(DISCLAIMER : The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this story are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places is intended or should be inferred)
"You
are not the Alankrita we know from the years!", all of her friends sounded
in unison.
Alankrita
is a young, charming and ambitious girl in the faculty of arts in a prestigious
university. From the advent of her consciousness; and as it unfolds her life,
she has developed a strong ideology about life and her cognitive thinking improved
exponentially over the years. To say, she is very mature, is an understatement.
Albeit she is orthodox as a person, she has a eye-catching physique, which
every girl dreams of. This beauty with brain, is one of the student celebrities
in the campus with more followers on her instagram. Boys in the campus are avid
for her but no one is on par with her, in the levels of maturity. She has a
strong sense of ethics in life, which are building blocks of her ideology. Spirituality
is one of her strengths.
Aryan
is a handsome, energetic and determined boy in the faculty of medicine. He is
studious and has high perseverance, as required by his course. He believes that
everything is by choice and not by chance. He is a mother's boy in contrast
with the conventional boys. Although he lives in the world of science, he
believes in the traditions and culture, which, atheists call as superstitious.
As a student of medicine, he always asked himself, whether he would envision
the fact of precise time when life(soul) or a metaphysical concept begins in
human. The curiosity to know the answer, paved the way for developing passion
in him, towards research in stem cells. He decided that any type of implication-
either social or cultural in his life, should not hinder him to carry out his
passion. Meanwhile, as he is digging in the secrets of almighty, God has a
superior plan for him.
Alankrita has immense respect towards the life of others. She proves
the fact that - with the sensitive body, girls are given a sensitive soul. As
she is unique among the girls, she dwelled into her sensitive soul to realize
it. This nature of her, made her the representative of social service wing in
her university. She led the wing with all her friends and conducted many
service oriented events not only in the campus but also in public. She has an
encouraging clan at home, who is her asset. She enjoyed many cheerful moments
with her cousins in the vacations and in one of the vacations, the joyful swing
suddenly turned into a dramatic accident
of her very close cousin. She ran to the hospital as quickly as possible, to
know that her cousin was doing well but there was a huge loss of blood. She
rang few numbers from her mobile but no one answered. She realize the
importance of blood donation by the virtue of this incident and she immediately
calls up for a blood donation camp in the campus so that no one suffers like
her cousin in the future.
On
a fine morning, the calendar marks up blood donation day. Alankrita with her team made
all the necessary arrangements for the camp at the Kalam memorial building on
the campus.
She
received a text from an unknown number which says, "Hello, a young medical
team is going to assist you at the camp, please kindly support them! Thank you! ☺️ "
She
replies, "Hello! Sure, we are ready to assist them in all ways possible!
May I know who is on the other side?"
Her
phone blinks with a text, "I forgot to mention, please arrange some
nutritional diet for the donors, otherwise it would lead to problems! Thank
you!"
She
ran towards her car screaming at her friends, "Urgent! Come fast".
Her friends were startled with the high-pitched voice of hers. They thought something
has happened to her cousin who was in hospital. But later realized that they
forgot to bring some nutritional diet for the donors and that was the reason for her
scream. Alankrita is such a type of girl who is very sensitive and reacts extreme
even for the small things, which would not only cause inconvenience to the people
but also questions her activity.
She
drove to the market and bought some food items for the donors. Amidst of busy time,
she realizes that she forgot to write back to the text which caused this panic
but helped her in the good cause. She grabbed her phone and writes, "Thank
you again for timely text about food! Grateful to you! And you have skipped my
text about who you are! 😉 "
She
keeps her mobile in her pocket expecting a reply. All the arrangements at the
Kalam's building fall into place and they are waiting for the doctors team to
start the camp.
A
bus half filled with people in white aprons arrive at the place. As a
representative from the university, she went near the bus to welcome them to the
camp. As she was in a formal conversation with the head of the doctor's team, a
young male doctor gets down the bus. He was handsome and attractive. She put
her ears in the conversation with the chief, while all her eyes followed him and
ended with a eye-line match and a 'Hi' by both the parties without a formal word.
Although, she updates her instagram with the details of the event, she knows the
importance of a beautiful girl going to the classes of students and encouraging
them to donate the blood. She is mature enough to play constructive tricks for
a better society. She leads her team to let the students know the happenings of
the camp on campus. Undoubtedly many students turned up for the camp and as a
initial gesture she hears an appreciation from her professor. She was
delighted!
