February 21, 2006
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Evening Talks Two
Introduction. From a previous post.
This is a talk between two strangers meeting at work place. They decide to live together and all these are talks between them in the evenings when they sit in the couch and watch T.V or movies or listen to music.
The 'I' here is a depiction of myself. Jennifer is the favorite name of mine so I gave that name to this fictitious character. This character may take characteristics of many women. Most of the time she will be just talking to me her mind, through that I will try to express what I feel about contemporary events.
I will try my best to update the Evening Talks when it is ready. Sometime it will be daily or every other day or sometimes it will come twice in a week or just a weekly update. It depends on the availability of time. Nothing is a taboo for these adults. If the language is for adults only I will post a warning.
Enjoy if you can.
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Evening Talks Two.
The monotonous work tired me down by lunchtime. The best part of the day was spent going through computer programs and figuring out how data flows from one application to another. I started calling files women’s names so that I can have some interest in dealing with them. I wonder what my manager would think if ever she finds out my work notes.
The evening came in slowly and that gloomy Monday resisted his best to the wrath of nightfall. The drive back in a carpool with Jennifer was a silent one, as minds of both of us were somewhere else than at each other. I did not talked at all, every time I thought of saying something I decided not to as she seemed very much concentrated in her driving.
We reached home and I went straight to the bedroom and crashed on the bed cursing “Stella the file” for dragging my mind and tiring me down. I woke up at about 7:30 PM to good loud noise of T.V. I went to the bathroom took half a shower than the normal half an hour one and came out all freshened up.
“ Hey there” Jennifer asked without much strength in her voice.
“Hi hi, what’s going on T.V” I couldn’t figure out what is going on T.V at all.
“It is not T.V, this is the wedding party of my high school sweety” She blushed a bit when she said “Sweety”.
“hehe” I rhymed with my giggle…
“No no it was not like you think, we remained friends even after we went apart” Jennifer sounded a bit pleading me to understand.
“Understood, but in my part of the world especially the high school I studied did not had any girls at all. It was a boys only school. So I don’t have any experience with any “High school sweeties”… I did had a girl friend at that time. She was from a girls school and we once in a while met and talked… I really loved her. When I left I know for days I was sad and gloomy… and I knew it was very hard on her too..”
I took a breath, and Jennifer was in all wonders. Staring at me..
“What’s up with the look to kill?” I was frowning at her when I asked.
“You still love her, isn’t it?” in a mild voice Jennifer asked.
“Sure I do” I said “Nothing happened between us to end up not loving each other at all. Life took us in different paths and I ended up in the other side of the planet. She is now married with couple of children. But I know if someone ask her if she love me. She will also say “Yes”. I don’t think there is much romance in our love anymore. But still we care about each other a lot.”
“I was surprised when you said “we remained friends” even after you guys parted. Many kids now-a-days don’t keep up like that. They keep on changing their minds almost every second of the day. Especially girls. Most of the teenagers both boys and girls tend to become self centered and they don’t get the fundamentals of caring for another person.” I took a breath. Before I could continue Jennifer interrupted.
“I won’t blame the kids alone in this… most of the time… it is the parents that makes them self centered. There is a point at which the bad cycle should break and some parents should decide to take care of the kids. That don’t happen most of the time because of financial matters, parents themselves falling a part… you might know the things that goes on around in this country??? “ Jennifer looked at me queerly..
“Well… I really don’t know how families work here in
Jennifer looked at me again in a strange way and asked “You are right about the bad impression… but you know when it comes to two very young people… friendship got only little real estate and the boundaries are easily broken” Jennifer paused for a moment while looking away as if in reverie and continued “Once we grow older we realize… it was all hormone induced passions and many people even regret being some relationships” She paused again and asked “You know what I mean”.
“My questions is why don’t this generation in this information age learn from the previous generations mistakes” I looked at her as a slight smile was blossoming on her face and said “ They hate older people calling them “old school” and say we need to experience life and make all the mistakes. The same mistakes made by generations before them. They learn lessons learned by past generations in the same way the past generations learned those lessons by making mistakes. In my opinion they should learn from the wisdom left out by those mistakes than repeating the same mistakes” I stopped as Jennifer was about to burst into laughs. She did exploded and said… hahaha “you have said the word mistake many time and I can’t help laughing. Sorry…”
“Don’t be sorry… I was just telling my thoughts”…. I was a bit regretful.
“Hey… you made me laugh by telling something very serious and important” she laughed again and said…’you are right.. you are right.. it is true that this generation is lost. Are they beyond any hope of recovery??”
“Nope… they will learn many will be lost beyond any hope of recovery. But that is the reality every generation before this one faced. You are right… Parents should take more responsibility in developing a child’s mind “ I felt the hunger deep in my stomach that started growling.
“I need to eat” I said..
“I can hear that from your stomach heheh, it's time to say hi to fridge and microwave” she smiled.. I ate and I am off to sleep…
I walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge. Pulled out the frozen dinner and checked the label to confirm the timings.
By this time Jennifer was almost in her room while closing the door she said “ The real estate in our friendship is almost all erased” I looked back holding the microwave’s door
“Yeah, only the boundary exists… let us see how long it will hold on” the door lock was what I could hear by the time she finished saying it.
With a little smile I got back to my food to be stirred and microwaved again…nodding my head in affirmation of a thought breezing through my brain.
Comments (4)
ahh, good one! thats a thinker. are you going to publish these in a book? that would be something.
hey. Wish I had time to read this, but I'm talking with a very dear... um.. friend, of mine. Well, I guess you could call her my lover, sorta. My internet interest. She's great... ah... I love her... anyway, thanks for the flattery. It's funny the way you call me a "young person," I like it, just because it reminds me of my youth and that I have my whole life ahead of me, and the compliment with it made me feel like maybe I won't do too bad. Anyway, I'm sure this little conversation you've written is extremely good, but like I said, I have to go. Have a lonely day Saju, and I hope I am saying that right. Goodbye for now.
I don’t get that whole “dating” for three days and then being strangers either. I think partly its society fault, teens overflowing with hormones just want to kiss, cuddle, have sex, and society says if you want to do that you must be in a relationship.
The number one cause of young delinquents, rules that are to strict. This wold is to politically correct, if you don’t get rid of you energy one way you will do it in another.
Whoops, I meant lovely. it was a slip of the finger. Anyway, what'd you do over the weekend? How was it?
-Casey
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