The last first coffee..

That day I went to the cafeteria, thinking about the last night. There was less I could do about it. Last few days I have been working overtime to complete the company’s targets. But this time it was different, I was losing confidence in me, even though I knew, I am able to handle the pressure, I was more into realizing that I am not happy. What am I doing here? This is not the kind of life I have ever wished for.

Somewhere I knew, I wanted my life to be different. I ordered a Cappuccino and took the corner seat, and sat with a sigh! I really had to do something about it. Memories of past, flashbacks I had it all., only I couldn’t see the spark anywhere. These seven years had been different days with the same old routine.

Meanwhile, I saw a man arguing with the cafeteria owner. He said the job was very important to him. It was giving me the feeling that he might be the sole bread winner in the family. How difficult it is to imagine financial crises, when you have never faced such them ever. Anyhow I started focusing rather on my coffee. I realized no one is truly happy in their lives. It’s just that they are looking for an escape. That escape could be anything, a decision you strongly agree with, a denial, or just simply anything. The man sat beside me. I was about to tell him the table was occupied, but he opened his bag, and took out a file. His eyes were sharp and he was looking straight into my eyes. I was getting uncomfortable, suddenly he opened the file and showed me a picture of a mountain, he said it was his dream to climb the mountain-Everest. Astonished, I watched him explaining his dream. There was this tingling feeling inside me. It took me a few seconds to come to picture and soon I found myself the most interested one to hear about his dream. At 52, yes 52 he was confident about his dream and ‘chasing it’. He said mountains have always touched his soul, and that it is the thing he always looks forward to. I listened patiently, I could see the excitement is his eyes and felt the thrill in my heart. And I drank the last sip.