She
checked her mobile for the text she was expecting but no notifications showed
up as she swipes down her screen. She checked in True caller but there is no
information regarding this number. She thought someone is playing on her.
"Aryan
is serving a lot with passion among all of them!", She hears from her
friends in a trivial talk.
"Is
he the short but handsome guy with a blue stethoscope around his neck?",
she asked in anxiety.
Her
friends took her by surprise after hearing her words with a clear description
of small things about a guy.
"Yes,
he is Aryan", said a girl to answer her question and to lower her adrenaline
levels. "As a matter of fact, I felt some good vibes on seeing him for the
first time and once again I am proved to be correct with my senses", she
said.
She
started showing her interests towards him, to see him and to observe his passion and
commitment towards his work.
"Why
are you doing this to me, take my blood too! I am brown but my blood is red as
yours! Take mine!", a guy shouts at the blood testing area.
"What
is the problem ?" Aryan asked his colleague who is a girl.
"Aryan, we
can't take his blood as his blood alcohol content is slightly higher than
permissible levels", she replied.
"You
damn girl, I didn't drink for the past 48 hours as required by the conditions
of donating the blood, even if there was a party hosted with alcohol last
night!", the guy shouted at her.
"Sorry
sir! We understand you, but we can't take it!" she replied him in a
pleasant voice as a natural asset to a girl. Meanwhile this news spread like a wild
fire and Alankrita ran to the site to cool down the emotions.
"Why
the shit you should understand me without accepting my blood" the guy raised
her voice against the girl at the test center.
"Sir,
Please calm down and listen to me. We are allowed to take the blood whose
levels are lower than acceptable limits irrespective of the duration from when
they did not drink. If we take your blood now, it may harm other individual in
the future, which is against law. And this is very unethical to you too!"
Alankrita
sensed that the words are convincing!
"So
sir, please donate your blood tomorrow which helps people and I thank you from
the bottom of my heart for taking part in the good cause. As a thankful gesture,
I myself will visit you personally to make arrangements for your blood donation,"
Aryan offers an apple to him.
"She
is also a young girl who is working for the betterment of the society and I am
very sorry to hear harsh words from you against her although I understand your
emotion. It would be good on both sides if you would request an apology to her,
I request you!", Aryan said in a more satisfying and convincing pitch.
"I
am sorry" the guy said to the girl at test center.
Alankrita
who was watching this short emotional movie from the distance, thanked Aryan
from her heart for cooling down the emotions and paving way for a smooth running
of camp.
"He
is a champ! He deserves unconditional applause from everyone of us!", She
said with her friends.
Her
friends senses that something is interesting in her metabolism and started to
tease her! "Stop it! I am very clear with myself as of now, I like him at
the moment I saw him and I like him more with his actions!"
"Shall
we go and tell him about this insta queen ?", a friend of her put a proposal.
"Will
you please stop it here?! What are you gonna tell him ?! What do you know about
what I think of him ?! Nothing! So stop and no involvement please!", she
said in a firmed voice to check their senses, which thought of something interesting
in her metabolism.
As
the time is progressing towards the dusk, she is bringing all her strength to
talk with him. Even if people are very strong by nature, they tend to struggle
to talk to the people whom they admire!
As
more donors turned up, they fell short of the certificates issued by the
welfare society to the donors. This issue came to her notice when she was in
the process of taking steps to talk with him. A friend who passed this
information also puts a bug in her ear about losing chance to talk with him if
he leaves.
Although
being worried with the shortage of certificates to the donars, she was excited
to see Aryan walking towards her vicinity.
"Excuse
me! Can you please lend me you mobile to make an urgent call to my mobile which
I can't find, to call to the welfare authorities?", she finally talked
with him!
"Sure,
here you go!" Aryan handed over his mobile to Alankrita. First time two names together.
She
called to her number which was purposefully kept silent with her friends. She
is an intelligent girl who takes the advantage of situation in a right manner 😉.
"Thank
you! I am Alankrita!", she offers an handshake.
"My
pleasure, I am Aryan", he
reciprocates for the offer.
"Nice
to meet you! I was very impressed the way you handled and convinced by your
words at that issue with alcohol guy! Thank you for supporting our
cause!", she said to him in a girlish tone.
"It's
my pleasure to meet you too! Thank you for the compliments! I heard a lot about
you, your ideology and your welfare actions from my chief and colleagues who
follow you on instagram!."
"Your
ideology seems interesting and I am inspired by it", he added.
