
She gazed into the redness of the wine.Everything beyond was inordinately beautiful. The red coloured them to perfection. The glassy distortions carved them beyond mundane recognition. She hadn't touched it yet. But her smile was already drunken with satisfaction. She ran her finger along the brim, down the length of the glass's curve, sensuously, greedily.
The longing in her eyes was evident. But she was scared. Scared to put the red warmth to her lusty lips. Scared that it would be over before she began. Scared that the longing and emptiness that followed would be too hard to resist.
The bartender gave her a long look. He knew. "Take it. It'll be over. But it'll be good while it lasts."
Her lips quivered as she wet them. She felt the warmth cooling on her lips. Her tongue sought out every last drop. Her breath quickened, she snatched the glass and drained the rest. The last trickles clung to the edges washing down like tears. She gripped the glass in despair, with the tenacity of clinging to life.
The glass shattered.
Dulled brown eyeballs, wild with fear, followed red tears that rained off the edge of the table.
Before you let your thoughts run wild, this is about losing a love or friendship you get addicted to and can't do without, not perverse addictions to some night ramblings. Get it? and i think most of us here know what it means except a lucky few.
This post is also from me to my friends here on bogville. I know i'm hopelessly irregular at the blog and i hardly manage to comment on your blogs and most of you are already writing me off. Be i am really going crazy with classes and final exams and entrance exams preparations and an internship. Please don't abandon me. I'll be properly back after march, though i'll continue posting intermittently. Then i'll have to go off in may again..coz of entrance exams . I'll need an
asylum soon.
Image: courtesy jjohn652, Flickr
Chriz said...
girl... i felt like drinking wine...
and suddenly you cut the scene and started talking emotional stuff
you should have gone with the flow and intoxicated me..
January 21, 2009 9:22 AM
Chriz said...
what is the title for this post faraaaaaaah!!!! you misd it cos u r stoned>?
January 21, 2009 9:22 AM
M. Umer Toor said...
lucid, breath-catching style of writing (need not comment on it though :). very absorbing. if it wasn't symbolic at all, it'd have meant nothing to me...
January 21, 2009 9:24 AM
Abhinav said...
Nasheeeeela post..
I am feeling drunk myself..
Exams ko maaro goli.. cmmon.. !
January 21, 2009 9:25 AM
Think Tank said...
@chriz ..actually yes ..i forgot ..and don't worry ..next time ..when i get time ..i'll xtend this into a drunken post ..feelin thoda emotional now so wrote emotional stuff ..it'll change then i'll write stoned things ;)
January 21, 2009 9:26 AM
I'll try 2 be truthful said...
i dont think I"ll abandon you bcoz y dont put in your comments !! final exams are definitely more important . all the best gal :)
yaaa losing a friend to whom you are addicted is .... quite like what u described .
some fade away to make way for the new ones.
January 21, 2009 10:25 AM
Rakesh said...
heheh we uys wont abandon u all the best for the preparation
January 21, 2009 11:19 AM
Awais said...
Lovely post :) Great descriptive power.
January 21, 2009 12:32 PM
Lash said...
i felt you shouldnt have posted this at all. Not the kind you normally deliver..somewhere you missed out and the post looks a little forced upon.. U are a much better writer ( from the handful of posts i know you ) . This is not you in full form..
January 21, 2009 12:38 PM
Meera said...
Hey nice one!
January 21, 2009 5:20 PM
Trinaa said...
wish i were one of d lucky few! :(
niiiice poshtt love! :)
January 21, 2009 7:46 PM
Cяystal said...
I agree with Chriz..It felt like drinking wine, and suddennly someone takes the glass, and smashes it to pieces..
But whatever..this was great!
January 21, 2009 10:31 PM
oo7 said...
will be waiting
:)
take care ji
January 21, 2009 11:38 PM
mayz said...
cheers!!! :)
January 21, 2009 11:50 PM
santoshi said...
excellent post. The way u weave the words and express urself is superb.
January 22, 2009 12:24 AM
tinkerbell said...
muaaaaaaaah farro ;).. moi emo baby !!
btw, aapki foto, MashaAllah!! where d'u get such outta the world ideas from !!!! ;)
January 22, 2009 1:54 AM
Sakshi said...
Nicely written. :)
And i like your template!
S.
January 22, 2009 2:21 AM
Mithe said...
hey! thats totally ok-continue writing and we will comment
best of luck always:)
you are awraded-visit my blog:)
January 22, 2009 3:40 AM
HP said...
mast likha hai ... :)
January 22, 2009 5:05 AM
NE~ISM said...
Farah! This was great! I loved how you intertwined the addiction of love to a shattered glass also! Girl That is one addiction that has a love, hate relationship.. but I love to be drunk on it anyday!
take your time, I am going to be here to read your part 2 of this..
January 22, 2009 5:17 AM
sawan said...
:) alcohol and tears go along pretty well!! nicely written. al the very best for ur exams..
January 22, 2009 6:17 AM
RiverSoul said...
woooohooo
Looved that pic!!
nice
:)
January 22, 2009 6:53 AM
Swayam said...
addiction to anything... scares me... esp to humans... the have the tendency to hurt you the most...
January 22, 2009 7:29 PM
d gypsy! said...
absorbin
January 22, 2009 10:11 PM
lala said...
been there done that... alcohol doesnt solve any problems though... but it did help me forget them, or maybe remember then even more... whatever it was, it wasn't good. the only thing i have learnt is that dont trouble yourself for an unnecessary and trivial reason. there are others who love you.
and about being irregular, well, my work is very hectic right now... so even i hardly find time to write, let alone read what others post. all the best for your exams.
