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Hey,Originally posted by: Hasini67
Rachana,
Everything is to the dot, except the part where you are talking that he is feeling all this for this for the first time.
In hot chocolate part, it is clear that he has been hurt in the past in a close relationship...where he cared for someone the way...Geet was referring to.
The part that he is not sure is if he can let such feeling emotions come into his life once againš
But these are not alien to him for sure.
Hope that helps...but please keep writing...I love it when people take time to discuss and analyze.
Thanks --Hasini
Hasini,
I read the two updates early this morning and wanted to say soo much on it so I decided to wait till later on to write a comment. But the day was so long with classes, studying, and rehearsals!! Its midnight already but I know I cant sleep without posting a comment for you.
The bed, bath, and beyond update was just perfect to the T. What I love about your writing is that your words can create very nice imagery in your mind on the scene. I could so very well imagine the Egyptian cotton set, Maan-Geet lying together on the set, the awkwardness. This is only possible with your words and style of writing. Outstanding! I guess it just hit Maan on the depth of the new feelings he was experiencing and he had to run away. Awe bechara J Sweet na? What I also really enjoyed was Geet not thinking or worrying over Dev and her relationship but over Maan!! Perfecto!
I have a big thank you for youā¦.the Grand Canyon addition to the update was just so touching for me. I went to Grand Canyon in August and your update just flashed back all the breathtaking views and scenes of the Canyon. I loved how you even stated a fact that the North Canyon was less populated than the South Canyon ;-) I remembered that too from my trip! I felt for Maanā¦I was smiling and wanted to sigh for him too. He was overwhelmed with this feelings and went back to all the times he'd had with her and when things changed for him. I loved how he sorted all the emotions and practicalities first and then concluded that no matter what mayā¦.he loves her! I will always remember you for this because this is one of the closest quotes to my heartā¦.
"I was insanely and irrevocably in love with her" :-D
I cant wait till Maan meets Geet now! He's a patient guy and knows his boundaries and like you've said he wont let Geet know of his feelings now. I'm just waiting to see what he might do to find out what her feelings are for himā¦.:-)
Thank you thank you for such a wonderful update!
Rachna, you're another gem to analyze so to the point. You're awesome! :-)
Pushpi
Pushpi,
Hasini,
I read the two updates early this morning and wanted to say soo much on it so I decided to wait till later on to write a comment. But the day was so long with classes, studying, and rehearsals!! Its midnight already but I know I cant sleep without posting a comment for you.
The bed, bath, and beyond update was just perfect to the T. What I love about your writing is that your words can create very nice imagery in your mind on the scene. I could so very well imagine the Egyptian cotton set, Maan-Geet lying together on the set, the awkwardness. This is only possible with your words and style of writing. Outstanding! I guess it just hit Maan on the depth of the new feelings he was experiencing and he had to run away. Awe bechara J Sweet na? What I also really enjoyed was Geet not thinking or worrying over Dev and her relationship but over Maan!! Perfecto!
I have a big thank you for you'.the Grand Canyon addition to the update was just so touching for me. I went to Grand Canyon in August and your update just flashed back all the breathtaking views and scenes of the Canyon. I loved how you even stated a fact that the North Canyon was less populated than the South Canyon ;-) I remembered that too from my trip! I felt for Maan'I was smiling and wanted to sigh for him too. He was overwhelmed with this feelings and went back to all the times he'd had with her and when things changed for him. I loved how he sorted all the emotions and practicalities first and then concluded that no matter what may'.he loves her! I will always remember you for this because this is one of the closest quotes to my heart'.
"I was insanely and irrevocably in love with her" :-D
I cant wait till Maan meets Geet now! He's a patient guy and knows his boundaries and like you've said he wont let Geet know of his feelings now. I'm just waiting to see what he might do to find out what her feelings are for him'.:-)
Thank you thank you for such a wonderful update!
Rachna, you're another gem to analyze so to the point. You're awesome! :-)
Pushpi
Part 24: Fire and Ice.
<Geet's monologue>
I was grabbing breakfast at Caf Luluā¦I had reached office way earlyā¦it was 8.00 AM and my stomach was making horrible soundsā¦
The table where I sat brought back memories, which I had learnt to ignore in just one dayā¦I didn't know one day could make such a difference in my lifeā¦ not months, not yearsā¦but just one dayā¦one random day..it could have been the day before or even todayā¦but that was the point, you cant really figure out answers for some thingsā¦why things happened the way they didā¦its just randomā¦that gave me the answer to many of my questionsā¦it seemed to make sense when I accepted the random nature of things.
