Hi, How Are You.......?

Years later and miles apart, she finally gathered courage to ask him over a cold text on an October evening. Shocked and ravaged that it took her so long to want to reach out and ask him.

"Scarred...Marred...Devastated...Shattered...Broken into pieces... Would you even understand this? Do you really want to know the cruel truth?"

He was certain that his reply would not garner any kind of empathy about his loneliness from the only woman who broke his heart, his appetite for love. He composed his feelings, took a sip from his half empty can of soda, and replied - 

"I am wonderful".

Rules of Staying Unbroken......

He always kept his things neat and tidy, until she stomped out of his life. That's when he realized the mess they had created. His heart was in shambles but the rest of him was just okay. He kept wondering - "How long does it take for this mess inside to disappear, to be sane again? It hurts".

And then, he found her staring at him in one corner of the cupboard's top shelf. The slate was their book of life. He had tossed it away the night they fought, the night she left him. He could throw the slate away but not the words written on it, in permanent marker.

Rules of staying unbroken

Don't call. Just show up.

Don't say sorry. Just fix it up.

Don't walk away. Just stay.