Their Story

Theirs was an unexpected and chance meeting. It was not a gradual growing together of like-minded persons, whose acquaintance may have started in the workplace or within a club – which might provide the comforting cushion of context. They came from vastly different worlds and diverse too were their circumstances and the events and experiences that shaped each one of them. One had been injured and hoped to heal again. The other had been long asleep and was ready to wake up. So they came together abruptly, in an awkward dance of muddled minds and confused bodies. They had a few things in common. They were synchronized and in harmony on some days, but uncoordinated and incompatible on others. Their haphazard collision culminated inevitably, in disintegration. 

But turbulence has been known to shift into tranquility and they could become fellow travelers adding meaning to each other's journey. They might be like the railway tracks, which travel together to a common destination but never join. Each track of tempered steel is strong and independent; yet both run together to carry a shared burden, each validates the other, and the two are inter-dependent in a unique and infinite way. After all, there is more than one kind of chemistry. Chemistry can create substances that corrode, or it might combine elements to ignite and explode, or it might be the alchemy that purifies and perfects. Theirs could become the alchemy that transforms lead to gold…