Watching a movie on the mobile is the new trick while flying domestically to stay occupied instead of looking around the whole duration of the flight. The movie was simple, not too much of the usual Bollywood drama, and probably hence a little light and easy to feel the movie. The movie tread slowly on the relationship between the two individuals to an extent where they walk apart.

This is only the intermission and more of the movie to be seen. But right now at this juncture… I felt that she could have waited. The painstaking journey to fall in love for a few days, to feel on cloud nine, was real and then walk away the fact. The mythical love.

The love problem is never simple but layered with wants and societal pressures of status and wealth and looks and things beyond the two individuals involved. I was just in love, simple and from my heart. Everyday was a bliss to be around that individual and work and talk till we parted. Not sure how the other person struggled, as for sure the feelings must have drained her also. But for me it just took so long that… she could have waited.

Well, life throws all these curve balls that feel like you can hit a home run on them to miss and get strike out. Passing out of college, the job interview went on for 6 levels to be rejected as they offered jobs to students who intended to go abroad. A lot of things would have been different, better, strange, new or not that great… if I or someone else could have waited.

That’s not what the definition of life is. Time does not wait… nor did she.

Suddenly the landing announcement made me realise that the movie was playing all this time while I was phased out. I quickly rolled back the movie and played it again hoping to see the protagonists come back together. While for that fleeting second between the switch the feeling came… She could have waited… that time for me.