Episode 115 : An affair to forget

'So when are you coming to Bangalore?' I asked her.

'Never! Too many memories.' she said.

I smiled to myself. 'You too, eh?' I asked.

She smiled. 'Yes, me too'.

'Bangalore is where I met him, many years ago. The city had begun to need repair then itself. I hear it is worse now.'

I nodded to myself.

'So what about you? Have you gotten over your heartbreak?' she asked.

I smiled again.

'I think I have. I go past the same places that she and I walked together. Had breakfast together, drank coffee, walked together and whispered sweet nothings to each other.'

'And now, it hardly strikes me that I did all that only two years ago.' I added.

'Good for you.' she said.

While having this conversation, it did not strike me that exactly a year ago I walked out of my relationship with X.

Someone once asked me how one gets over somebody.

I replied, 'The only way to get over somebody is to not think of that person. And that happens when you make sure you have no time for yourself.'

Along with that, I sand-paper memories away by going to all those places with someone else. Not necessarily a love interest. It could be a friend; it could be a group of friends. And sometimes alone, daring myself to remember the past.

I did it with Bombay.

I repeated it with Bangalore.

Today, MG Road, Brigade Road and St. Marks Road form a part of a different set of memories.