January 23, 2009 5:30 AM
Sarath said...
lovely description...
n atleast mai to am not abandoning u..
January 24, 2009 5:56 AM
Think Tank said...
Just want to say thank ..to evrrrrrrrrrybody
January 24, 2009 6:57 AM
the poet manque said...
love is an addiction and affection a habit
creative
January 24, 2009 9:53 PM
Ayushi said...
Aah...I aim for a time when I will be able to de-addict myself by my own mind's will, that will be complete rationality: the vision and acceptance of reality.
I believe the mind has a lot of power, even to heal,... ever been unable to do something? You just have to know what does it, sometimes, I become the person who has done it because I cannot bring that quality in me isolated, and it becomes easy... I can speak volumes on this lol.
You do bring up stuff which is like a revision to my thoughts, I'm not gonna desert you! :P
January 25, 2009 2:19 AM
Swati said...
oi!! first things first.. all the best :)
and we've ALL been there :)
January 25, 2009 9:48 AM
peter said...
nice post but as usual i am late ..and it's stale :D
anyways ..do concentrate on ur primary objectives ..and best of luck for xams :D
January 25, 2009 3:52 PM
deluded said...
there she goes
there she goes again
January 26, 2009 12:17 AM
Lena said...
Really great written! Loved how you caughts the emotions here. In life we lose too often and each time it is not simpler to deal with it. Maybe even more complicated when it happens again.
And girl, we are here.. you just take your time :)
And good luck with exams.
January 27, 2009 12:10 AM
aZoed said...
i'm already drunk as I write this... absorbed way deep into that glass.
January 27, 2009 9:32 AM
Abhilasha said...
hey the description of wine made me forget the emotional stuff.feel like gulping it down.
really intoxicating...
January 28, 2009 6:25 AM
Abhilasha said...
hey the description of wine made me forget the emotional stuff.feel like gulping it down.
really intoxicating...
January 28, 2009 6:26 AM
SAURABH AGGARWAL said...
that was some description.. no one can say u weren't talking about wine..
best of luck for ur exams..
January 28, 2009 11:44 AM
joiedevivre said...
asylum mein net hota hai kya...
devi kabhi online bhi mila kar
January 29, 2009 12:54 AM
Princess Mia said...
yur probably not as hopelessly irregular as me hehehe so chill pill
padai pe dhyaan do abhi n we shall catch u laters...take care dearie..
miss u...hugs
January 29, 2009 12:33 PM
Arti Honrao said...
Perfectly written and, yes it does give an impression that it is about something one is addicted to and cannot do without...
But, in the end -
Life teaches us a lot of things!
Good luck with all your exams
GBU
Arti
January 29, 2009 1:31 PM
Shy said...
Arre when did we write you off?? Tum to amazing ho hahaa =]
Amazing post..loved it..
be back =)
January 31, 2009 4:37 AM
Leo said...
all the best, jaldi vapas aana! :)
January 31, 2009 11:11 PM
Manjari Shukla said...
great work,
ummmmmmmmmm loved it!!!!!!!!!
February 2, 2009 12:51 AM
How do we know said...
aaah... i like red wine as it is.. but get the point u r trying to make. only, why a wonderful thing like wine to explain a painful thing like addiction? :-)
February 3, 2009 3:31 AM
deluded said...
where she is?
where she is again?
February 7, 2009 10:04 PM
Divya said...
oye ladki!! phikar not! tu eggjam likhke aa jayiyo.. hum to yehi hai.. abandon ki baat hi nahi hai!
February 11, 2009 6:04 AM
WarmSunshine said...
the narration was very interesting :)
February 12, 2009 1:24 AM
Toonfactory said...
Beautiful writing :) real cute...write more often..will ya?
February 12, 2009 6:05 AM
Hobo ........ ........ ........ said...
I like the flow of the writing.
Too good. Write movie scripts.
February 15, 2009 10:40 PM
Divya said...
you've got something on my blog :)
http://slateumchalkum.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-birthday-p.html
February 16, 2009 10:31 PM
Nidhi said...
hey nice post. very well written
n chill ya. Happy studying. we r here for u always. We wont abandon u
February 20, 2009 4:57 AM
Tiger said...
Dont worry. There will be light
February 21, 2009 7:34 PM
Stupidosaur said...
Hmm maybe I am amongst the 'lucky few'? Or am I...?
What final exams, entrance exams, internships are going on?
February 22, 2009 7:22 AM
How do we know said...
babe, pls post more.
February 23, 2009 4:58 AM
Writing for Crows said...
Abandon we will!!!
February 26, 2009 5:59 PM
Bhai with Chai said...
..u hit it where it hurt d most.. woman!
realll nice post..
and best of luck for exams... nothing above studies..! :)
March 2, 2009 10:36 AM
Avatar said...
Your writings are nice to read. Hope to see more of your writings. hehe. :)
March 20, 2009 3:14 AM
Jagjit said...
Ah, nice one. Long time, yeah. I am as irregular as you. And I am thirsty for wine now. :) :) and I am not one of those lucky few :( but nice post. and be regular now :) bye, tc.
March 22, 2009 5:54 AM
Raghav said...
aah. that is brilliant.
lovely writing that.
could do without the disclaimer at the end though.
March 22, 2009 6:05 AM
Chronicwriter said...
i knew a blogger called thinktank.. is she alive>?
www.chronicwriter.com
March 22, 2009 8:55 AM