I was a wreck on Mondayā¦things didn't change much as of last morning either. I decided to take the day offā¦I couldn't stay indoors and so I started to walk outside. It was cold, but I layered and that kept me goingā¦I walked 10 blocksā¦.but I felt I could walk longerā¦I continuedā¦I walked for two whole hoursā¦pondering on how life had treated meā¦Why I was going insane over the fact that he disappeared overnight and didn't bother to tell me?
Was I just taking random events in life and trying to make too much sense out it?
Why? Why me? I didn't get to finish my studies in Indiaā¦I was forbidden to dreamā¦I got married, came here served as his wife for five years and then he decides to leave me. It seemed complicatedā¦but strangely I was able to contain the complexity within a sentenceā¦Is that all?
There didn't seem to be one good explanation as to why things happened the way they didā¦.why I came to NY? Why I took up the job? Why I had to stay with Meera? Why yash and Meera had to stay in the same apartment? Why Maan had to help me out during my crisis?
If Dev left me after 5 years for no other reason except for the fact that he wanted to, at that point and on that particular day and not any other dayā¦then let it be...I wanted to be at peace with it.
Maan helped me, I shared a few moments with himā¦Had a laugh togetherā¦even shared some of my sob stories for which he gave me a shoulderā¦but why was I expecting too much out of it? Glad that happenedā¦but I didn't want to make equations out of it to get an answer.
Maan left because he had to and there was no reason for me to sit there and expect him to call me or keep me informed everytime he moved a vase in his house.
It was just one other random event in my life.
I could either go looking for answers and giving up living life this momentā¦but accepting that there were just random events in my lifeā¦strangely made me feel at ease.
That's itā¦people were just thereā¦they did the things they wanted toā¦and by no way they were connected to me.
Dev did what he wanted toā¦so did Meer and Yashā¦Maanā¦he lived his life tooā¦
I could either make sense of everything that happens around me or just take it and live itā¦
or don't deal with itā¦or just ignore itā¦or just accept itā¦or not even care to give any attention to it.
I wanted to live. I didn't want anything to bother me anymoreā¦I was tired of expecting things to happen a certain wayā¦
I didn't want to be tied down by anyone or anybody. I wanted to have me and myself alone in my life.
I didn't want to deal with people and ponder on their actions just because they happened to be thereā¦their existence was a mere random event in my life.
I was done, I wanted to move on and I very much wanted to make a life on my ownā¦not with anyone else or not for anyone else.
It felt like I have been living only since a day. It felt different and simple when I was not questioning or bothering over things that happened randomly in my life.
I went back to the office and learnt he had called for a meeting. He was backā¦there was a strange sense of excitement in the airā¦but that was just randomā¦I just felt excitedā¦I didn't want to link it to the fact that he was indeed backā¦
<Maan's monologue>
If there was anything I was absolutely sure about that morningā¦it was thatā¦she was going to be fiercely mad about the fact that I leftā¦and did so without telling her about it.
If she was going to breathe fireā¦then I was ready to melt as iceā¦
I had to find out how she was doingā¦I called for a meeting.
She came inā¦smiled at meā¦and practically was much nicer to me than she normally wasā¦she even volunteered to send me some additional numbers without even being asked for.
I didn't understand one thing that went on in that roomā¦she seemed much clearerā¦
She took things pretty lightly and the air around her was differentā¦She even snubbed a guy in the meetingā¦she didn't careā¦I was totally not ready for this.
I had to find out what she was thinkingā¦I waited for the clock to strike 3.00 and then I pinged her for coffeeā¦
MaanKhurana:"Coffee?"
GeetKhurana:"If you are buyingā¦see you in 10ā¦"
She accepted? I was puzzled.
I waited for her at the coffee shopā¦she walked in and ordered a Short non-fat, de-caff, vanilla latte, extra hot and extra foam. Women and their choices ā¦it was not toffee mocha this timeā¦hmmmā¦I wondered.
I took a Halff-caff black as always.
Maan:" So Geetā¦how are you?"
Geet:" I'm goodā¦aur aap? How was your trip?"
I was surprised she asked meā¦
Maan:" Actually I should have told youā¦There was some urgent personal stuff I had to take care of...and so I leftā¦"
Geet:" Oh! No that's fineā¦you are not bound to tell me anythingā¦ "
Maan:" But I wanted toā¦"
She was surprised for a secondā¦but snapped out of it in instantly.
