was she a rebound?

 What’s gone is gone!! I realized it bit late, when I met this beautiful soul, full of life. I am Manik who recently broke-up with his girlfriend. I had these bunch of crazy people whom we call friends who taunted me "humne kahan tha, humari sunna nhi tune abhi baithkein ro uskein pichein" (we had warned you before but you didn’t listen to us now you sit and cry)  and hug u tight the very next moment "abhi next time savdhan rehna" (be careful from next time). We had a rule to celebrate every smallest achievement and according to them it was a very big achievement. We decided to party YA YA! a breakup party. 

At Mumbai Club’s the couple entry is free and stags are chargeable. We decided to go along with our partners and everyone had one except me which took me back in her thoughts but my friends had some other plans for me. They arranged a partner for me. She happened to be one of our classmates named Nandini. I never noticed her, as I was an absent-minded attendee in the class.  We reached at venue ie the famous PlayBoy Club at town, made our entry in the club with our respective partner. She was looking stunning and I had decided to get hooked up as I thought it’s the best way to overcome and heal. It was one crazy party, with unlimited booze, amazing music and crazy dance moves. Nandini was a great partner to gel-up and grove with. We had great evening and night to call off for. 

After party everyone had their own private plans with there partners. And as a gentleman I was supposed to drop Nandini at home safely. By that time the thought of hooking up with her had vanished and we had build a strong connection. While moving back home we were discussing about career and love, life and happiness. We were hungry so we stopped at a juhu beach to hog at rekri but it was closed. But she knew a place where we found an idli wala which was in the lane next to Marriot. We had many similar likes and dislikes. I felt as i was falling in love with her simplicity. But later on we started talking as if we are very old best buddies. We guys call our best friend or close friend 'bhai', we started addressing eachother in similarly. I realised one thing that day the myth a girl and boy can never be friends is a false. I found a bestie in her who was straight forward, down to earth but she always flew like an eagle. 

Yes!! she wasnt a rebound but made sure one don't need any such temporary or instant rebounds to overcome a failed relationship. Her friendship could leave any relationship behind. She was the true definition of a pure and long lasting friendship in this mean and double standard world.

Lock down & Mental Health

Hi this is Ananya working in an MNC. I love reading articles on mental health and how to deal with it. Many of my friends ping me to ask suggestions for their problems. I have been suggesting and guiding them ever since my college days. At times I think I should pursue my career as a shrink. There are so many people who are depressed, have anxiety problems, have many things which they want to share but can’t because they don’t find the right person. I could be there secret keeper, a listener, an advisor and a guiding angel.

In the present lockdown situation, I have been reading many articles on mental health issues. The Government had also set up a call center so that one can connect if they are dealing with the depression. 

 

I got a call from my old friend who was going through the same. Let me brief you about her. She loved to meet people, make new friends, go on trekking, movies etc. in short, a complete happy go lucky person who was always surrounded by people and had never been alone. She told me how she was feeling lonely and couldn’t stay alone far from the paparazzi world. I told her that she was always lonely and running away from the reality of her life.

 

This lockdown is just a reality check on life for all those who are lost in the reel world. I gave her few exercises which she always loved and that was to pen down her inner voice. As suggested, she took 2hrs to write down with my few conditions, i.e. to be blunt enough to write anything and everything with no scribbling on the page. She had sent me 4 pages long paragraphs explained in detail what was bothering her and what she actually wanted. I asked her how many times did she genuinely tried to work out or gave in efforts express herself. And she didn’t had any answer. The very next moment she started taking few steps like baby steps you can say to deal with it. She was feeling positive and good. With this I gave her the mantra to be happy ie watching stand-up comedy, listening to music, eating healthy, pursue some passion or hobby.  

 

I asked her for my fees and that was nothing but box of chocolates. And also asked her to have one. As chocolates have that chemical which releases happy chemicals into your brain and which lifts up your mood.  

(to be honest you can write an email to me if you need any kind of help. Promise to keep it a secret.)

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A Drive To New Beginning

Hi this is Anisha, I met this guy named Deep at a family gathering at cousin’s place. He was my cousin's best friend. The party was in the month of march and he had come there for group studies and was about to leave. But my uncle insisted him to have dinner and then move which he readily accepted. He was very jovial in nature. It hardly took any time for us to become friends. He was a nice guy with fun and loving nature who entertained us with his jokes and talks. We exchanged our numbers.

One day I had uploaded WhatsApp story with some sad songs and sad quotes, which I generally did to express my emotions. Like every teenager, I had also changed the status privacy and made sure all my relatives are mentioned while selecting "MY CONTACTS EXPECT". He saw my status and he pinged me on WhatsApp asking if everything is fine. I tried to cover up with a lame excuse, that I had uploaded it "just like that". He was a smart-ass and he knew I had hidden it from all my relatives and my brother too. So, he kept on sending me appropriate reply to all my sad songs and those heartbreak shayaris. We started chatting on various casual topics like life, relationships, studies and future goals. We decided to meet at a McDonald's one evening. It was a casual meet. I insisted him not tell my brother as I didn’t want families to get involved as my brother is a complete mama’s boy, and he shares everything with her and she being a typical Indian woman loves gossiping. I didn’t want to be there hot topic.

We started sharing everything including our darkest secrets of relationships. He was single and had a past, I was into a toxic relationship. Everything in my relationship was going out of control. I had been cheated many times but I still kept on giving him more opportunities to hurt me all over again.I didn’t have that inner strength to take the decision of breaking up with him. I blamed myself for my failed relationship. I kept meeting Deep and spent time with him. Obviously I didn’t tell my boyfriend, as he'd never let me have friends in my life. Finally the day came when I called my boyfriend and told him it's over and made peace within myself.

Once we went on a drive at Worli sea face while it rained. We clicked pics together for the first time, went for a small walk and in that moment I felt nonchalant and lovely. I finally smiled again and he just stared at me. While driving back home he asked me to open my hair. He said it looked beautiful that way. I so wanted to hug him at that moment and tell him that I liked him but we didn’t spoke single word about it. We wished, we could live in this moment forever. We came back home and that night we were chatting on casual topics and the best part about it was he was being very caring during the entire time which we had spent. In that moment, I felt loved after years. I told him not to care for me so much or I’ll fall for you. To which he replied that do I still need time to fall for him because he had already fallen for me. It was like we both had found the perfect partner in each other.



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