I went closer and hugged him! “It’s ok. Sometimes, the source of inspiration becomes week himself”.
“I do remember her and her sayings Selwin! More or less, I keep on saying myself, not to think about her, not to cry for her! But, sometimes it happens. Sometime we can’t control! Sometimes we cannot devote ourselves to those places where we want us to be! Sometimes, life is just like flow of the river, we can’t control, we cannot stop!” He was too emotional!
“Same is the case brother, I can’t find myself a better place to live my dreams sometimes! So those things are missing and deferred. The only thing we can do for betterment is remind those things as you do to me weekly and go with the flow. May be they are kept in our luck in some other lightened days. This is why we meet, to evaluate and smile together.”
He smiled, after a cry, after so many emotions. I did too. While he came towards me after paying the amount for tea, he jumped and said “But I am taller than you, I can put those clouds aside and be happy!”