chapter 54

I asked her sheepishly, “Are you getting angry at me?”She changed her tone and said politely, “Not at all. I am trying to say that you have to learn to enjoy good things in life.”I asked her suspiciously, “You were not trying to say that.”She smiled, changed her facial expressions and said, “Okay, I am sorry. I didn’t say that. But now I am saying. Divya, you have to practice learning good things in life. Okay, let me ask you one thing. Do you like studying our syllabus books?”I said, making face, “Not at all.”Sanaya - How about when you were a child, did you like books then? Divya - I hated them at that time. But now, I am in a better relationship with the books as compared to before. Sanaya - It means what you are trying to do. Divya - What? Sanaya - It means with the passage of time your love for the books is increasing or say the hatred is decreasing. Am I right? Divya - Hatred is decreasing is better. Sanaya - Okay. Suppose if you fall in love with books, it’s a good thing or a bad thing?Divya - Hmm… It’s a good thing. But I haven’t fallen in love with them yet. Sanaya - No problem. You must have seen at least a guy who hated books at one point in his life but later on started loving them and succeeded in his life. Divya - Yeah, I heard. Actually, I saw one boy in my real life and watched such videos on youtube. Sanaya - What does that mean? I said as if I was just a child, “Hmm… I don’t know.”She said lovingly, “Oh ho, everything I have to explain. It means that one has to learn good things in his life. Nobody is born to love books. Have you ever seen any child who says that he loves to read books? They flee from the place where they see books. But later on in their lives, some of them start loving books because they trained their minds to love books.”Divya - Why are you talking about books? She said lovingly but irritation mixed in her tone, “I am not talking about books. I am just trying to say that we should learn to love good things in our life. We should learn to love books. We should learn to love good girls and even good boys. We should learn to love good boyfriends. In your case, you should learn to love Raj.”Divya - Oh that was your point. She giggled, “Thank God. Finally, you understood what I meant.”Divya - Yeah. If it’s so, then it’s going to be very difficult for me. I have to work a lot on myself to change my mind set. Sanaya - Absolutely correct. If you want a good boyfriend in your life, if you want a loyal soulmate in your life, if you want to stay happy in your life, if you want to stay tension free and stress free in your life, then you have to change your mindset. Actually, all young girls should know about all these things and all girls should change their mindset. Otherwise, they will also suffer the same fate as you.Divya - Hmm… your logic is correct. I really liked your logic. But I don’t know if I can implement it or not. But believe me, I will try my level best to implement it.At nightI thought a lot about what Sanaya had told me. I said to myself, “She is right. Her logic seems to be flawless. I need to change myself. I have to change my mindset. I need to learn to be with good things and good boys.”My mobile phone buzzed. It was a call from Raj. An idea crossed my mind. I picked up his call. Before he could say anything, I said, “Raj tell me the name of a good book that I can read and understand easily.”He chuckled and said, “What happened to you? Again a sudden change!”I said, “Tell na. From now on, I also want to love books.”He appreciated my effort, “Well, that’s a good effort. You can read Sophie’s world. It’s a very good philosophical book.”I asked him, “Will I be able to understand this book easily?”He answered, “Yeah, you will be able to understand. If you succeed in reading the full book, you will fall in love with the books.”Divya - Will you help me in falling in love with the books? Raj - Yeah, sure. But what happened to you? I don’t think you have ever read any extra book in your life. Divya - No, I never read till now. But I will start reading. Where can I buy this? He smiled and said, “No need to buy. I have a pdf file. I will send you right now. You can start reading.”Divya - Okay, then send me the file. He sent me the file and also told me about an app where I could read the book easily. I replied to him, “Thanks.”I said, “Tonight, I will try to read the book. I mean I will not be able to talk to you. I hope you don’t mind.”He really became happy to hear that, “No way, I am going to mind that. In fact, I am more than happy that you chose reading a book rather than talking to me. When we talk next time, I will get something new to hear from you. Best of luck!” He hung up the call.I thought, “What kind of boy he is. Today, her girlfriend is not going to talk to him and he is happy. Perhaps, good boys are like that only.” I opened the pdf file and started reading. I hardly read four paragraphs and I started feeling sleepy. “Oh gosh! I am feeling very sleepy. Reading is very boring. I wonder how Raj is able to do that. Doesn’t he feel sleepy while reading? This book has, I guess, more than two hundred pages easily. I don’t think I will be able to read even five pages tonight.”(It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)