At 24, Akriti is a mess in all ways possible and impossible. Every day she'd search for her ikigai, her reason to wake up and live another mad day. The only thing that gets her through all the bad days is an excellent cuppa coffee accompanied by some music.
She gazes at her window, looking through the vines that grow up on her window grill and wonders what if -
What if she runs away? What if she dies? What if she gets her dream job? What if she cracks the national exam? What if she gives up everything? What if she backpacks to the forests?
All these mad thoughts visit her at random times, neither with reason nor with an answer; while responsibilities entrap her wanderer mind and childish heart. Sometimes, she's lucky enough to capture those words in a document or write them down before they begin to weigh on her or before they run away to the pit of forgotten words
Another day, another chance to change her fate, another chance to be who she is destined to be. She's always by the window at 3 pm on Sundays, looking at people as seasons come and go. Always by herself at her window with her thoughts to herself. At times, with a cup of hot chocolate or humming a song to herself.
She'll always be a dreamer of improbable dreams and holds onto hope because she knows if she lets go the void might just engulf her mind and existence.
RK.
30th May 2022
12.49 IST
