"Get up little bro", Sam said hitting Jim on the back of his head.
"Pack your stuff soon, we are leaving in 15min for Goa, and YOU are coming with us."
Jim woke up rubbing and hiding his eyes, sore and red from the previous nights crying and sobbing.His girlfriend had just ditched him for another guy. But he had not told anyone about it.
"Huh... no Sam, its 'your' trip with your 'your' friends... what will i do there", replied Jim trying to avoid being dragged into this trip. At this moment in his life, all he needed was some peace and alone time to think things through.
"Oh Come on ! ... your are talking as if u dont know them, as if you have never been out with us before, cmon man...NO more questions and just pack your things quickly, dont make us wait. See you down in 15min, not a min more. Now HURRY up you dickhead", replied Sam packing the last few things of his own as he spoke.
A few hours ride in the bus and Jim was already feeling weird. He was in a relationship for more than a year now. He loved Nidhi so much, but somehow somewhere things dont go as you plan and Nidhi soon realised that only love is not enough. If life is to be lived, love can be put aside for more materialistic things and that is what everyone does and so did she. She tried hard to explain to Jim, but getting your heart broken was really quite painful for a guy like Jim.
Sam and his friends were at the back of the bus, singing along, hurling abuses at each other.
Jim forced a smile. "It works really", Nidhi had told him once. "When you feel sad, all you need to do is force a smile on your face and your brain will release happy hormones", she had said.
Jim forced his smile wider, looked outside the window. The bus speeding past the green canopy and the fresh breeze hitting his face, blowing his hair, as if trying to wash away all the memories of Nidhi from his head. He was feeling better now. Jim lost track when his eyes had shut and they reached Goa a few hours later.
It was bright and hot as usual and they were thristy already.
"Sam, lets go drink something. I am thirsty. I think I saw a fruit juice centre at the corner", Jim said unloading his bags. Sam and his buddies started laughing loudly as soon as Jim had finished.
"Dude, you dont come all the way to Goa just to fruit juice, here we are going to have different kind of juices", Sam said winking at his buddies who were leaving out for a smoke.
"Now, come on, we are heading for the beach, Change soon.", Sam replied. Jim was not feeling too enthu about this trip. As he was slowly unpacking stuff.
"Hurry up Jim, and just forget her man, shit happens."Sam said startling him.
"huhhhhh... How did you know", Jim asked surprised and a bit angry.
"I am your brother dude, now dont feel sad and all, let it go", Sam replied.
Jim threw his shirt banging on the bed hard more angry with himself for not able to control his own emotions.
"DONT tell me what to feel, all my fking life people have been telling me i do things wrong that i am the fking asshole...even she said it once ....and i look around and i see everybody else are more infintely fked up than i am, all your friends and even you Sam, even you", Jim said now on his knees near the bed.
Sam smiled came to him and pressed both his hands on Jim's cheeks and ear tightly and looked straight into his eyes and said "Let it go, bro". And walked outside with his friends for a quick smoke.
The beach was crowded, people seemed to have descended from everypart of the world here. Sam and his friends were already in the water for a swim. Laughing screaming splashing water on each other. Jim followed them carefully inside. A few minutes in the water and he really felt relaxed. "Let it go, bro", Sams words kept ringing inside his ears as he took deep breaths. Fun, laughter, abuses, sun tan, waves, and a nice view all around made him feel better, much better now.
Time soon passed and the sun began to set. In a few hours, Jim found himself sipping from a coconut after having survived the relentless persuasion from all of Sam's friends to try beer or feni or any other thing they were offering. It was only after Sam's intervention that his friends shut up. They were around a bonfire watching the sun go down, holding onto their beer bottles and just staring blankly at the sea.
"This is life", one of his friend said."the 3 Bs... Beer Babes and Beaches".
"Fuck you man, you are high.", replied Sam.
"Alcohol is poison", replied another taking one large gulp himself.
"Then why do you drink it?", Jim interuptted him and everyone just stared as if since he spoke after a really long time, and also because none of them could think of a proper answer.
