Courting a Gymmie - Part 5

Now & Then

(Written at 23:35 hrs, 24 Feb 2010)

Today has been a tiring day for both of us. He had a multi-disciplinary inspection team visiting from his Divisional office and I had to face some unprecedented faults just a day prior to my safety audit.

These days time moves at super fast speed, life has become too routine to live. We are still living in different cities and our relation is still in the courtship phase. We are yet to reach the formal stage where we shall enjoy the liberty of referring to each other directly; a stage after which I will be able to mention Proper nouns instead of Pronouns in articles of this variety. One major turning point in recent past has been his transition from a probationer to ADME. So, right now both of us are dealing with our jobs (read responsibilities and associated constraints) in full swing. I enjoy certain gender based freedom in my office, by the virtue of which I usually get free before dinner time (at max). However, his job is of round the clock nature and he doesn’t get liberties like me. Nowadays, I am not able to track when the day starts and when its time to sleep again. Time keeps ticking away and is always less than the required amount. We steal moments here and there to talk a little. He hasn’t even set up his ‘grihasthi’ and though there is another very caring senior at this place, yet I often get worried about him. The time we get to spend with each other has become all the more unpredictable.

In fact, even this post was not supposed to be written right now. Finally, after this tiring and trying day at work today, both of us had found some time of solace on phone and just as we were starting to recount our experiences, a hooter started wailing in background. Obviously he had to go to check and obviously I am waiting for him to return, at least just to ensure that he gets some precious hours of a good sleep. There cannot be a more fitting conclusion to this series because the mere conceptualization of this series happened because he had to leave for Jamalpur last week (at a day’s notice), to attend C’day. Courting a Gymmie, still remains to be as beautiful, as pleasant, as uncertain, as understanding and as loving as ever. And, even though the pace of life has changed immensely (he is not even based in Jamalpur any longer), yet the basic essence of the courtship is the same. This unique courtship (between him, me, Gym (and railways)) started many years ago and has become a part of our identities itself.

This series was started as a method to commemorate the Gymkhana angle of our relationship and is dedicated to him and all his fellow Gymmies.

Thanks Bhagwaanji for blessing us thus,

Thanks to him for being with me always,

Thanks to the great and unparalleled culture of Jamapur,

And thanks to all those made it through all these autobiographical chapters about issues totally unrelated (and unimportant) to them.

Once again happy life to both of us!

May God bless us.