Charu… is at a very special stage in her life. It’s special because very few remain what she is today at her age. They either change or get married or stray or whatever silly they may choose to do with their lives. Yet she feels lonely in the madness around her. We are trying to find the reasons why.
She is old enough to get married… missing out on something really crucial in her life and waiting for it to happen. Those who could understand her have all drifted and found their own paths. Those left were never worthy of understanding. Those who came were new and strange. Strange is the word. They belong to the i-phone and wi-fi generation. Emotions for them are limited to emoticons on IM’s and more so they are limited to ‘’; ‘’; ‘ :S’; ‘:p’ and ‘:x’. Nothing deeper than that. The only words they know are the ones that can be texted. Can’t blame them.
She cannot find a common ground sadly. She is too old for the young generation and slightly young for the old generation. She doesn’t like the old guys and the young guys don’t know what to talk to her. She is different to add to the misery. Different becoz she is emotional, she needs love and she wants to be pampered. There aint nothing wrong in it. But who’s got time?
There is a dearth of like minded people in her life. Someone who can understand her, someone whom she can talk to endlessly at wee hours of the day, someone who can put a smile on her face everytime it droops. But few care. Being emotional can be quiet a burden on some people. Everybody has their plates full and they care less about anybody else’s grief. She is living with humans she thought were her friends. But sadly even when she has humans at home she finds them strange. She is left alone because she cannot talk about boys all the time, she cannot talk fashion all the time, she cannot talk booze and knock out stories all the time… so she is left out. But who cares?!
She is left to find her own neutral ground, its almost like the old age home where when people reach a certain age they go to find ‘like minded people’! It may be anywhere but it becomes important to meet humans who can talk your language or atleast understand it. So when she finds any one person like that, she clings to them, holds onto them. Her fault?
Humans are gregarious, they find their own flock. So what if one in the flock is different? Doesn’t make it any stranger. Charu needs a friend. Charu is not wrong if she is different.
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