"Tears for Fears".. found this written in my College diary as i turned back the pages . I used to write those one liners...most of them taken form the lyrics and few origially inspired ones..and just on the next page on the other side i saw " Tears sometimes for Nears".. written by someone... or should i say girl from yesterday. These two one liners took be back in time... she read what i wrote... yes she used to read all those one liners i wrote but never commented on any... far better she used to be postive about thing i wrote and the way i looked at things ..but for this one she wrote her own version and softly said "its not always the fear that brings tears in your eyes abid..... its somtimes the feelings for the near ones that wets your eyes."
It was during one of those long afternoon classes ... Electromagnetics I still remember...where time almost used to stop.. when every minute had 120 seconds and even hour had 120 minutes. For those who thought time flies ... they must sit down for that lecture and they will know....theory of relativity. There was some hallucinating murumer in the class... guys in the front with their ever attentive nature listing to the lecturer and trying to draw a three dimensional figure in this two dimensional piece of paper...those on the back, some eating चना.... some listing to music, some talking nonsense with each other and those few special ones sleeping with their eyes open... everything seemed to move as a dream...and there she was right next to me saying these words..."its not always the fear that brings tears in your eyes abid..... its somtimes the feelings for the near ones that wets your eyes."
I felt it was a dream... a sequence of what i have been imagining. yea I dream with my eyes open.... special me. and noone had any rights to tresspass my dreams , they were all mine ..just mine. Even the best of my friends had no rights to critisize them..". There are things in my life that you dont deserve to touch"... this is what i said to my best buddy when he tried to write something on my diary.......but this girl came... read my lines... and wrote a contradictory statement in "my diary"...and not only that...she even tried to explain how wrong i was....the wrong conception about TEARS i had.....who was she ?who the hell was she to do so ?? ..sitting next to each other in same bench for past three semesters doesnot give her the right to write ,sharing the same tiffin and taking to each other for few minutes over the phone ( where every minutes had more that 120000 seconds) doesnot mean she can write anything in my diary and .....who gave her access to my diary and even more to write on it... must be me ..myself ....ohh...now i realise i was in a relationship with this girl ( i dont call it LOVE here for some obvious reason) ...but still my diary is mine and my views are solely mine.. but still she wrote ."its not always the fear that brings tears in your eyes abid..... its somtimes the feelings for the near ones that wets your eyes."
Just as I tried to ask her WHY and as she tried to explain THATS WHY... someone called my name..." ABID !!!!" damn it was the teacher.. Mr.Vector ...i stood up with a silly face anticipating some remarks or a question for which i didnot have any answer but to my surprise he told me to sit down immediatly....gosh he was just taking the attendence..the lecture was over.. so was the conversation regarding the "TEARS" thing...one which never started. With the end of the class.... as per my regular routine i rushed down to the canteen for my daily dose of smoke and tea with my friends ...she went for her diet of COKE......" CHUROT and COKE " ...two things where we trespassed our boundaries.. ..two things that we never liked about each other ...two things that we couldnot leave for the shake of each other.. two things that never made us one.....two things that wasnot common between us...but even as i walk down the nonexisting staircase of my university those words still rung in my ears " ."its not always the fear that brings tears in your eyes abid..... its somtimes the feelings for the near ones that wets your eyes."
Its almost been five years now.. half a decade and time really flied here... and as i look back.. those 1/2 decade had minutes with only 30seconds and hours with only 30minutes. With time the two differences we had ....added up to four...... then eight...sixteeen and so on, till our differences piled up and with these differences - distance was mutliplied between us...the common ground we stood were divided.Life surely took a nice little turn and i didnot even had time to look back at it on my rear view mirror. Its all about "moving on"... "let it be" ... "let it go"... these three words of my own wisdom kept me striding forward and with time i surely had moved on......Time had showed me differnet things ... i did things that i never imagined i would do ... i met people i never imagined i would meet.. evenmore i realised things that i never dreamt of.. Time has taught me great lessons.. Time has healed me....Time has made me what i am today..even thought they said Time never waited for anyone... but i waited for Time.
I dont write one liners anymore... I dont mind if someone cotradicts on what i say anymore... I respect others views and expect everyone to havetheir own....I have changed myself a lot in past years... time has changed me a lot. I have lost , I have gained .... i had my moments of joy and the times of pain... i have learnt to forgive and forget..but still i never learnt..... to shed some tears ... to cry.. TEARS once more...i still hung on to my principle of "Tears for Fears"... and never accepted the statement "Tears sometimes for Nears".....These things nevercame back to me till today...i never cared...it was just my past... a statement that had no meaning in my life......just as the person who wrote it...... just as the person who disappeared, the thoughts of TEARS and its feelings has disappeared in me.... things that went away , never came back to me...
But today as me and Dns dai walked back to the motorbike parking in the airport .. after the big hug with the big heart....I felt I had something in my eyes hanging like the first morning dew..it didnot dropped...it didnot dried..it stayed.For a moment i thought it must be due to the chill in the weather... or might be i need to have my eyes checked up...its getting really weak again..but then i realised it has nothing to do with the outer enviroment or my phsyical state...it was all emotion...it was all coming out from within... i dont know and i might never know from where but i had Tears ...and at that moment i thought.....was it just me or even Dns dai had that dew in his eyes....i wanted to know but as in most cases where i really want to hide my feelings, i never looked into his eyes. I never asked him ...he never answerd ... the moment has passed..But as i sat down at the back of his bike ...with the trottle of engine shaking me up and the cold gust of wind hitting my face... the dew drop was washed away...vanished..and at that very moment i understood the meaning of "Tears sometimes for Nears".
We might had a million differences by now...we might never agree on anything in future..but it was one thing that was so true, but i never realised. As Dns dai dropped me home ... and i walked down the lonely roads of Jamal with the song " Memory Remains" playing in my ears..somewhere deep down inside, i felt the soft voice come up again. ".its not always the fear that brings tears in your eyes abid..... its somtimes the feelings for the near ones that wets your eyes."
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out of my understanding
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