Cupidity.

Hey all. 

I am going to tell you a little story. Let me begin at the end, or end at the beginning. Once you are through with the story, maybe you will understand the reason for my juxtaposition. This is the story of a man. A man whose perspective changed today, on valentine's day. 

Four years ago, the man bought a lot of things to make his house a home. Four years ago. The man dreamt a lot of dreams that he would be in a particular point in life four years later. Today, he sold all those things he bought. He was surprised that all his dreams could only fetch so much. He remembered how his (then) wife and he haggled over the dining table, the wife wanted a six seater, while he was content with four. "All the people we'll ever have over is another sweet couple like us", is what he remembered as having said. How they cribbed and cried at finding the right shade of the dressing table! And the refrigerator,  how he surprised her with that by opening it casually and giving a bottle of water when she had come home from work, saying, "mineral water or regular madam?". The rocking chair on which he had spent so many mornings reading the paper and drinking his tea, the small portable TV which he had since his younger days (which was a constant source of animated discussions), the mattress which he and his wife carefully selected after taking turns jumping on it in full public view, what wonderful memories they are!

And today, he sold all of them. He decided that there will be no more setting up houses. They say that in every man's life, there comes a turning point which completely alters the person's fate, thought and destiny, but what if you have so many turning points in your life, that you turn full circle?

For the first time in four years, the man was feeling terribly lonely, because all those familiar inanimate things on which his dreams were built were languishing in someone else's homes. Maybe those people would build their own dreams on them, who knows? 

Lynrd Skynrd's "freebird" was playing, his mind was nostalgic while his heart said, "Hello world, I am lonely, would you be my valentine?".

Happy Valentine's day.