Rant 244 : Diffuser

There are some people, some places and a few moments – that keep acting as your diffusers for all times to come. You don’t need them to be with you alongside always. Just a brief moment of association is also more than enough to savour things for life. Whenever life sucks you in deep burrows of despair, it is these moments that act as the life-saving elixirs for all of us. When tears fill your eyes, it is these moments that hold the tears upto the brim for the longest and help you pursue different methods of dealing with your issues.

“3^rd, 4^th or 5^th?”

“Umm, 4^th?”, she replied.

“Hahahaah, no wrong! 3^rd it is”, I replied as I laughed back.

“Who are the first two?”, She asked.

“That’s not important, what is important, that you’re the third thing that I look for always”.

“un – hn”.

Why do I keep people pinned up in my life as per their importance? Does it make things easier for me or complicated or even messed up? Well, to be sure – I am not aware and I will never want to know. Most of us feel confident about thing only till they do not know about it inside out. To know things inside out and still be confident about it – it heavenly. It is beyond worldly logic. Such things must be embraced and embraced for life.

It is these things that bring great relief and great empathy to you, even in their absence.

Years later, when things take an ugly turn, all you need to do is to extend hand and seek these “Pinned people” in your life. They will have all the medication you need to recover and pull yourself up within no time. And please note, you don’t need them physically or even remotely connected to help you heal. All the moments that you’ve spent with them, all the attached memories, they are bloody enough to help you push through.

“Hey, long time. Ummm, how are you?”, I met her across the daily market in the city I was freshly posted in.

“Hey, what a pleasant surprise! Pretty long since we met last time”, I responded while trying to come to terms that she was right there infront of me.

“Yea, you never know, 3^rd, 4^th or 5^th?” she asked.

“1^st”.

She still was the best diffuser I could ever have.

Always Ranting, Rantzaada.