After a month of studying English and Math for my gre (which i couldn't give thanks to the passport office jerks) and the long awaited marriage marathon in Mumbai (which by the way absolutely rocked)... i'm back in the tiny town of Manipal, only this time my 3 crazy ass roomys are back home celebrating Christmas n all set to enter the New Year while I'm hanging onto my seat in the bus (read roller-coaster) to Karkala (a village in the Udupi district) which welcomes me with the cacophony of new borns n their clueless mothers who are almost always younger than me (scary)...
Now something about me one must know, I'm one of those people who hates not having someone to talk to... and since right now, at this very moment, my buddy from Bangalore who kept me company almost the whole day is and NEEDS TO study & AXN is taking too many breaks between Fast n the Furious, I've decided to talk to ya'll........... so listen up people....Today i'm gonna tell you the story about how I lived my life back when I'd just moved to Bangalore......
YEAR: 1990-something.......
STORY SO FAR: We had just moved to Bangalore from Mumbai n i had this funky picture in my head of the new city.... But in a couple of days i realised I hated Bangalore.... the city shut down at 8 (not anymore though).... it did not have beaches....i had no friends to keep me company at home, the youngest resident in our apartment was diagnosed of osteoporosis... i had no idea why my school teacher kept yelling at me for not understanding Kannada in Kannada...... i din't give a shit about Vin Diesel, Paul Walker or fast cars.............. so basically i was 8 and i was in hell.
thats when came Maximus and Grace when i needed them the most, they were my imaginary friends (yeah i knew they were imaginary all along) and i still truthfully do not remember how they entered my life, one fine day they were there and i was glad they were :)
They were dogs.. Golden retrievers... they had the silkiest fur n loudest bark n were the coolest dogs on the face of this earth, i assure u.. :)
Now i know most of you may think i'm a cuckoo-case but i wasn't.. i was just plain lonely and desperate... and as a nine year old (i think its around that time they came) this was what kept me from completely losing my sanity... Nobody knew they existed... In fact this is the first time i'm actually telling somebody about them... not because they embarrassed me bu
t because i didn't want people n kids laugh at me... My brother had an imaginary friend too n i've seen adults joke about it, and i know they didn't mean any harm but i didn't want them doing it to mine... simple.
Anyway Max came first (only i was allowed to call him Max... cos he was MY dog 8) ) and then came Grace because Max would get lonely when i was at school... They were trained, never needed a leash n followed me around almost everywhere i went... they grew with me i think because no matter how tall i grew i could always feel their furry head n wet noses at my fingertips :)
i remember once my mum asked me why i was walking around the house aimlessly and i didn't know what to tell her (she'd freak if i said 'relax just taking the dogs for a walk :D'), i ended up saying "i'm thinking".... she rolled her eyes n claimed i came up with the weirdest excuses for not wanting to sit quietly and she got back to cooking :)
For all those wondering if they're still around.. no they aren't... Max got hit by a car and bled to death... me and Grace buried him in a park... it broke our hearts...... Grace, well, she died as well in a few weeks, i don't really remember how that happened, one morning she was gone... i grew up and my brain killed her...
At times like this when i'm all alone, i remember the 3 of us together...
i miss them... so much.
Its okay... if you need to...
You can run, but you can never hide...
From the shadow thats creeping up beside you...
And theres a magic running through your soul...
But you can't have it all...
Whatever you do... I'll be two steps behind you...
Wherever you go... I'll be there to remind you...
That it only takes a minute of your precious time,
to turn around... I'll be two steps behind..."
- Def Leppard
...yeah sometimes my life does have a theme song...
