Yeh Dooriyan

(ok, ok, the title is a copy from the song..but who cares :)
They were the IT people, part of the GEN X.
His job kept him on his toes generally, he was a high flying consultant in a Management Consulting company. During the last few years, he had been travelling extensively, his job took him across different time zones for extended period.

This time he was travelling for 3 months.

When he came back, they met at their usual meeting place.

They greeted each other, hi, hello and hugged each other. But she appeared solemn and very quite compared to the other days.

He ventured, how have you been, its been so long since we last met. Anything special happening in this part of the world ?

When was the last we spoke ? She asked ?

Ah, 3 months back I suppose, he replied guiltly. Can't help it right, my job is such that it takes me all over the world, spanning different time zones. More over, the places I had been to had such a bad network connectivity that I couldn't call you. And there was nothing exciting happening on my part of the world, to convey to you.
And look who is complaining, if I didn't call you, couldnt you call me? You are complaining as if you had missed me everyday and if you really did, what stopped YOU from calling me. Whenever I am not travelling, I do make it a point to talk to you daily, so if I wasn't able to call you so frequently during the last 3 months, shouldn't you understand.

Before coming there she had decided that she will not complain or argue with him. She has always believed that people should themselves realise if they have made a mistake. One cant always thrust your views on someone else. If he didnt think that anything was amiss, she wouldn't point it out to him. But when she met him, she couldnt stop herself and hence the complaint. But on hearing his justifications she decided not to argue further.


A few days passed by and that incident was forgotten in the hustle bustle of the fast life. He happened to visit her at her home few days later. She was taking a bath, so he was just killing time, loafing around in the home.

At that point he spotted some letters lying around, they were all addressed to him. He was wondering how come he had not received them? Who had written these letters to him, and how come they were there at her place ? On looking at them carefully, he realised that she had written him those letters, during the time he was not there. They were all routine letters, didnt have any special NEWS per se to convey, just a simple hi , hello, how are you. Hardly any of them had anything new in them, just the usual humdrum of living a life in a metro were being shared with someone. There was almost one letter written every week.

He should have realised that
You dont keep in touch when you have time
You make time to keep in touch

Nor do you keep in touch to convey the news, for that matter, how many of us have news to convey to our people on a regular basis, we mostly share the routine stuff with each other daily.