Living one's own dream is a difficult job, a dream that you are seeing it since a long period of time. A dream which stayed awake in your eyes like forever whether you stayed awake or asleep.
However, when it comes to live that dream, many of us will be thinking like...
"right time of doing it will be, after getting retired. Dreams is nothing but just an illusion, we see them while sleeping so let it be like this only, no need to fulfil them."
Imagine, what if you get the chance to live that dream for once.
Whole day I worked hard to find the admission details of the university, where I will be studying in future. I listed out the things or task that I will be doing to begin my study there. It took me around five to six hours to complete my work, including lunch and break time in between.
Around six in the evening, my phone started ringing. I answered the call without reading caller's name..
Me: Hello
Vihaa: Hey kiddo! Wassup?
Me: (Smiling) Nothing much just relaxing.
Vihaa: Will you go to mall and do shopping with me? And we will eat dinner outside.
Me: Yeah sure, let me know the timing so I can get ready accordingly.
Vihaa: Yeah get ready by six thirty sharply and I will pick you up from your house. (She took a brief pause for a minute or two, before speaking a next sentence) And yeah I have a surprise for you.
Me: (Excitedly) Really? Wow. Okay bye, see you soon.
And before she could reply anything else about it I hang up the call hurriedly and start getting ready. While getting ready some random thoughts, start popping up inside my head...
"seriously she has some magic in her bro, just a call and she fill some positivity and excitement in me. And this whole surprise thing is something else, I mean no one knew this that how much I love surprises because they have never given me the one. But just look at her bro, she does it so much that it make me smile widely. Unknowingly she is becoming my light and reason for my happiness."
It took me around less then ten minutes to get ready completely, in the end I pick up my phone, wallet and socks and move outside towards the kitchen to inform my mother that I won't be eating dinner at home, today. As I stepped inside the dining hall, I found her walking in the direction of her room. I walk in her direction, speak a bit loud to for her to hear from distance only..
Me: Mom, I am going outside with Vihaa for shopping and I will be eating dinner there only.
Mother: (Turn around and look at me with a smile on her face) Okay have fun, I hope you have some money for shopping?
Me: (Lied) Yeah, I have enough money for shopping plus for dinner too.
Mother: Okay bye see you soon.
After this we start walking on our own directions, I hastily walk towards the main gate of the house and before leaving the house I start tying my shoes hurriedly. After a minute or so, I open the gate of my house and I found Vihaa waiting for me in her car in front of my house. I close the door, walk towards the car and get myself settled on the passenger seat. As soon as I got settled Vihaa started to drive the car towards our destination.
Rather than talking, we enjoyed the drive in complete silence but soon our moment of silence break with her voice..
Vihaa: (Looking straight on the road) I want you to meet someone.
Me: Okay. And who is that someone?
Vihaa: I met a guy for a marriage purpose, though on our first meeting I don't like him because he was not speaking at all. However, on instance of my father, friends and other family members I met him again and this time we speak for three hours. And you know what he is just like you, at first he just observe then he try to understand how and what to speak. Once he is able to understand and get comfortable with the situation then he speaks up.
Me: Wow, that's great. What is his name?
Vihaa: Zivon.
Me: Beautiful name, one is light and other one is auspicious meaning.
Vihaa: What do you mean?
Me: Your name means an auspicious morning and his name meaning light of god, and the combination of it is beautiful.
Vihaa: (Surprised look in her eyes) Wow, this is really amazing I never thought of it.
Me: Ohh no problem, I just read about it in some book so, I learned about it.
Just like this we keep talking about small things, for rest of the drive. It took us around an hour we reach outside shopping mall which is specially for purchasing sports and adventure related the products. We park the car at the parking lot, soon enter inside the mall and the moment we stepped in I got happy seeing the environment, in front of me all I can see are products related to all sport, gym, trekking and casual wears plus accessories of these included too.
Soon we both started doing shopping, actually she is doing it majorly because I have only two thousand rupees with me and if I buy something with that then I won't be able to pay for dinner. Hence, I decided to not buy anything rather I choose to save that money for the dinner but soon Vihaa said something which surprised and shocked me..
Vihaa: Siya, you can buy anything you want, I will pay for you now and then later you can pay me back.
Me: Ohh no I don't need anything as I have everything with me.
(though mentally I am seeing all of the things kept there like different kind of bottles, cotton t-shirts, footballs, shoes etc. I want to buy all of them but how can I do so with limited money that I have and I won't be able to take it from her or anyone else because I don't like taking favours from others).
