Wednesday, September 7, 2011

A walk to remember

Our walk started with a stupid question which i still remember ("How to measure a nation economic strength") in a metro station, you told lets walk and discuss, i told my house is 5km walk from here , you told mine is even far. We discussed and obviously i won :)
it was just a start i dont know what love you had for a walk, our second was India gate then we never stopped from southex,Pitmapura,shalimar bagh, almost all college fests in DU, i think the longest and closest to my heart one was your shortcut from chankyapuri to indiagate which u thought was just next, despite me arguing you ve lost it. but we came really close after that and it worth a 8km walk :), eating icecre
Then we started eating on our walk and you were perhaps the only one person, whenever i told i want to eat you never said no to me never, but then again you used to make me walk and walk from Karol Bagh to Pharganj, rajori, south ex to defcol, saket to malvinagar, chawari bazaar. there was no eating point which we missed i remember u buying a "Time food guide" just for me and we croosing almost every colomn of 200 plus book which we traveled.
In summers i remember since we cant go to walk, we used to go to museums, which was yours as well as mine hobby. discussing stupid things on phone in night( thanks tofree night calls on dea)
a rainy walk to rajghat, a walk inside parliament, a walk to see prime minister house(which got us arrested)
Best thing was you holding hands whenever you hold hand it was something very warm, a feeling which fills you with emotion, it was like their is someone for you. those two years were awesome and perhaps best days of life, a life was their was no tension, no studies (at least for 10months)


Then one fine morning you told "sorry i cant walk anymore, but i promise whenever i will walk i will always remember you and promise me you will never forget me". You said this may be because i was of a nature who forgets people easily or is so self-centered.
i didn't have any of your photos, videos just the memories of our walk but slowly i got over , i always kept myself busy, it is never easy to forget.didn't care about looks, clothes just me and my virtual world of games,novels,comics and friends.

But i never walked i hated it , i always felt scared ,nervous to walk for some unknown reason.Then i was in Bombay one fine day getting out of my office , i saw a long marine drive perhaps the most beautiful road in India to walk.Should i walk standing at taxi stand should i take a taxi or walk?
But then i remebered a song "jeevan hai chalne ka naam" lets give it a shot, i felt so great after walking that every weekday i walked on marine drive, on weekend it was juhu or kartar road. But i must say when i take my first step for a long walk i always think about you, its your image that flashes and i know you also think about me whenever you walk.
I dont know in which part of world you are now , i never replied to you but the walk which i had you was really a walk to remember which i will never forget.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Really touching..!!!! Love u pongeeee <3

Nitika Bhatia said...

Wow Pulkit I never knew you could write soo well and emotionally !!!
Great work !! : )