"Because there are things inside us, we want to kill", replied Sam in one go.
"yaa", "cheers to that" ,"You rock Sam", echoing in the background.
"When you find that one person who connects you to the world...you become someone different..someone better but when that person is taken away from you...what do you become then?", Jim continued.
"Dude, when your cellphone connection or reception is not good, what do you do then, just get a new connection dude", replied one.
"i didnt understand which connection are we talking about", replied another.
"Airtel, Vodafone, Idea", replied the third.
"kismat konnection", replied the fourth.
"HAHA" "Awesome" " Pathetic" " Abey Chu ", echoing in the backgrond.
"OH SHUT UP all of you." ordered Sam. "Jim, bro, look around, what do you got to feel miserable about", Sam replied pointing to the beach, the waves, the sky above their heads and nice hot looking firang babes walking around in bikinis on the beaches. .
"THIS is enuf ?" , he said.
"Welcome to the world where time stands still, where beer flows and always will
where there is no pain and your heart never aches, and you can fuck till your dick's content",
Sam replied in a very shakespearen tone.
"Bravo" , " "WOW that was awesome" "i love u sam" " GAy sala" echocing in the background.
Jim went quiet.Sam put a hand on his shoulder and spoke.
"Look bro, life is a bitch, it will keep throwing you in situtaions like the one you are facing, but come on, everyone has gone through it, I have, all these bastards have too at one point or another", he said pointing to his friends. "But that does not mean you can give up on life, The girl left you for someone else, so ? You had your special moments right? The important thing is that you had her in your life. The duration is really not in your hands. People come and go. Very few stay. Look at all of us here. At this moment of time, we are here together sipping on beer, five years from now, i am sure we all will be in different places. Life is such bro. Change is inevitable. There is no thing as one love or true love. Love is what we make it to be. Love is what we build, it does not self create itself. As a matter of fact, i sometimes doubt if there is such a thing called love at all, from the way I see it, it is mostly something of a habit. You get used to seeing someone everyday, meeting someone everyday, that you become habituated to her and then that is what we mistake to be love. Well, that is my version of it. Even if there is something called love, you should be happy that you got it. You loved her with all your heart right, well she would be the one who would be missing you and your true love, not the other way round, so move on buddy."
There was an awkward silence which followed.
Jim trying to figure out if this was Sam talking or his beer.
Sams friends were trying to figure out what was being said, it was too much of an information to handle when their processors had been slowed down due to the beer.
Finally they spoke .
"Wow.." "Awesome" "You are high dude" "what the fuk was that" echoing in the background.
"Yaa Jim, just forget her man", replied one lying on his back staring at the sky.
"yaa look around, there are so many fishes in the sea", replied another
"yaa one train goes, another comes", replied the third
"yaa one goes ... uhhh ... " the fourth got stuck.
"HAHAHA...he is high." "HAHAHAH" ... Jim laughed at that too.
"Shut up assholes, i am trying to remember".
"HAHAHHAHAHAH ".... more laughter followed.
"haan... one girl goes, another girl comes, so forget the girl like i did", the fourth finally managed to utter something.
"its not so simple, but he will one day, what was your story bevde?:, Sam asked him.
"Hmmm .. well buddy she wanted something different in a relationship"
"What did she want", Jim enquired.
"Me"
what did you want", Jim enquired again now confused.
"Me"..."And we both could not have ME".
Roars of laughter filled the night air and this time Jim joined in too.
"This is the first time you smiled since morning bro, cheers to that", Sam replied banging his beer bottle to the coconut Jim was holding.
"Sam ... Sorry about the outburst this morning", Jim said.
"Hey come on little bro", Sam replied. Always there for you.
"Can i have a sip", Jim asked pointing to the bottle Sam was holding onto.
Sam was surprised,"You sure", he asked.
"Yes man, life is too short to miss out on all the fun", Jim replied.
"well.. ok, but first you need to throw your stupid coconut away.", Sam replied leaving other laughing.
