Windows

Many years ago, perhaps in class 6 or 7 I once stood up for a extempore competition. When I went up on the dias, with knees knocking against each other, hands trembling(though you might find it ridiculous, yes I did suffer from stage fright), I didnt want to sink in the bowl of folded topics fearing the worst- perhaps a topic on Nuclearization, Politics, History( I wasnt the most updated always).
But to my utter surprise and I must admit now a bit of disgust, the words scribbled on my chit of paper was - WINDOWS. For a split second, I didnt know what to speak....But then I did...you know about what....about Microsoft Windows ;-) . At the age of 12, it was considered smart and I was appreciated for my wit about Bill GATEs opening up a WINDOW to the world...I think I did a fair job in 180seconds coz I spoke uninhibited and unlimited about this square in the wall with four colors in the four grids....
But today, I couldn't help but visit that day again and contemplate what would I speak now if I was to speak of a window today.....I was looking out of the window which has a light blue hue coz of the curtains reflecting on the glass....faint green leaves of a neem tree, blown away with the wind filled the spectrum....one moment swinging left, the next moment swinging right....I pulled myself out of my bed, opened the window and stretched out my arms through the white metal grill to pull into a branch of the rainwashed leaves from the previous night....just then a drop of rain fell on my eye lid and I realized that it was raining still....at that moment I wanted to rush out to under the tree....but then I couldnt as I was only at the window...(of a thirdfloor apartment)
Such is the beauty of windows, they are your viewing pane for the world....yet they don't promise you an escapade!! Do we sometimes not wish that there were always doors and gates and not windows....well may be & may be not....
After all whats the fun of just pulling at the knob and walking through to the otherside.....what about the serennity of the restricting window grill that forces you to rejoice in the distance that is forced between you and the beloved...
Sometimes I can't help but think of our relationships as windows; almost always you cannot pull open the door and walk through and often it allows a brief peek into what it entails....
There was an exchange of thoughts I read somewhere a few days ago:
He said,"Today you have walked straight into me, deep inside me"
She said,"You mean I wasn't there already"
He said,"You went deeper today, just understand the feeling"
She kept quite at that.....
He said,"U understand"
She said,"Ya"
He asked,"What"
She said,"Just that it was about going deeper, while I waited at the doorstep and wondered where the calling bell was. Didnt even peep through the crack in the hinges"
He said,"Hmmm"
She said further,"May be I should try the window, atleast I would see whats going on in there"

See I told you, Windows are a better operating system for relationships.....at least you get to see whats inside or perhaps outside? They are better than doors, no one just walks through...(May be that's why Bill Gates never coined his product Doors ;)

If you have reached till here, it is time that you'd know U ARE MY WINDOW....had it not been for you, I did never know the simple pleasures of the relationship I share with you....To each one of you who reaches here, please keep the window open for me to perch on the sill on some evenings of our life and have that conversation while the rain makes a splatter splitter noise on the pane.....See you there always!!