The unread message

I switch on the AC and try to catch some sleep after a busy day of college or rather a busy day ‘outside the college’. The mobile shows an unread message. It is a casual message asking me about the bad headache I had in the morning. But it’s not the message but the sender of the message that catches my eye. I close my eyes and rewind back to the memories associated with the person. A few months back we were in love with each other and now we are just friends with each other.

I really cannot put down her qualities that attracted me towards her. Maybe it was her simplicity or the contagious smile that brought me close to her. I believe it was my luck that we started interacting a lot and actually started to enjoy each others company. I cannot put a time frame as to when we started liking each other very much and ended up in a relationship. As expected, the initial months were like magical where everything was fun and good. We used to never get bored talking to each other and confided almost everything to each other. The coffee shops and food joints were like the classrooms for us where we spent the maximum time. But as it is said that ‘All that glitters is not gold’, we also had the rough patch where everything was actually ‘on the rocks’. The times spent were increasingly becoming less and even if we met we were very tired to have a casual conversation. This then became a daily issue and rather a frustrating one also. So we decided to end our relationship and just remain friends with each other


Is it really possible for us to be just friends with the person with whom we have had a relationship? Will there be no awkwardness between us? Relationships are like a piece of glass which when broken can be joined together but the crack will always be there. How is it possible for us to simply forget the true feelings for the person and just look at them as a friend? If that is the case then we are chameleons of the human race that can change their colors or feelings according to the situation. Every person we come across in our life has an impact in our life. No matter what happens, the actual feelings about the person remain unchanged. Faking true emotions is a quality that every individual posses at some level or the other. We can slowly convince the people around us that we are good friends with them but deep inside we are still struggling to accept this new relation. There is nothing that can be done about this situation rather to accept that things can never be the same again. That is life, as we can see and no matter what u want to change it will still remain the same.

I just smile at the message and close it and get back to sleep. I know that when I wake up there will be another message waiting for me…..