(Spoiler: NSFW)
The Love for all living
creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
~The Descent of Man by
Charles Darwin.
"Whenever I get
drunk, I miss her like hell. God my head is aching and I swear I will never
have another shot of vodka or rum in the next party..!! I swear..!" Are
the words of Ram, my best friend upon waking up at 2pm on any given Sunday
which had been his weekly routine from the past 3 months. He's been suffering
from some distress off late which I have been observing but couldn't push him
to spill the beans.
Prelude:
Whenever people spoke
about best friends, Ram and I were the only topic they could think of. We had
been friends for God knows how long from childhood, and I knew exactly how Ram
would behave in different situations.
Being a very bright
person with morals and ethics right from his childhood, he was always the
paragon for children in our locality. People would follow him blindly for they
believed that Ram would never go wrong in anything that he does and he always
lived up to their expectations. Never had he disappointed anyone in anything,
he was the ideal person.
This virtue made him an
ace in any field that he chose, and I being his ardent worshiper, always used
to follow him wherever he went and this went on until we had completed our
bachelor’s degree and joined the same office.
It had been two years
since we had joined office and Ram had already received accolades from the top
management for his work. Being awarded the best employee of the year, he was
now the star of the multibillion dollar company and everyone looked on his
performance and secretly wanted to be like him and I was one among them. There
were admirers of his work and there were people who were jealous but
nonetheless he was the star.
But life is not all bed
of roses, and this is true even for the most successful people. For the past
four months I had been observing the changing attitude of Ram, he was not
socializing as he used to and was always keeping to himself. People who once
found him as a fierce competition in the office started ignoring him, and Ram
who was once a star started losing his charm and started fading away, he
started spending most of his time strolling in the office canteen busy
scrolling down on WhatsApp or Facebook and feeling distressed. It looked as if
he had lost some valuable part of his life.
In knew that a man could
go so low only in two issues, one is money and the other is a woman. Ram was
attractive with muscular body type that most of the woman desire secretly in
their fantasies, and I knew from childhood that he less cared about girls or
women, so I obviously thought that he was being bothered by money.
So I started thinking in
that direction. He had this habit of investing in shares and his interest for
share market was very high, so I initially thought that he must have lost a
huge chunk of money and I felt he was brooding over those issues. So I started
bringing up the issues about the latest developments in the share market to
give him fresh insights on the market but his behavior was erratic and he never
bothered about the market and used to stare constantly at his phone. I now felt
that something seriously was going on in his life and I even went to imagine if
he was being threatened by goons in the share market and I seriously wanted to
help him.
I wanted to dig deep
into this to find out the reason which kept him shackled to this misery.
It was a Friday evening
and he was looking into his mobile as usual and I saw him getting frustrated
over people bantering over where to hangout for the Friday night and I was
observing him and noticed an unusual distress in his face and in this
frustration he started walking briskly towards the office elevator away from
his cabin, and in this process he forgot his mobile at the office desk and
reached out to his bike to escape the chatter among us.
I found this as an
opportunity to sneak into his privacy to find out what has been bothering him
so much these days. I initially started out looking for contacts which where
strange enough for me, I knew most of his friends so I could immediately point
out if any contact was strange enough in his list but I couldn't find anything
of that sort. Then I started looking into his gallery to find out if he was
being threatened by any obscene pictures as it is common these days for the
cyber criminals to attack anyone for money but I was out of luck, he was being
cautious enough by deleting all the media as and when he would receive and so I
checked his Facebook feed but in vain and as a last resort I was scrolling
quickly through the Whatsapp, I knew I wouldn't find anything out of box so I
was about to close the app and place the phone at the place from where I picked
it up and it was then that something struck me as a million volt jolt.
It was that picture,
seeing which I was dumbstruck. I couldn't move an inch and all I could do was
look at it with perplexed mind. Everything was the same except for the name. It
was then that I knew what was bothering him so much and everything fell into its
place. My mind revved and took me back to the college memories.
I immediately realized
that it was not money neither fear nor pain. I was wrong in thinking that there's
always these three reasons behind a man's success or failure, there is one more
element which has the power to unite or devastate a man.
It blew my brains when I
came to know that it was much more dangerous than these two elements, and it
was none other than "LOVE".
It took time for me to
come out of the shock, I had read about people going crazy for love even to the
extent of attempting suicide but had never experienced it with any of my
friends, but for the first time I felt that LOVE really has a long lasting
effect on people.
I had to act quickly
else I knew I wouldn't be able to bring back the old Ram, for Love has adverse
effects on people who fail in it.
I knew it was her and
she was back and this time she is going to be there in his mind for a very long
time. I knew I was going to have a difficult time in bringing him out of that situation,
and so I started thinking when and where it had all started, and as I looked
back into time, I knew I would have to start from the juvenile days of my
bachelor’s degree where we were all young and untouched by the cupid.
I wanted to dig deep into
this to find out the reason which kept him shackled to this misery.
3 years back.....
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