Chapter 40: chapter 40

Madhumati – First you tell me about yourself. Then I will tell you. Let’s start in this way. Aman – Okay. There is nothing special about me. I have a normal peaceful life. In the morning, I do my job and, in the evening, I am searching for a life partner. Hehe!Madhumati – Haha! How cute! By the way, what are your hobbies? Your interests? Aman – I love reading books. Sometimes I also write. Madhumati - Don’t you to in the bazaar, in the market, in the evening?Aman – No. Madhumati – Oh my goodness, you are leading such a boring life. Aman – Boring life? I think my life is going pretty peaceful. Madhumati – It may be a peaceful but it’s very boring. Aman, go to the market, do shopping, have ice-creams, only this is the life. Enjoy it! Aman – Perhaps, you are right. Madhumati – Not perhaps, I am definitely right. You come to Delhi, I will show you how to live a life. I will take you to the market. There I will get you very very yummy ice-creams! I bet, you will love them! And then you will say to me - “Madhumati, it’s the real life. Thanks for letting me experience the real life in the real sense of the term.”I didn’t agree with her but I could not show her my reality because my mannerism was not allowing me to do so. I didn’t want to hurt her. Aman – Oh really? Madhumati – Yeah, Aman. We have only one life. We must enjoy it. Don’t think about the future. Don’t think about the past. Just be in the present and enjoy the present. I thought, “Uff! What a stupid philosophy she has! According to her going to the market, eating ice-creams and other trash means living in the present. Isn’t there anything else good to do in the present? On the notion of living in the present, she is doing all silly things under the blue.”Madhumati – Hey! Where are you? Why are you not saying anything? Aman – Oh, I was here only. Just trying to think deeply on whatever you said. Madhumati – I think you agree to me. Right? I guess you have never ever thought like that. You must have realized that you have been wasting your life. Right? I smiled and said, “Hmm... Yes, I was thinking about as such.”She smiled and said, “I knew that. Hehe. You know what, I enjoy my life a lot."I asked her, “What do you do to enjoy your life?”Madhumati – I do a lot of things to enjoy my life. I do shopping a lot, I eat junk food a lot, I love meat, on the weekends I take my scooty and roam everywhere in the city wherever my mind says. I never tried to confine my mind. I do whatever my mind says. It’s only one life, we must enjoy it. Aman – Wow! Good philosophy of life. But I am a vegetarian. Madhumati – Oh shit! You are a vegetarian!Aman – Yes. Madhumati – Oh my goodness! What a boring person you are! I can’t survive without chicken. Chicken is my favourite. You come to Delhi. I will buy you one chicken. Taste it once and then you will run after me to get you one more chicken! Haha! Aman – Haha! I can’t believe it!Madhumati – Once come to Delhi, then you will start believing in everything I say. Aman – Oh, haha! Madhumati – Okay, tell me. What do you love to buy when you go for shopping? Aman – I don’t love shopping. Madhumati – What! You don’t love shopping! You don’t love chicken! Do you love junk food? Aman – No.Madhumati – Oh my God! Please bless him with your grace. This guy is leading a super-duper boring life. Please teach him something!I said to myself, “What the hell she is saying! She is not doing even a single good thing in her life. She is eating non-vegetarian food that is not good for spirituality, she loves eating junk food which is not good for her health. And she loves shopping which means she is very much attached to worldly things and her external appearance, which is also not good for one’s mind’s health. I think she needs God’s grace more than me. But here on the contrary, she is praying to God to bless me! God, what has happened to your world?”Madhumati – Now, what have you started thinking? Don’t think. Just listen to me and follow what I say, only then will you realize what life is in actuality. Aman – Okay, okay. Don’t worry. I will follow you. Okay? You teach me how to live a happy life. I didn’t want to say this to her but I just said so that she might feel more comfortable to express herself before me. Madhumati – Wow! That’s like a good boy. You are very good. Aman – Yes, I am. I know that. Say something new. Haha! Madhumati – Haha! You are very funny too. But you are too decent. Aman – Is decency not a good trait? Madhumati – Yes, it is. But...Aman – But what?Madhumati – I will tell you something about it later on. Aman – Okay. And now? Madhumati – Now, I want to tell you something about my parents and me. Aman – Yeah, sure. Madhumati – I belong to a higher middle-class well-educated family. My parents are very well educated. My dad is a bank manager. My mom is also a probationary officer in the bank. I am just nineteen years old but I run my own gym and my coaching centre. Aman – Wow! That’s really great. Madhumati – Yes, my family is really very good. Both of them are very well-behaved. I love them. Aman – I agree that your parents are great. But greater than that is that you are just nineteen and you are running your own coaching centre and gym! Just at the age of nineteen! Madhumati – Yeah, I am a very hard-working girl. Moreover, I don’t want to see myself dependent on anybody else. I want to be a fully independent woman in my life. (It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment 🌺❇️🌹🌺❇️)