3 Wishes..

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s

Stephen King

Three things I always wished were; I could cook, I could run, I could read. Just these 3 wishes which seemed to be so facile yet I could only venture some success and yes I can now feed myself and my husband. Next wish took some time as running was always a challenge for me, not running in a marathon or so, simply lace up and run near my apartment, which actually was a difficult thing to begin with and still I succeeded! And third, reading. Though I was never a good reader, I always thought reading was a special thing!

Growing up, I barely could see around me anyone reading, except one of my English teacher; I used to visit my mother in the teacher’s room in school during the breaks and often I saw my English teacher in the corner of a big rectangular table, holding a book in one hand and an apple in another. It amazed me then, how she used to deep dive into her book, when all the others around were chattering non stop. She needed no one, isn’t it just powerful? I used to get confused how can she even concentrate in so much chaos. It seemed to be like a superhuman power she possessed.

Time took its course and as I stepped out of my teen, I developed no interest in reading, instead thick graduation text books irked me, which by the way had hideous covers. During my college days I would prefer to see every single movie that released on Friday or would watch series; Prison Break, Friends, HIMYM, THM, Castle, White collar etc etc. So there was no attempt of turning pages of a novel when the semesters books lied untouched. My mindset, when there was enormous entertainment already at disposal why to bother with yet another fancy book. My Alma meter turned out to be a complete disaster, except that the degree facilitated me to be eligible to sit in the interviews after graduation and I had 2 job offers in a duration of 1 month in 2010.

In between 2012 & 2015, after having watched all kind of series; Dexter, True Detective etc, the list I don’t want to recollect now, I was exhausted; I was utterly exhausted sitting in front of computer and having my late lunch as I used to work in shifts and just watching irrelevant series or repeating friends episode for millionth time. Couple of weeks and months passed and I picked a novel from landmark store and I read it on the same day, complete novel. No that did not happen. This novel took a special corner of my home and it started giving an antique, rustic look to the that corner as the pages were aging.

So on some random day, when I had a late afternoon shift the other day, I planned to sleep late and took this book finally out of its auspicious place and started to read, approximately in the midnight. It was around 4 am in the morning and damn I kept reading and reading and this Indian suspense kept me up till 7 am. Just couple of pages were remaining but I had to had some sleep so I took off from work and slept till afternoon and later finished this book.

First book of my life

Did I read many books after this one? Was this a super start for the next reads? No!!! nothing happened then. I kept searching for the similar kind of books and then other new drama in my life took my so much energy and time that I never picked up the momentum to read further.

When I met my life partner then, he introduced me to many good movies and apparently they were all based on books. Into the wild, Lord of the rings, Girl with the dragon tattoo, Godfather and many more. He used to explain me that these movies were made good but there were myriad things which were left out and many aspects were tempered from the original writing. I used to just nod and could never comprehend what he really meant until I read my second book and then watched the movie based on it. I was disappointed by the movie.

Second book of my life

That is how I began reading the book first and later watch the movie just to judge it!

Third book of my life

Alas! 3rd wish was finally fulfilled and it changed my life in many tiny ways. I stopped binge watching; My thoughts got nourished; I could articulate things with much ease; My spectrum of vocab widened; I met so many new characters which fascinated me to begin with new things in life; Endurance to sit at once place increased effortlessly; My concentration improved and most importantly I enjoyed my own company.