"That's
nice to hear from you, I need to go as I need to make a call to the committee
for the certificates, hope to meet you
soon in future! Bye!", she doesn't want to leave but her commitment to her
work makes her leave!
"Sure,
see you soon!"
The
camp ended on a good note as they not only acquired good number of units of
blood but also she got his number.
She
realized that she would be writing her semester finals next week and starts her
preparation. Although back of her mind she wanted to text him, but the fear of
exams refrained her from doing it.
Alankrita
is a girl with lot of passion towards her studies. She prepared well for her
exams and starts her exam tomorrow.
"All
the best!", a texted popped up on her mobile.
Due
to her busy schedule during her exams she did not care of any notifications on
her mobile.
"Aryan!!!",
Aayushi, who is Alankrita's friend sitting next to her, yelled his name on
seeing the notification.
"What?!"
Alankrita is taken by surprise and instantaneously garbs her mobile to check
it.
It
reads "All the best!".
A
smile pops up on her face, on the other hand, Aayushi starts teasing her on
seeing curves on her face.
"Aayushi!!!!!!!,
tomorrow we have an exam. Read!", she said to her.
"I
know that 'we' have an exam and what does you read? 'All the best?!' " ,
she does not stop teasing.
"Stop
it! Leave me alone for some time!"
She
thought in multi dimensional ways to reply to that text, but she stick to
basics. "Thank you! How does you know about our exams?", she texted
back.
"Akshara
told me about the exams! Haha!", he replied.
Akshara
is a mutual friend of both Aryan and Alankrita but only Aryan knows the fact.
"Oh!
You knew Akshara! Cool! By the way I was surprised by the text", she
replied.
"I
knew about your exams so thought of wishing you luck, anyways I am not going to
disturb you more during the exams, see you later, bye!", she received a
text.
"Haha!
Thank you for the wishes, see you! bye! tc!", she replied!
Alankrita
with all her strength in the subject, reciprocated the same on every paper she
wrote during the exams. Finally, she completed her exams successfully!
As
soon as she finished her exams she texted him. They both chatted for long hours,
day in and day out.
They
both shared their views, memories etc. like a conventional girl and boy chats.
Aryan
shared details about his research and Alankrita showed keen interest on his
professional research, not like a conventional girl who does not! 😉
She
asked him more and more questions about the research which triggered the things, which Aryan did not touch or think off!
He
was very happy with Alankrita's questions.
Sooner
but not later their texts turned into voice calls. They both treat each other
as good friends, sorry, best friends!
They
continued to talk for an year and half the similar way expressing their joy,
sorrow to each other. Being a sensitive and emotional girl, Aryan stood by her
side in many instances during her weak periods. She felt a feeling of happiness
from the soul and secured when she speaks to Aryan.
On
the other side, Aryan sees her as a best friend of his without any intentions
of love in his heart and also in his texts, at this moment. But he knew that,
she is a nice girl with admirable ideology. He
is fearing about something!
Alankrita
was totally impressed by Aryan, the way he talks, the ways he comforts her, the
way he makes her smile, the way he looks at her, the way he stands by her when
she needs a person, the way he handles her, makes her think more about him!
She
spent many nights with her pillow and blanket thinking about him. As a girl
with good cognitive thinking she thought in every angle possible to share her
life with him. Yes! Finally she decided to propose him!
On
a fine evening in winters during their conversation she texted, "I wish and
hope Dr. Aryan as my better half!"
He
was shocked on seeing the text as he did not smell anything like that before
with her.
She
was very excited to receive a reply for the text of her life she sent to him.
"So,
did you had your supper?" he acted as he skipped that text, with a
diplomatic question.
"Yes!
and you?" she replied knowing that he purposefully skipped the text.
At
that instant she was taken aback by the way he acted to her text of life. But
she loved him to the core and she expressed it with full passion.
Aryan
in his leisure time during his research gave a thought about the text he received
from Alankrita. He started thinking about the proposal for few days.
They
were in constant touch with each other as before, as of nothing has happened in
between them.
Aryan,
thought that he is thinking too much on the issue, so he decided that he wants
to turn down the proposal, not because he does not like her but because he
believed that a relation now will hinder him from his research, which is his
passion and also he feared about his mother, as how she would react to this!
After
few months, Aryan texted to Alankrita saying that he wanted to speak to her.
She sensed something fishy with that text as earlier he never asked a permission to
call. Her heart started to beat faster and faster on seeing the text.
She sat back and relaxed as she was very clear in her mind and in her thoughts.
She believes that he is her soul mate no matter what!
