AMRIT-KALASH

CHAPTER 3 : THE SOULMATE

"Do you believe in the soulmate thing ??" asked Kalash to me as I was taking a turn to the right to get to my company which was  still an hour away. 

I looked at him from the corner of my eyes. He was smiling at me  and asking  me the question.

I preferred to give a meaningful pause on his question and then said " I believe that if in a relationship both the couples remain understanding , if they always feel for making the other happy and comfortable , if they feel for each other and be sensitive towards each other, not be egoistic about anyone's profession or educational qualification because that literally doesn't have any meaning in a relationship  and if there is mutual reflection of love that is very important , dedication and devotion  from both sides  , automatically the couples become soulmate....otherwise any relationship would turn out to be useless...a shackle on the legs and nothing more."

Kalash looked at me with thoughtful eyes and asked " Seems like you have been in many relationships before ..."

I smiled a little  and said " On contrary I am purely single and had not been in any relationship ever in life..."

Kalash said "Then how do you have so much insights ??"

I said " We always don't have to be in relationship to know about it. It's a natural thing and we should use our wisdom and prudence in our relationship rather than our experience and intellect . "

Kalash smiled and said " Yes , you are right. Intellect does not work in relationships..."

"Still I will ask you , do you believe in the soulmate thing ??" asked Kalash to me.

I looked at him once and then concentrated on the road.

Kalash thought of elaborating himself.

"Like have you ever felt a click when you see someone...??Have you ever felt , this is the one ...this is the right one for me...or have you felt that this has to be the person whom I was looking for ???"asked Kalash.

I smiled and said " Well...we are from middle class family ,Roychowdhary scion...love is not a thing for us. If we feel that we like someone and if he was from a good wealthy family he would immediately think that we are gold diggers . We were getting attracted towards them only because of their money. So our love is never valued  . They were always measured on the scale of greed and branded as gold digging. "

Kalash went silent after my little spilling of truth.

After sometime he said " You are right....whenever there is a class difference even if there was no greed for money , yet the person from the lower class would be at the receiving end . He or she would always be branded as a gold digger."

There was a meaningful silence for some time.

Kalash said " Whether you believe it or not but I want to confess something to you . When I saw your photograph for the first time on the magazine interview , I felt a click inside me. I did not know you, I had never seen you before that ,yet I felt a click as if  I was waiting for you ...or you are the one whom I was waiting for. I knew we could not walk on the same path because we are in two different worlds. You are a fashion designer and I have a family business and I am a writer too. So I was conditioning myself to stop thinking about you. Then on that day when I stopped at that Cafe I saw you there. I thought , may be the universe also wanted us to be with each other . The universe wanted us to be one. So I started coming to that cafe regularly so that I could talk to you ... "

I listened to him in silence .

After sometime , I said " Well , my story is very similar to yours . I saw your picture on the covers of the magazine and felt myself getting attracted to you  . Yes there was a click , an unknown one.. I did not give much importance to it. I am a rational minded person and the concept of soulmate is too unscientific to me. Out of so many people , it would take a whole lot of lifetime or even more to find the right one for you  . So I believe in partial soulmate concept.  Like ,if you find someone attractive then try to know them more and mould yourself to that extent so that you could become a soulmate to them provided it should be mutually reflected from their side as well.

But  I must confess that at a point I was obsessed with you. I knew may be we won't meet , we are not meant for each other , but there was no harm in watching you from a distance . So I used to come to that Cafe just to see you ...."

Kalash looked at me .

I moved my eyes to Kalash for some time and then moved away as I needed to concentrate on the road.

Then I heard ...

"Have anyone told you that you are beautiful ???" asked Kalash all of a sudden.

I was caught a little off-gaurd. I did not know what to do ....how to react. I was not a poetic person ...

I smiled a little and said " No ....so far I was not so fortunate to be called beautiful by any handsome being..."

Kalash smiled a little and  said " Well then I am calling you beautiful and I hope that makes me handsome in turn too..."

I chuckled and said " Of course you are handsome. I can't believe that nobody told you so far that you are one...."

Kalash chuckled with me .

There was a meaningful silence of few seconds and then

I felt a hand on mine on the gear.

I gasped a little on the sudden touch and then felt the touch from the bottom of my heart. It was so soothing to my soul.  I felt a familiarity with that touch ....I did not know...it was very unscientific to say that, because we never met each other before that day ...forget about of touching each other. 

But however unscientific it was the familiarity and the comfort of that touch lingered.

I smiled a little and held one of his fingers with mine.

Kalash smiled at me .

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