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The Girl And The Guitar

The Girl and the Guitar

 

There are always some unheard vibrations of a strummed cord. The music touches you in ways unexpected and unrealized. It took me a countless number of steps in the long walk to understand the music played by the girl. And with every further meter I travel, the music from the guitar is rediscovered in my heart.

Being a media student, I often found myself in two extremes of unending conversations and killing silence. Travelling to ordinary and out of the ordinary places, meeting finicky people, irritate the chaps who are at peace with their work are all a part of the course. Maybe the hustle bustle of the media life forces me to retract into the peace of silence. The company of one was not something I had discovered before my trip to down south.

The maiden meeting took place when our bus halted outside a small restaurant at the outskirts of Panvel where they served vada pav, chai, special chai and a glass of milk poured into a mixture of half teaspoon coffee powder and a couple of spoons of sugar. Totally unfit for a south Indian to term that drink as “kaapi”. Worse still, to actually call it a “coffee date”!

She had set destinations to visit, while I didn’t have a clue where I was heading.  Through the conversation I realized or maybe just felt that the damsel’s vacation would be much more happening if she visited a few of the million offbeat locations present in the holiday destination. I offered her the idea and she accepted it without a trace of fuss.

Our bus came to its final halt at Madgaon, Goa. Till then our conversation had done enough to relate each other with our respective interest in books, music and movies and my interest in her eccentric sense of humor. While the tiniest state of the country was busy celebrating its own festive season, the girl was just happy unloading the burden of her past pressure. She was now a graduate and also a qualified professional Chartered Accountant. Only she knew what she would do the next moment. She wasn’t confused, just spontaneous. When she should’ve been running around for job interviews, she decided to treat herself with the gift of a half month long vacation in Goa.

The place had everything to make the vacation special from music to dance to beaches to seafood to fenny! In those fifteen days, we travelled the length and breadth of the state, living in rented cottages, had inexpensive and sometimes even free local meal from the Goan houses. At times, fighting to separate the thorn from the flesh made us look terrible. Nonetheless the gracious girl at the height of her courtesy would decline the fish and simply relish the curd rice.

In our entire journey when the conversations for the day would head towards an encounter with sweet ending, the girl would play her favourite string instrument. Most of her guitar notes were not even learnt as she would constantly look at her book while playing. But she played her music as elegantly as they were ever heard amidst the woods! The melody of her voice was soothing. Unconventional yet touching! There was something real about her. Something genuine about her words, something about her songs that touched me. In her case, the difference just didn’t lie in the eye of the beholder. The beauty was within her. Uncharacteristically she was unfussy and unfazed for an early twenty year old girl. Even when she claimed she was scared she looked completely relaxed. I wasn’t like her; neither did I wish to be. I just admired the way she went about her life, her cup of coffee, her books, her guitar and her closed relationships. The girl was focused with definite goals, at times ambitious in a way of being blind.

Conversations would fail to stop even when our tired bodies cried for rest. There was a lot to discover in her and a lot to say about myself. As biased as I may seem I didn’t expect anyone but media students to pay attention to stupid irrelevant stories of mine. Surprisingly, she did! She spoke about her unending list of crushes and the one break-up, her treasured group of friends, her ambitions, her fears and stories of a few movies that she believed I was a fool not to have seen. We caught up with magic shows, Goa carnival, water rides and Dolphin sights. The night time were spent rather quietly drowning in her music.

There were times when we didn’t have much to say. And that happened on our way back to Mumbai. Days passed by seemingly fast. Two weeks of unending travelling, crazy moments and the time with the music all came to a sudden halt as the driver shut the door of the luggage compartment of the bus. The baggage stuffed with innumerable photographs and memories was locked in. Seated next to her, I dragged myself back home. No promises made, and at the height of stupidity no numbers exchanged.

While my eyes stay fixed on the words I type, my heart is still holding itself with the memory of the girl. In those two weeks I faced the unusual hustle bustle amidst the surrounding silence and the melody of the guitar. The beauty was to stay. It would stay with me till the time I discover her. Even in all the time we spent together, there was something still unknown. Not just her name, something more secretive, something about the girl and the guitar…!

 

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