Better times takeover the good times.

Ravi had been eyeing on a girl since a long time. According to him she satisfied all his conditions. Her name was Riya. Both used to work in a same building at Malad.

Every time Ravi used to call her and asked her for company while leaving office, as they both used to leave at same time. Sometimes she used to join him. 

He always used to try to complete his work as soon as possible hoping he would catch up with her. Time passed and this continued. 

It was hard for him to avoid a negative thought about Riya. But everything as its own limits. 

She started ignoring his calls. Ravi felt his unimportance in her life. He was disheartened. 

When you live on a hope and one day comes when you see your hope fading away, what is left just the memories haunting your present life. This is what was happening in Ravi’s life.

This is not the end. A teammate named Harshita started seeing his blues. She approached him and started to interact. 

Harshita started off with discussing office pressure and later shifted directly to his performance. She knew something was wrong. 

Gradually they became good friends. They used to meet in the break time and have conversations along with sipping coffee. 

Ravi shared his life with Harshita. He told him whatever was bothering him. Harshita said “I’m not good in giving solutions, but I am a good listener.”

That is what Ravi wanted. He just needed to loose everything that was bothering him. He was not a philanderer. That’s the reason he limited his relationship with Harshita to friendship.

Ravi stopped all calls and sms to Riya. He adopted the silent fight. Riya was unaware of it first. 

Riya started realizing that something is missing in her daily life. She ignored at first. But her conscious was infuriating her work. 

She suddenly realized that it was Ravi. She called up Ravi. Ravi picked up her call. She asked him, how are you. Didn’t hear from you since many days. 

Ravi was tacit about his feelings. He just replied, “There are times when you need to stop your daily activities and see whether they are reaping any results. If they don’t, discontinue it and think of doing something better.”

Riya understood it. She cut the call. She was sensing guiltiness. But due to her ego she never said anything. 

The gap between Riya and Ravi widened. The feeling for her diminished considerably in Ravi’s heart. 

Harshita used to be with Ravi everytime. He never felt lonely. He liked her company. They could discuss a lot of things which he couldn’t with her girlfriend. 

He realized that he needed a good friend who he can share his feelings and not a girlfriend. 

And what happened to Riya. She lost a good guy, who could provide her everything that could have made a dream life.

Still Harshita and Ravi are good friends.