1. PREFACE: A Thousand Miles Away

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"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant." —Paulo Coelho


3rd April 2018

Those dreamy pair of eyes looked at me with awe, with passion. He smiled revealing dimples on his cheek. He twisted his eyebrows and wore a goofy expression, then ran his hands through his silky and perfectly cut hair...Basil, a memory as old as a good three years came back into my head so effortlessly. Where was he now? I don't know, nor did I ever bother to find out...but yes he was as dear to my heart as my memories with him, still afresh, still anew. He probably might be a thousand miles away from me this moment but still why does it feel that he is so near to me? Why does it feel that even as I'm writing this he is standing right beside me? Yet I cannot touch him, feel him, or tell him that I still couldn't get over him.

Though he left my life as hurriedly as he entered, he changed it entirely, turned it upside down and twisted it so much that even an entire lifetime would become too short to forget him, the memories I made with him. Though I had trained my head not to remember him, that he was just this ordinary guy like many other people in my life who just came and then faded away, my heart doesn't allow my head to follow my instructions. And today morning I had woken up from a dream, a dream in which I once again heard his melodious and velvety smooth voice, I saw his dreamy eyes of which I'm so fond of...and I couldn't bear to see more of him, call me a coward!  I'd have cried my eyes out even in that dream and begged God to send him back to me...but that ego in me doesn't allow me to accept that I was truly, madly, deeply, irrevocably and insanely in love with him...Basil!

I had not been awake till my eyes met his gaze, I had not been so calm till I felt his heartbeat, I had not been so insane till he played with the tangles of my open hair! Why did we have to part then?! Maybe it is true, that favorite quote of my best friend which I often say to her is so negative, "nothing lasts forever". Yes nothing lasts forever and so we must enjoy it all while it lasts.

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