Letting you go
You know how they say it takes some days of consistently doing something to make it a habit? Religions all over the world have some sort of protocols for it. The Hindus have 9 days of Navaratri or 21 days of Ganesha. Muslims and Christians have their 40 days of abstinence. And once you follow this, you usually come out cured of whatever you thought you couldn’t get away from. In your case, it beat all these benchmarks. You haunted my mind, many times subconsciously in my dreams, even till a few months back. And every one of this dreams had the same premise. You saying this was all a prank and you’re perfectly fine. Then a couple of months back, few weeks before your death anniversary, I saw this dream. And it was the last one I saw of you. I was out with a few friends at a bar and I suddenly freeze. Everyone in the table asks me what’s wrong. And I say Bala is here. They don’t understand me. But I can see you standing next to us. You’re frozen too. No expression. Like the last tim...