Geet:" You know whatā¦no one "has to do anything" Maanā¦You just do itā¦you don't have to explain anything to anyone"
Maan:"Two days I leftā¦and you seem wiserā¦"
Geet:" I guess NY can do that to youā¦give you answers you are looking for all your lifeā¦"
I was curiousā¦
Maan:"So what were you looking for all your life?"
Geet:" Its boringā¦you don't want to hear itā¦trust meā¦"
Maan:" No I want toā¦I want to know if it's like one of your Hot chocolate theoriesā¦"
She didn't seem to take offenseā¦
Geet:" Actually Maanā¦I'm not even sure Hot Chocolate makes sense anymoreā¦"
I was taken backā¦what is she talking?ā¦what happened in just one day that made her talk like this?
Maan:"Okā¦now you have to tell meā¦"
I acted interestedā¦
Geet:" You know its just those momentsā¦when things seem to reveal itself to youā¦you feel that perfect moment of clarityā¦I guess that just happenedā¦I learnt two thingsā¦one is life is pretty randomā¦the other is thatā¦people are peopleā¦you shouldn't relate to anything personally and make everything about youā¦"
Maan:"Wowā¦I guess I should leave more oftenā¦you seem to be coming up with such interesting stuff to talk aboutā¦"
Geet:" Noā¦it makes senseā¦everything in life is just randomā¦it just happensā¦don't try to make too much sense out of thingsā¦I mean take my life for exampleā¦Me coming hereā¦dev leaving me after 5 yearsā¦You helping me outā¦Me finishing my studiesā¦I land a job in manhattanā¦do you see any connectionā¦they are so randomā¦"
Maan:" Okā¦continueā¦I want to hear moreā¦"
Geet:" People are just peopleā¦they just do thingsā¦Dev left because he wanted toā¦Meer lives alone because she wants toā¦Yash doesn't cook because he doesn't want toā¦You want to be yourself because you want toā¦you cant just derive meaning out of thingsā¦"
I ignored everything except the part about devā¦She could make it easier for meā¦I wanted to fishā¦may be I could land oneā¦
Maan:"So it doesn't matter anymore that Dev left? You don't miss him?"
Geet:"Strangely noā¦He just did what he wanted to doā¦I don't want to take anything to heartā¦I don't want to relate to him and then make, him leaving me, personal and then hurt muself for the rest of my life? I don't want to do itā¦I don't want to live like that anymoreā¦"
Should I be glad or worried that she was talking like that?ā¦what caused these changes in her?ā¦It did appear that she was talking out of a moment of clarityā¦but to meā¦it was just another coping mechanismā¦She was just using different words to describe the same thing she did sometime agoā¦"block people outā¦" and now she was just calling it "Don't take people personallyā¦"
I laughedā¦and feared the task ahead of meā¦
I didn't mean to make her sound insaneā¦but I could see how deeply she was inflicted by peopleā¦She had kept herself an open book all her lifeā¦let people walk on herā¦let them make decisions for herā¦she had no choiceā¦only people can do that kind of damage to anyoneā¦Things just don't remain the same once someone you trusted blindly breaks your trustā¦I had first hand experience at that.
Canyon put some questions on my mindā¦but now I had additional onesā¦
I wondered how was she ever going to trust anyone after Dev did this to her? Will she ever be able to get close to anyone? Will she be able to love?
Gone were the days she talked about hot chocolateā¦after her break upā¦she had been swinging like a pendulumā¦It was either our day out when we took pictures of mine for Daadima's album or days like this when she thought she had stumbled upon the truth about lifeā¦
For a brief period she did shut everyone outā¦and nowā¦I worried that she was beginning to do that all over again.
Her mood swings were giving me whip lashesā¦
I didn't know if she ever did love Devā¦and neither did I know if Dev ever did love herā¦but I was determined to make her feel my love for herā¦
We talked about some random stuffā¦We walked back to officeā¦I was completely clueless how I could ever make her the same person she was in central park with meā¦.
I missed herā¦
To me it didn't seem random that I ran away and came back with perfect clarity that things happened for a reason and that everything was meant to meā¦and that Destiny was taking me closer to herā¦
And here she was questioning life and came up with her "randomness and don't take people personally" theoryā¦
There was absolutely nothing random about itā¦.it happened because I was meant to pursue her and make her once again open upto life's simple pleasuresā¦
I had warmed upā¦and she had gone cold. I have to breathe warmth into her for we had switched placesā¦
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