In love with Genius

V - 1

I have been sitting on the roof of this hotel for the past 3 hours. It's half past 2 now and I feel empty. My life has been long and busy for the last 20 years, but I am feeling lonely right now.

I am a genius, born with a high IQ and normal EQ. I started my company when I was 10 years old and worked hard and make it to the world's number one, I have ventured into different fields for the past twenty years and have become the world's richest person.

But I have no friends, not a single human to be with me, to sit with me here and chat with me about something so trivial. Once I achieved everything, once I set foot in every field out there, I thought I would be the happiest person alive but I felt suffocated. I felt like a failure.

I have been in psychology for the past two years and understood that I need human connection. As a 30-year-old, I am in dire need of someone to validate me, love me, hold me, scold me and live with me.

My parents had become distant long back. I visit them every week for the past year and try to reconnect. My psychiatrist has asked me to do another job, so I am thinking what would I probably do.

I decided to join my software company as an engineer and lead an ordinary life. If I could make friends, maybe it would help fill the vacuum inside my heart.

I know I need a partner, but mostly I get proposals from other business people, for making my marriage a business agreement. But I want and need someone to love, live and laugh.

I am not expecting to find love soon, I am just expecting to find a friend for me, nothing more.
I started to my room, I just come here for a meeting and didn't feel like going home. So I booked a room to spend the night.

I could hear a girl laughing near the swimming pool, like who the hell is here at this time, curiosity got the best of me. So I went near the sound.

Two girls were standing and laughing. And then they both became quiet and watched the road below.

"See, even now, someone is rushing somewhere. I seriously don't know why everyone is running like life is a race", said the one dressed in black. She has big doe-like eyes, dusky skin, a sharp nose and bow-shaped lips.

"Yeah da, like no one seems relaxed or enjoying, everyone is behaving like they have the deadline every day", said the other one, dressed in purple, almond eyes, fair skin, sharp nose and heart-shaped lips.

"Righttt. Our lives are defined by luxury, I hope we can lead a simple life with the necessities, but most of the "wants" are nowadays changed into "needs". And we need to earn more, our needs just increase along with salary. I just want to pay my debts and save and lead a relaxed and happy life but I still wish to travel to different countries, and start my school which all need money"

"I guess a relaxed life is out of the equation. They say that housewives have it easy but they are the most hard-working and emotionally riding a roller coaster every day. See our moms, they are having it worst"

I was shocked to hear this conversation, I have never seen girls discussing life in this way. I mean don't think wrong of me. I am not anti-feminist, I like what they are discussing. It may seem they are discussing something so simple or mundane but they are discussing the biggest problem of modern life and woman's life.

I wish I could talk with them, I wish I could have what they have. They have each other to talk about everything at 3 am. They are laughing one minute and discussing philosophy the next minute.

But they didn't stay, they started to the stairs. I stayed for some time so that they wouldn't mistake me for a stalker and then went to my room.

I slept for another half an hour.

I was in a school standing near a black-dressed girl, and she was holding my hand with a satisfied smile on her lips. I heard some bomb ticking sound and got scared.

I opened my eyes to find that the alarm was ticking and it was a dream. Sighing, I stopped my phone alarm and started my day.

By the way, I am Vetri, from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. This is my life story.