Chapter-3
Fear...
Can you please switch the channel,maan??? Geet asked covering her eyes with her hands..
Maan was quite amused seeing her reaction.They were watching some documentary on Discovery channel about Spiders,,while pari was arranging dinner on dining table.
"Are you scared of spiders???" Maan asked fidgeting with remote.
"very much..I can't stand their sight even...please.." Geet shrieked.
"ohk..ohk..i am changing..don't panic"
He switched the channel. Person's brain is most mysterious place..Geet was there to read his brain but She herself was not able to make her brain free from fear..
"Aren't you scared of something',maan???"she asked him.
"well i am not scared of poor creatures like spiders..There are many scarier things in world other than spiders..." he replied changing the channels continuously.
"like????" She asked looking at his thumb which was meticulously pressing the buttons on remote.
"like loosing your loved ones..." he switched off the television now.
"Are you scared of loosing pari???"
His facial expressions changed. He was anxious.."what do you mean???No one can separate us..no one can come between us..."
" may be your child???"She said looking straight in his eyes. She wanted to gauge his reaction on the "child" matter.His eyes showed surprise first,but soon they became blank..
"Children unite their parents rather than separating them"he replied,
"Then why are you scared of loosing her??" geet asked looking at pari who was coming towards the dining table with a jug of water in her hands.
" I don't remember when i agreed about loosing her???" maan answered following her gaze.
"You yourself admitted that you are scared of loosing your loved ones..Mr Khurana.and pari is only "loved one" in your life as far i know..." Geet said shifting her gaze from pari to him.
"Is it necessary to share your fears???" He asked in response.
"Not necessary..but sharing makes them less fearful ..believe me..." Geet tried in order to get an answer from him.
Maan was convinced with her for first time..He took a deep breath before saying..
" I fear books "
He took long strides towards the dining table while geet had her gaze fixed on book shelf in the room."I think i am understanding your problem,maan"She said to herself and smiled.
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Chapter-4
Geet's journal
Thanks to my profession,my meetings are destined with strange people mostly.People who seems insane to others If not insane then "on the verge of insanity" ofcourse. Their loved ones relies on me for treating their insanity...well for me they are not insane..They are people who are stuck to a unsolved problem. I can't solve their problem always but i may help them to let go of it and move ahead..
"Maan" is one of them..He told me that he is scared of books...Its hard to overcome your fears othewise i would have been petting a spider in my house...however emotional fears can be conquered...Maan is also suffering from such emotional fear 'insecurity".He said to me that he fears books but what he did not say was "which are life of pari..."
He is insecure of pari's love for books .He thinks she could leave him for her books.I had never thought that a person could be jealous or insecure of his wife's hobby.. but that is the beauty of my profession..i meet with people with most strange problems..Maan finds competition for him in lifeless pile of pages.After witnessing the enormousness of books in bookshelf of their drawing room I could understand maan's dislike towards metaphors and poetic emotions.He hates everything related to books and stories as such.First stage of his treatment will involve pari's sacrifice of her passion for some time..hope she will be ready for it..Tomorrow is our meeting and I am looking forward to it..
Its hard to lie to yourself when you write in your journal...Actually i am looking forward more for a meeting with maan rather than pari.. not for a professional but a personal reason..I want to see him again..I can't answer why my senses react so strongly when he is around,,why i can distinguish his cologne among thousand of fragrances..why my heart constricted when he kissed pari on cheek...Am i falling for my patient..who is in love head over heels with his wife or its a simple attraction???Questions..questions..and questions all around me..
I think i myself will need a "cardiac psychiatrist" soon for curing these "heart disorders"of mine...
Edited by palindrome - 12 years ago
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