You are sitting in a comfortable chair relaxing.. You realise the quientness around.. And In No Time you are deep in thoughts listening to The Silent Words... Let Them Speak for they will Surprise You..

The Halt

Posted by Nikhil Patokar On Saturday, October 02, 2010 8 comments

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 15; the fifteenth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

There I was leaning onto one of the columns on which, stood the enormous structure. Which basically had a big roof with some added rooms underneath and few raised platforms. Just then I heard a loud voice Speaking above me. The Voice was coming from the Big Speakers fastened to the column. This seemed to amuse the nearby children, how happy they were to be at such a place. The excitement, eagerness was
Easily visible due to the glow on their faces. Watching them I went back in history, the first time I came to a railway station. It was so much fun. It was amazing a feeling to notice the pictures in your textbook to
Come alive... as I was just beginning to drift away in memories, the loud voice erupted again. She was with news; the voice just informed us that the train I was to board was running 30 minutes late.

An unexpected halt at the station, great I thought. Let’s find a place to sit, I thought. There was an empty bench nearby. I thanked god this station was not overcrowded with people. Finding my way through the kids  Who had started playing around by now, I reached the bench. There I sat alone, a lonely soul as always looking lost in thoughts. So lost that a normal person would certainly declare me a fool. Lost deep in thoughts I  Felt something vibrating on my body. Only to find the Cell phone vibrating. Cell phones are just nuisance sometimes, I thought. But had to take that call was from my best friend.

''Okay. When I have the answer to your question I will definitely let you know hey don’t you worry. Everything will be fine. It’s just a hard time it will pass by.  . Take care. It will be fine..." saying this I hung up the Phone. I was clueless about what the answer to her question was. I was not sure even what the question was. But one thing was for sure, I had to find an answer to her question. It was the least I could do to help her  Out of this painful situation.

Thinking about the situation she was in. One way she had the past. It was a perfect relationship. Everyone said they were made for each other. But somewhere in the middle of the perfect relationship things started
Going wayward. Slowly it went out of hand and sadly they separated. This Past had always came back to haunt her. Even years after, she still shivered on thoughts from the pasts...And On the other hand was her
Future. But the future showed her no promise. She still had some glimpses of past with her so the future never looked a good prospect. Everything was misplaced. It was an unsolved Jigsaw puzzle. But it had to turn  Good at the end. But where the hell was this good end...

I was feeling numb. She had asked me to help her select a way. But I felt both ways were the same, they dint have that happy ending everyone looked for. Glancing around, I saw a train coming. It was moving very
Slowly. Then it came to a halt. People got down from it and left. But the train dint move again. I was staring at it. And a sudden joy gripped me; I had found the answer...

She was at a station in her Life. She just had to ensure she took a good halt before moving on. She just had to ensure that she doesn’t take a bad decision  only just to move on...LIFE would certainly move on but she had  To make sure she was moving onto the right path... I was just about to call her for the answer, but my train had arrived. It seemed my halt was over and it was time for me to move on...Hoping to take the right  Train in my life I hopped on...

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