As the sun set down, Jim thought to himself. " Tomorrow is another day , A new start, A new life", he said sipping on the beer, feeling at peace finally.
"Pack your stuff soon, we are leaving in 15min for Goa, and YOU are coming with us."
Jim woke up rubbing and hiding his eyes, sore and red from the previous nights crying and sobbing.His girlfriend had just ditched him for another guy. But he had not told anyone about it.
"Huh... no Sam, its 'your' trip with your 'your' friends... what will i do there", replied Jim trying to avoid being dragged into this trip. At this moment in his life, all he needed was some peace and alone time to think things through.
"Oh Come on ! ... your are talking as if u dont know them, as if you have never been out with us before, cmon man...NO more questions and just pack your things quickly, dont make us wait. See you down in 15min, not a min more. Now HURRY up you dickhead", replied Sam packing the last few things of his own as he spoke.
A few hours ride in the bus and Jim was already feeling weird. He was in a relationship for more than a year now. He loved Nidhi so much, but somehow somewhere things dont go as you plan and Nidhi soon realised that only love is not enough. If life is to be lived, love can be put aside for more materialistic things and that is what everyone does and so did she. She tried hard to explain to Jim, but getting your heart broken was really quite painful for a guy like Jim.
Sam and his friends were at the back of the bus, singing along, hurling abuses at each other.
Jim forced a smile. "It works really", Nidhi had told him once. "When you feel sad, all you need to do is force a smile on your face and your brain will release happy hormones", she had said.
Jim forced his smile wider, looked outside the window. The bus speeding past the green canopy and the fresh breeze hitting his face, blowing his hair, as if trying to wash away all the memories of Nidhi from his head. He was feeling better now. Jim lost track when his eyes had shut and they reached Goa a few hours later.
It was bright and hot as usual and they were thristy already.
"Sam, lets go drink something. I am thirsty. I think I saw a fruit juice centre at the corner", Jim said unloading his bags. Sam and his buddies started laughing loudly as soon as Jim had finished.
"Dude, you dont come all the way to Goa just to fruit juice, here we are going to have different kind of juices", Sam said winking at his buddies who were leaving out for a smoke.
"Now, come on, we are heading for the beach, Change soon.", Sam replied. Jim was not feeling too enthu about this trip. As he was slowly unpacking stuff.
"Hurry up Jim, and just forget her man, shit happens."Sam said startling him.
"huhhhhh... How did you know", Jim asked surprised and a bit angry.
"I am your brother dude, now dont feel sad and all, let it go", Sam replied.
Jim threw his shirt banging on the bed hard more angry with himself for not able to control his own emotions.
"DONT tell me what to feel, all my fking life people have been telling me i do things wrong that i am the fking asshole...even she said it once ....and i look around and i see everybody else are more infintely fked up than i am, all your friends and even you Sam, even you", Jim said now on his knees near the bed.
Sam smiled came to him and pressed both his hands on Jim's cheeks and ear tightly and looked straight into his eyes and said "Let it go, bro". And walked outside with his friends for a quick smoke.
The beach was crowded, people seemed to have descended from everypart of the world here. Sam and his friends were already in the water for a swim. Laughing screaming splashing water on each other. Jim followed them carefully inside. A few minutes in the water and he really felt relaxed. "Let it go, bro", Sams words kept ringing inside his ears as he took deep breaths. Fun, laughter, abuses, sun tan, waves, and a nice view all around made him feel better, much better now.
Time soon passed and the sun began to set. In a few hours, Jim found himself sipping from a coconut after having survived the relentless persuasion from all of Sam's friends to try beer or feni or any other thing they were offering. It was only after Sam's intervention that his friends shut up. They were around a bonfire watching the sun go down, holding onto their beer bottles and just staring blankly at the sea.
"This is life", one of his friend said."the 3 Bs... Beer Babes and Beaches".
"Fuck you man, you are high.", replied Sam.
"Alcohol is poison", replied another taking one large gulp himself.
"Then why do you drink it?", Jim interuptted him and everyone just stared as if since he spoke after a really long time, and also because none of them could think of a proper answer.
