Cobalt Blue

by Sachin Kundalkar

When you’re looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. You feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants.

Perhaps that’s what happens during the forging of a relationship: if nothing else, you adopt some of the other person’s habits. It makes you feel those small adaptations, those adoptions, make him one of you.

‘Whatever happens, happens for the best!’ That’s how any domestic counselling starts in a Marathi family.

how friendship can offer surcease from noise.

Each of us must perform our joys and sorrows for all the rest because this house has a front door, a back door and a side entrance. And often, no doors between rooms.

You’re so set in your ways, so clear about your decisions, will you ever notice that it isn’t necessary to be so cut and dried about everything?

You had a way of looking at things which seemed sharp, perceptive, cobalt blue.

I had never spent so much time thinking about someone else.