Vihaa: Are you excited for the new journey that will be going start soon?
Me: Its fine. I mean what's there to get excited?
Vihaa: Hey, it is something which should excite you because you will meet new people plus you will be studying something which you always wanted to do and become what you desired to be.
Me: (Imaginary) You know, studying psychology really excites me.
Vihaa: Yeah I know and I just want you to live that moment happily. Are you done with the research work?
Me: (Excitedly) O yeah, I have completed it.
And I start telling her the details of the admission process plus other details that I have listed out, she listened to me carefully while doing her shopping. After an hour or so her shopping got over, we leave the mall with three bags in our hand and walk towards the nearby KFC. As soon as we enter inside we sit at the window side table, give our order to waiters and after a minute or so he left the table noting down our orders.
At that moment, the gate of KFC opened again and don't know why but a kind of light wind flow like whoosh sound, touched me. I look up in that direction, I found a guy of same age as Vihaa's enter inside, start walking towards our table and just by looking at him I can feel the light, happiness and peace coming close to me on every step. However, soon my trance break by Vihaa's voice...
Vihaa: Siya!!!!
Me: (Startled a bit and look at her by blinking my eyes twice) Umm yeah
Vihaa: (Looking at Zivon first and then me) This is the boy I told you about a little while ago and Zivon this is Siya my kiddo and a good friend of mine.
Me & Zivon: (Shaking heads) Hey
At this moment passed our order come too.
Zivan: So tell me Siya what you do?
Me: For now I am waiting for my graduation result to come.
Zivan: That's great.
After this we eat our food silently but one of the most and comfortable thing in this, is that they both are decent couple. I mean they are not showing any kind of physical display of affection towards each other except some moments where Zivon cleaning Vihaa's mouth, whenever extra sauce got there. And honestly I found this cute, he is very caring, understand and perfect gentleman.
Just like this whole dinner got completed, I leave a bit early to give them some personal space by making a excuse of call. I walk towards her car, leaned on the driving and start playing game on my phone. I may have waited for ten minutes or so, both of them come outside walking side by side. Soon they both bid their goodbyes to each other, Zivon look at my side waved me a goodbye with a slight nod and a smile and I do the same.
As soon as he move towards his car, Vihaa come near her car, together Zivon and we leave towards different directions of our homes.
While we driving the car, Vihaa initiated the conversation..
Vihaa: So how is he?
Me: Caring, understanding and a perfect gentleman. He is really a good person.
Vihaa: Really?
Me: Yeah and you know so.
Vihaa: (Smiling) Yeah I know it just I want you or my other friends to know about him. You know I am not quite sure about him for now but somehow I just know he is good for me.
Me: I got it and I can understand.
After this we both sit silently but as usual thoughts start popping up in my head.
Bro, seeing Vihaa like this is quite strange. She always seem to be confident and never needed any kind advice or others view point to understand something but look at it now.
Just like this we both reach back our homes around nine, as I enter inside my house and the entire house was completely silent which is something quite normal as everyone has a habit to retire in their rooms early.
However, ignoring all this I directly walk towards my parents room as I wanted to tell father about the admission process. Rather then knocking on the door I directly walk inside the room and found him busy on the call even my mother is busy too in watching TV. I took a deep breath close the door behind me, walk more deeply in the room then I sit on the empty chair and patiently waiting for my father to hang up the call so, I could talk to him.
Though, for me waiting is more like a punishment because I am a very impatient person. Seconds passed to minutes but father keep talking on the phone, I take my phone out from my pocket and start playing with it plus in between keep checking the time, this way I come to know I am waiting for him to hang up the call from thirty minutes. However, after five minutes or so, he hang up the call and seeing this I initiated the conversation immediately..
Me: Father I want to tell you something about admission process.
Father: (Keep looking something in his phone) Not right now, we will talk about it tomorrow because I am busy and tired too.
Me: But father....
Father: (Look directly at me with no emotions) Do what I say, leave the room now.
Me: Okay.
All of my excitement gone, imagine this you wanted to tell someone about your little achievement or want to share what have you learned today but they are not interested to listen or spend time with you and that someone is your parent. How would it feel?
Honestly, I don't know about others but what I am feeling right now is completely disheartened, defeated. All I want to do is to hide somewhere in the corner and just stay there forever in complete silence but my other self wanted to shout out loud, to let everyone listen what I wanted to say