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He knows he's broken. He knows he hit rock bottom. He doesn't know to give up. He is a warrior. He fights back.
She is also a warrior but a different o...
Arnav had lain down on his bed and tried to get some peaceful sleep during the 6+ hours journey. He was really tall and that proved very inconvenient and difficult to travel in public transports.
He had put his long legs sideways and his feet were hanging out. He was conscious not to hit somebody's head while they moved around the sleeper.
His mind was not at rest, so, he took out his phone and started browsing. His head would hurt when he looked at his phone during travel. He usually puts on his headsets and listens to his playlists in shuffle mode. That day, music didn't offer any solace to his mind. Shreya Goshal's vocals didn't feel like a gently flowing stream of water. Pradeep Kumar's songs didn't give imaginary wings to him to soar above the clouds as he usually felt so much lighthearted with them.
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He decided to tackle the immediate and pressing emotional disturbance as his mind kept asking so many "why-s".
He opened his messages app and went to the chat lists - he selected and deleted the chat threads of HER, Karan, Dharshan (his school best friend), Bhumi, Suraj and Vinay.
He then moved to the screenshots folder and started deleting snaps of some memorable moments with his close ones. Those screenshots said a different story than what was happening in reality in the present scenario. He went into the contacts at last and hesitated a moment. He deleted HER contact and Bhumi's first. He had lost total trust in women then. He wanted to erase memories and move on with his life. 'At least now, I should start living for myself', he thought.
He wanted to give one more chance to his friendships which were also testing his patience and limits of giving!
Why had he become like that? Why had his life become like that? Why was me emotionally weak? Or was his life excruciating, to say the least? Was he cursed or plain unlucky? Why did he keep on having these breakdowns?
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August 23, 2006
Arnav and Deepthi got ready for school. It was exam day, the first exam of that term and Arnav was excited but Deepthi, not so much.