"Because there are things inside us, we want to kill", replied Sam in one go.
"yaa", "cheers to that" ,"You rock Sam", echoing in the background.
"When you find that one person who connects you to the world...you become someone different..someone better but when that person is taken away from you...what do you become then?", Jim continued.
"Dude, when your cellphone connection or reception is not good, what do you do then, just get a new connection dude", replied one.
"i didnt understand which connection are we talking about", replied another.
"Airtel, Vodafone, Idea", replied the third.
"kismat konnection", replied the fourth.
"HAHA" "Awesome" " Pathetic" " Abey Chu ", echoing in the backgrond.
"OH SHUT UP all of you." ordered Sam. "Jim, bro, look around, what do you got to feel miserable about", Sam replied pointing to the beach, the waves, the sky above their heads and nice hot looking firang babes walking around in bikinis on the beaches. .
"THIS is enuf ?" , he said.
"Welcome to the world where time stands still, where beer flows and always will
where there is no pain and your heart never aches, and you can fuck till your dick's content",
Sam replied in a very shakespearen tone.
"Bravo" , " "WOW that was awesome" "i love u sam" " GAy sala" echocing in the background.
Jim went quiet.Sam put a hand on his shoulder and spoke.
"Look bro, life is a bitch, it will keep throwing you in situtaions like the one you are facing, but come on, everyone has gone through it, I have, all these bastards have too at one point or another", he said pointing to his friends. "But that does not mean you can give up on life, The girl left you for someone else, so ? You had your special moments right? The important thing is that you had her in your life. The duration is really not in your hands. People come and go. Very few stay. Look at all of us here. At this moment of time, we are here together sipping on beer, five years from now, i am sure we all will be in different places. Life is such bro. Change is inevitable. There is no thing as one love or true love. Love is what we make it to be. Love is what we build, it does not self create itself. As a matter of fact, i sometimes doubt if there is such a thing called love at all, from the way I see it, it is mostly something of a habit. You get used to seeing someone everyday, meeting someone everyday, that you become habituated to her and then that is what we mistake to be love. Well, that is my version of it. Even if there is something called love, you should be happy that you got it. You loved her with all your heart right, well she would be the one who would be missing you and your true love, not the other way round, so move on buddy."
There was an awkward silence which followed.
Jim trying to figure out if this was Sam talking or his beer.
Sams friends were trying to figure out what was being said, it was too much of an information to handle when their processors had been slowed down due to the beer.
Finally they spoke .
"Wow.." "Awesome" "You are high dude" "what the fuk was that" echoing in the background.
"Yaa Jim, just forget her man", replied one lying on his back staring at the sky.
"yaa look around, there are so many fishes in the sea", replied another
"yaa one train goes, another comes", replied the third
"yaa one goes ... uhhh ... " the fourth got stuck.
"HAHAHA...he is high." "HAHAHAH" ... Jim laughed at that too.
"Shut up assholes, i am trying to remember".
"HAHAHHAHAHAH ".... more laughter followed.
"its not so simple, but he will one day, what was your story bevde?:, Sam asked him.
"Hmmm .. well buddy she wanted something different in a relationship"
"What did she want", Jim enquired.
"Me"
what did you want", Jim enquired again now confused.
"Me"..."And we both could not have ME".
Roars of laughter filled the night air and this time Jim joined in too.
"This is the first time you smiled since morning bro, cheers to that", Sam replied banging his beer bottle to the coconut Jim was holding.
"Sam ... Sorry about the outburst this morning", Jim said.
"Hey come on little bro", Sam replied. Always there for you.
"Can i have a sip", Jim asked pointing to the bottle Sam was holding onto.
Sam was surprised,"You sure", he asked.
"Yes man, life is too short to miss out on all the fun", Jim replied.
"well.. ok, but first you need to throw your stupid coconut away.", Sam replied leaving other laughing.
As the sun set down, Jim thought to himself. " Tomorrow is another day , A new start, A new life", he said sipping on the beer, feeling at peace finally.