The
next day, Aryan called Alankrita and said, "Firstly I have no feelings for
you! I understand your feelings and respect them! Hope you understands me and
finds a nice guy who will be better than me. We shall be best friends!"
She
was devastated by his words. She broke down in her heart but she stood strong
in the call. There was a feeling of moisture in her eyes. She felt that world
has ended!
"Hello
Alankrita, Hello... Hello... Hello!" he was on the call but later realized
that she dropped the call.
"I
am sorry if I am harsh with my words!", a text popped up on her phone.
"No
problem!", she texted back with heavy heart.
As
friends they talk to each other, not as often as earlier, but they were in
touch at least once in a week. Aryan was surprised to see low grades in his test. As a
first reason for his low grades he put Alankrita in the list. He thought he was
being disturbed by Alankrita.
So,
he decided to stop talking with Alankrita and work seriously on his domain. He
convinced himself that, if he talks more with her he would encourage the
feelings in her and later she would repent. So, as a better choice he convinced
himself not to talk with Alankrita anymore. Here he showed the thinking of a
conventional boy/girl after a proposal to his advantage.
On
the other side, Alankrita stopped receiving replies to her texts, at least not even once in a week. She was shocked to see his
behavior, as he said that he would be her friend. But he believed in herself
and her love towards him.
Time
had passed but she was with the same kind of passion for him. She texts him on
every anniversary day of her proposal, wishing that he would understand how important
he is in her life.
Seeing
the pain and agony she faces with her pillow every night, her friends tried to
convince her to leave him. But Alankrita as a very determined girl, she says,
"Even if there is 0.001% (infinitesimally small) chance, then I would definitely
go for it! Irrespective of the context, I will go for it!".
She
is very strong by her ethics. Her friends told her to leave him and search for
her love. She straight away turned down the point of love for the second time.
On
a night out with her friends she asks, "You love a person by heart and
soul and if he/she does not accept, you go and search for second one, and if
he/she does not accept, search continues until you find a positive reply and
you say that he/she (with positive reply) is my love! My question to you is,
how ethical and genuine your love is towards the first and second ? If he/she
does not accepts you, then , you turn down your love? Is this ethical ? And if you
got accepted by the first love, you say that he/she is my soul mate and if
he/she does not accept and if you go for second and third your actions say that
your love is not genuine and ethical in first hand!"
"We
agree to the points you say, but, be practical Alankrita, don't be silly!",
says one of her close friend.
"If
you agree to my points, then why do you say I am silly?! You are unclear in
your point and not me", she responded.
"You
were a girl who was a dream girl for every guy in our campus. From years, you
were struck at Aryan and you did not even notice how your health is being
damaged cumulatively", another friend added.
"I
am being ill because I am not taking proper diet and not because of Aryan. He
was, is and will ever be my love! I love
him no matter what! I don't expect the return from him! If I expects something,
it's not genuine from my spiritual ideology. I am being myself and loving him unconditionally.
I am genuine and ethical to myself because at the end of the day, I should
convince myself than to convince you or others!", Alankrita firmed her
voice.
"We
know that you have a strong perseverance within you! But what can you gain when
he is not ready to accept you? Practically speaking, its waste of time, if I am
not harsh! You are wasting your energy and the love you show towards others. It
is concentrated on a person who doesn't even thinks of thinking of you!",
a friend of her raised her voice.
"I
believe in my love and I have hope in it! If I doesn't have hope in it who in
this world will have the hope in it! I am ethically genuine to myself and I
love being me!" Alankrita responded.
"Let
me be more practical, now you are almost at the verge of getting married. Your
parents might be seeing best partners for you! What would you say to
them?" another friend asks her a straight question.
Alankrita cries! "Am I wrong being genuine and ethical ?! You
may see me as being away from practical sense but can you say that the practical
theory what you proposed is true and ethical to the best extent?" she said
in a low husky voice wiping off her tears!
"You
are not the Alankrita we know from the years!", all of her friends sounded
in unison.
(
Will Ethics gain an upper hand over Practicality or Practicality gains an edge over
being Ethical ? Will Alankrita find her Aryan ? Alankrita meaning 'Sense' and
Aryan meaning 'Noble' in Sanskrit. Does this Sense make some 'Sense' to meet
her 'Noble' ?
To
find answers to these questions and many more... STAY TUNED!!!)
Will
be happy to listen to your views on the characters of Alankrita and Aryan, and anything related to the story, post your comments below! Thanks for reading! Cheers!
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