At the GYM – the Revelation !
I got down from the bus and headed straight to the gym near my home. The gym was a 2-storey building ; on the first -the Cardio section and on the second – the Weights.
Soon I found myself sprinting on the treadmill. I started at a speed of 7.5 and slowly raised it to 10. I was really loosing calories but not the stress in my life.
I decided to do a 12. Three minutes passed. Lost 300 calories. But still deep inside I felt a hollow. Somehow I had to get over it.
With a firm determination, I kept on pressing the speed button till it reached 15. This was really getting hot. I was really exhausted but still I kept running on the tread.
Suddenly out of nowhere, I remembered Kasturi and his “go-to-the-roots” theory and within a couple of minutes, IT HIT ME !
The greatest truth and the purest revelation!
The calorie score stood at 500! But I had a much better score to achieve.
Had only half an hour but the first call I made was to my boss. Now it was high time that I get candid with him.
At the Home – the Confrontation!
At 8 o’clock, I rang the bell. She opened the door.
“Hi”, I said.
No reply.
“Hi, I said.”
Still no reply.
“Now please Neha…for godsake at least speak with me.”
“There’s nothing left. Anyways… I am leaving by tonight’s Air Deccan flight. Taking Aryan with me to New Delhi ( that’s where my in-laws stayed).”
“ Ok Ok..now please calm down.”
“I have told the bai to cook for you ONLY from tomorrow and don’t drink too much after I leave. You have an allergy.”
“Please Neha… I don’t know how to say it…but I am really sorry!”
“Don’t say anything. You’ve already said enough yesterday.”
“Ok ..but at least hear me out first. Even the convict is asked his last wish.”
“Bad joke. But Ok. Shoot.”
“For the whole next month, I have cancelled all my meetings, presentations and whatever. I am going to come home early and study Maths. Think a month should be enough to catch up with Aryan’s syllabus. Then I am actually going to sit with him every weekend and understand why he is not able to do better and then start the repair job…..And this is not limited only to Maths. I have some plans and I am going to try to teach him in a way in which he understands and enjoys.”
Well, you may say she was mighty pleased with my speech and I must have sounded really serious and sincere but still she had some doubts.
“Do you really mean what you just said?”
“Talk to my boss!”
Just then my cell rang. It was boss. I told her he wanted to speak with her. She did speak with him and 5 minutes later hung up.
“What was he saying?” I asked.
“That you’ve-cancelled-your-meetings-stuff.”
“Convinced?”
No reply.
“Are yaar.. ab maan bhi jao!”
No reply.
“Ok. At least do one thing. I’ve got your favourite strawberry ripple from Baskin Robbins. Have it and then I will come with you both at the airport. What time is the flight arriving?”
“Rahul!” she said in a soft voice..”Now don’t talk to me in a tone like that!”
“Think I will have to do classes for this also.”
“Don’t say a word!” she said and moved quite close to me.
I melted and took her in my arms.
“Promise me…..,” she said…
“That we will make great love tonight..” I completed.
“Now that wasn’t funny at all.”
“Ya. Who said that was funny. Shouldn’t we?”
“Don’t change topic, Rahul. Promise that you will be as caring and loving and understanding as today.”
“Now that’s tough. But I will.”
I could see love in her eyes and really felt an urge to kiss her. As I was about to lock my lips with her, she asked, “But how did you realize…”
“Thanks to Kasturi.”
Me and my big mouth.
Immediately she moved away from me. “Now who is this god-damned Kasturi, the new secretary?”
Then I had to go great lengths to explain her what had happened in Bus no.385 and even the equation.
“But I don’t get it”, she said. “Where does the equation fit?”
“Well, at the Gym running at 15, in a fraction of second I made a simple substitution.”
“Now don’t talk like a Mathematician.”
“Look here… you are x, I am y and Aryan is z.”
“What?”
“Yes… I am and always will be dependent upon you and Aryan upon both of us.
Now observe closely.
Initially x was 2, y was 3 and z was 5.
But later x remained at 2, y became 1 and z became 8.
The problem with me was that I was attaching a huge priority on my job and forgetting my responsibility as a father. That is why I was 3 and Aryan was 5.
Now Prof.Kasturi want to maximize sum of x, y and z.
I wanted to maximize happiness in our family.
So if reducing y from 3 to 1 increases z from 5 to 8…..”
“The optimal solution becomes 11 which is much better than earlier solution of 10.”Neha said.
I never knew Neha was that fast.
“Thanks.” I said and looked at her.
She was smiling and I could sense some expectation from her side. But I decided to play safe.
“You know what I’ve learnt.”
“That you should make every effort to save your wife from going to her in-laws.”
“Not funny at all. I’ve learnt not to focus on single thing, but rather understand the mutual dependencies between our relationships and figure out the best way forward.”
“ Good stuff.” She moved closer.
“ You know, Neha”, I said kissing her on her forehead, “ I think I did it well. I remembered Kasturi’s message to go to the roots!”
“But you haven’t gone to the roots yet!” Neha said.
“What ?”
“Yes..you are close but not gone to the roots…”
“Please.”
“...roots of my lips!”
Needless to say, that was my best ever kiss and you know who gave it to me…
Yes. Till that day, I believed that Maths didn’t gave me anything but on that day, MATHS gave me everything.
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