Conversations with her

“So whom do you talk to in all these conversation that you have while you are writing this?”

“You, of course, who else is here?”

“But who am I? Just a pigment of your imagination. A self satiating bot who would respond to your thoughts they way you want to!?”

“No, you are a whole person. As alive as any person walking around in their flesh”

“But I don’t have flesh or blood. I don’t exist beyond this conversation. One time I’m in your mind and the next I’m in some random persons mind as a totally different person as they read it. I’m suddenly their idea of a person or rarely I’m just a person that you picture in your crazy head. But I’m seldom complete. I don’t embody anyone. I’m just a few pieces of words stitched together. Thanks to you, I’m mostly meaningless”

“No, you are not. You are meaningful to me. And you mean a lot to me. I don’t know about the reader, but I do know that you exist within me. May be not a entity on your own but you do exist all the time. You should realise that”

“But what is the need for me? Who am I to you? Just a picture of person you like to picture!? May be I’m here till that moment you meet this person and have this conversation with her.”

“You are that person. The one I want to meet. You are not a different person after I meet that one. You don’t go extinct once I meet her. Nor do you come alive when that person moves on. You exist all the time, in me, as a whole person, within me. You are the girl that resides in my heart. You don’t fulfill my needs. I try to meet your demands. You don’t set a bar for a person, an idol I seek. You are that person with their mistakes, imperfect. I hope like as you exist within me, somewhere I exist in someone’s heart. Like I’m part of that conscience or soul, and more of a body here. And may be one day we connect and become each other within each other. Like a subset within a set that is still overlapped. It doesn’t matter if we connect within our lifetime. I’m more than happy to have you within me. And I can only hope she’ll too.”

Conversations with her

“What do you see in her?”

“I don’t see her. I literally haven’t. At least in a while. But even metaphorically I don’t see her. I listen to her. I close my eyes and read through her. I imagine her voice with a million possibilities and when it didn’t synch with what I heard, I cursed myself for not listening properly.”

“But what does the voice got to do with you listening, what crap are you talking about?”

“See, you walk through the forest..”

“You mean you walk through the forest!?”

“No, I mean you. You embody yourself and put yourself in person on some setting such as a forest”

“OK”

“Now what do you see?”

“A way”

“It’s a fucking forest, how do you see a way?”

“But you asked me what I saw, and that’s what i see.. if I should see something in particular tell me then, I’ll go with it”

“Fuck that!”

“No, go on. I’m in the forest”

“You know what, it was much easier when we didn’t know each other that much”

Conversations with her

“What is bothering you so much?”

“You. Your mere existence. The fact that you exist like this shining bright orb in the sky but only a billion miles away. Light years ahead of me and away from me. Eternally moving. Forever graciously. And the only way I could reach you is to lose all that matters and move ahead in light speed. But that won’t be enough. May be I should move faster than light and turn around time and find a better spot in the time-space where we would at least be in proximity of physical reach within our lifetime. Else I could also look for leakage in the continuum and try and slip into some dark spot to find you in some other plane of existence beyond our own.”

“But why!?”

“How would I know? It’s gravity. Maybe. Mere laws of attraction, trying to pull the whole world together. An invisible cloak stitching us into this fabric of existence. Keeping us together and yet far apart. Why would the apple fall from the tree? And not drift and fall far away? I’m no Newton but I’ll like to find out why. Just so that I could sleep in peace and for the love of humanity and bitter curiosity.”

“What’s in it for me then?”

“Pain. As a reminder of your mortal existence. The type you get used to and miss it when it’s gone. The type that seems tough at first and turns pleasurable. Pleasure. If you let it in. And more of it, if you let it devour you. May be a mix of both. But that’s life isn’t it. May be we can experience it in a larger scale. If at all I survive your scorching temperatures and manage to revolve around you, so I could sustain. Else I’m gonna crash and sink and dissolve into the ether.”

Conversations with her

“Why do you do this to yourself?”

“Do what!?”

“This whatever you are doing. This degenerative thing you do to your self..”

“Well…!”

“Why? You obviously seem to know there’s no exit. It’s gonna be one big loop after another until you lose the momentum. Whatever this inner weight you’re pulling isn’t gonna matter for this spin.”

“Yes, I’m aware”

“Then why pull this shit. Drag it longer than its necessary? Why do you need to find the needles out of thin air and bare your chest open to it?”

“Wow, you’re on a roll today!”

“I need an answer, I just need to hear it. For our own satisfaction. Why choose this pain? Why choose this self inflicted sorrow? Aren’t you scared that someday it might kill you!?”

“What doesn’t kill you in here? This smoke, this drink kills. Even this food is gonna kill me. Not today, but someday. This air I breathe, this corrosion in the stem of my being, everything kills. In all this uncertainty in life, death is the only certainty. So everything tends to push you to the edge of life. Even time kills as it passes. And people are so worried about killing time, while it slowly eats up their living soul with boredom. It etches into life, like a woodpecker, tick tock, tick tock. Fuck death. You know how to ruin the taste of death and puke it out of your soul. By living. Without being shit scared every moment of your life. Do what you fear the most. People are so scared of heartbreaks so they choose to be easy. Settle down. I say fuck that. Fall pathetically in love. Love with disgrace. When it fails, succumb to the pain. Embrace that and sink like the simmering star into the dark void. Be blown away into bits and dust. Become stardust. Become life.”