Voyage

          I remember it was a scorching noon. During my school days, when I along with my newly made friends (all credits to commerce-science fencing) were standing in the school ground, all of a sudden one of them asked me, “You asked her to take care, while she was just a step away from her class.”

“Yeah! So?” I said and looked in an absurd way towards him.

“You love her a lot, right?” he was quick to fire me back with answer. I just blushed and smiled a bit without uttering a single word from my mouth.

          It has been around 3 years since then and around 2 years when I last talked to and pampered her. Over past few years, I have gone through it all, from love turn hatred, relationship to single, friends turn enemies and freedom turned responsibilities.

Love gives us a lot of reasons to smile and live a better life than ever before. But as it is said,

          ‘Everything in this world come with a price tag,’ so does love.  It makes you weak, dependent and emotional. And if once lost, it is lost forever. You become a slave to your infatuations.

I remember myself to be of the second kind, one who ended up with tears, cuts on that ivory skin, scratched knees and scars on face. I nearly lost myself in smoke of cigars, shots of vodka and whiff of cocaine. But all credit goes to one of my friend who guided me when I was crawling down the lanes on my knees to pull me up and send me to the voyage of eternity.

          Some love to be in a relationship while others love the freedom of being single. One knows, being in a relationship makes you feel weak once you are done, whereas living single makes you independent and strong-hearted. Still there is something special about it that makes us attracted towards this concept of relationship again and again. No, I don’t think its sex. If it had to be the same, brothels would have served us better and knows maybe we could have another GB Roads ‘The Land of Pink Nipples’ across the town. After all having sex and making love are two completely parallel things.

          It’s something else that makes you feel fresh and special every morning. It’s ultimately love, care and lightness to share your secrets. And the same good feeling leaves you broken once you are done. But intelligent is the one who does not get thrown away in the storm of feelings instead channelize that energy. May be someday you could use that sense of love in a better way, to help masses. Mark Zuckerberg (Co-Founder Facebook) and Vikram Sarabhai (Founder IIM-Ahemdabad) did channelize that energy for good now it’s your turn. I personally found literature and writing as my drug in pain maybe someday, when I have my standards raised, I wished to be seen as combination of J. Prakash Narayan, JP Morgan and Leonardo Da Vinci.

-Aryan Agarwal