One Text- One smile, one second, one perspective, is all it takes to change your life

 One Text. 

It is such a delight to offer advice to friends in need of a little wisdom. We all become relationship experts when we find a friend dealing with relationship issues; be it a broken heart or a small turf between lovers. It is so easy to lend a shoulder to cry on and offer support to the broken ones.

The question that haunts me is what exactly happens and where does all this GYAAN fly away to the moment we are dealing with an issue of our own? 

I have been a floatation device to aplenty, but sadly when things went haywire for me, I could not find an anchor. I felt too lost and was too proud to actually accept that I was in need of emotional support. What does someone do when they cannot find anyone ? Turning to god could be of no help as I had drifted away from the concept long ago.

How could I even turn to friends when I had made my decisions with conscious considerations. The exasperation came from the very fact that calculated decisions and curated dreams had all been thrashed in a moment.  Here I was thinking and analysing my past two weeks from a brilliant trip, of the budding emotions tingling me from the depth of my lil tummy. 

The text which read on that morning of sep 19th practically killed all the butterflies.  "I don't think I can handle the chaos our relationship would lead to. It is better we end things " . That was it, no apologies, no context, no buildup to the story as to where this was coming from, just like that the text came and boom, my crystal dream house was now shards. 

I did not know where to go, or whom to reach out to. My bestie sat in a different town and only yesterday I had given her hope that no matter what life throws, she's got me. How could I lend her a window into my insecurities. I reached out to someone else instead, someone who was more than a friend and has become much more than a mentor. We talked, discussed, rationalized and while the childish self in me would have gone crazy, it did not. Something more calm and peaceful came over me, probably the company and it's influence that is. For I did cry but I did not mourn, I did break but I did not shatter. Something wise indeed for I accepted text, deleted it not just from the handheld device but also from my heart. I cried, we laughed, joked and made merry; for three is a crowd but two is still company. In the wee hours of early morning and having downed a few extra servings of wine, my heart ache was cured. Someone who had meant the world was gone and someone whom I had respected as a friend had become more than family. One day, One person, One smile , One text may not change the world, but it surely changes how you see yours.