The ephemeral happiness

Sometimes you want to leave this world behind and do things which looks little odd but surely feels right. Those are the moments which touches you and you would like to remember it for the rest of your life.

Something like this happened to me a few days back. It was a regular office day and little bored with the usual stuff, I thought to go back home and watch Tv. On my way back, I met a friend and we started the routine conversation. She has a pleasant personality and is a very good person to talk to. Its been more than a year I know her, but I had never asked her out. She looked interested, little excited and we planned to go on a drive.

Little influenced by romanticism I decided to take her to an exotic lake side restaurant. We had a very nice and interesting conversation perfectly blended with right amount of liquor. We talked about many things, discussed common friends, likings and dislikings, and then she asked me to describe what I like in her. There was a void of expression from my side. I like her the way she is, but to pin-point something was not easy for me. Its not that I do not have any impression of her. After thinking really deep I was able to point some of her personality traits which impress me everytime I meet her.

After dinner we decided to go for coffee at Cafe Coffee Day. Thats the only decent place to go late in the night besides the lavish coffee shops of 5 star hotels. She mentioned that she can remain out for 1 more hour and then I will have to drop her home. This 1 hour went so fast before we realized that she is already late. I never wanted to let her go home and so tried to convince her for a night out with me. I felt even she does not want to go back but I had to market the night out idea to keep her assured that its worth it.

It took me a while to convince her but than I had no idea what to do. We went to railway station in search of a restaurant to sit in, where she deeply or markedly influenced me with her distinguishing quality. She asked me to catch the train going towards Mumbai and we decided to go to Lonavala. It was around 2 a.m. and she wasnt having fear of any kind. Her wild and exciting behavior was driving me crazy. We reached lonavala in an hour and then roamed around little bit near station.

It wasnt looking very safe so we decided to come back to station and sat very close to each other on a bench holding each others hand. It was very late in the night and mosquitos with long proboscis were piercing the skin to keep us awake. We were waiting for the first light of the day. We got up before dawn and went out of station but to the different side this time.

It was a beautiful natural scenery, which was acting as a catalyst in developing an intimate relationship. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air were reducing the visibility. I tried to embrace her in my arms with fondness. Her long hair flowed down her back and I felt little helpless lying in her arms. I wanted to hug her tight but was afraid of revealing my feelings. The gracious morning walk, developed an attitude of admiration for her.

We came back to Pune early morning, picked my car from station and I went to drop her. Both of us were very quite on our way back home as if something is going to end. Probably that was an ephemeral happiness.