Innocence

It is moments of innocence that binds two people together.

Makes sense?

Those virgin moments of growing up, those pure moments of enjoying music together, those moments of pure emotion during a calamity.. that one moment when time stands still and all pretenses of life shake off and humanity is experienced in its purest form.

Still doesn't make sense, right?

Anina is a great friend of mine.

We got related by some inexorable twist of fate. Music, as they say is a language without borders. Music, brought us together and between song and song list swapping we became close like ne'er before.

The regular problems that I used to face with women was completely non-existent when it came to anina. I would never be able to have a long conversation with a pretty woman. With anina, it was simple. The kind of bond we shared, the conversation would direct itself in directions perfectly comfortable to the both of us. And no conversation, was as simple as pie. We would immediately start talking about some new music. And so, we discovered each other.

She was a deer caught in a cage.

I was a deer caught in a car's headlights.

One day it so happened that I picked up a magazine. And as I flipped the pages disinterestedly, I chanced upon the fashion section.

And that one moment, my jaw dropped, my head reeled and I did a double take.

That moment I fully grasped the power of relationships. That unalterable bond that grips two people when they meet in their innocence.

I would never imagine anyone in a magazine to be innocent. Much less be pure and unpretentious.

Anina was the glamorous diva in that page.

That moment my perception altered.

*Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of certain individuals.
*Published under the act of individual privacy 101.