Night Club for Emotions
Stress can be awkwardly funny at times. I met Stress at a very early age. I don’t exactly remember the story of meeting Stress, but Stress has been in and out of my life since forever. A number of people and situations introduced me to Stress again and again. Good old friend of mine, I always smile and greet Stress, no matter what kind of friend she brings along. Usually it is either Anxiety, or Depression, or Numb that she dates. And sometimes all of them together (I never figured out how that works). But of course Stress is bold and no one-man woman. Her partners change all the time, and she likes them dark and strong.
But sometimes when Stress overdoes herself, she dates her girlfriend – Crazy. Now Crazy has got bipolar disorder, and happens to believe in hanging out with weird partners all the time, both men and women. One moment Crazy is seeing Angry and the next moment it is Giggles. You never know whom you’ll catch Crazy with. There is Love, and Happy, and Revenge; the list goes on. This unpredictability of Crazy is what attracts Stress the most. When Stress meets Crazy they both go all funny and dangerous. Their favorite dating spot is ‘Apocalypse’, a place I keep running into every now and then. You never know what that place is capable of. It’s filled with unknown adventure that gives Stress and Crazy a major adrenaline rush.
I got Stress visiting me now, and that has turned off Peace. Stress and Peace don’t really see each other eye to eye. Peace is the perfect room mate I have always longed for. He is the best, but he is fickle and impatient. True the chances of adventure and thrill is almost non-existent with Peace, but Peace has a calming effect on me. Peace is like a breath of fresh air that fills my heart and touches my soul. But Peace is selfish in his own way. Every time I get someone else visiting me, Peace ditches me and vanishes for days. I keep calling out to Peace again and again, but he moves in with Ego at that time. Ego is a real pain, someone I would rather avoid coming across. Peace and Ego don’t really get along. Moving in with her is just his way of punishing me. I know Peace likes Happy a lot more, but they like to keep their relationship a secret and hardly visit me together. A few times that Peace and Happy came over, it was wonderful. Beautiful memories I still like to take a peek at, and hope to bump into again.
But they are all my friends. I like some of them, don’t like the others – but nevertheless they are all my friends, and I welcome all with a smile (real or fake). So naturally when Stress came to see me I couldn’t turn her away. Peace left instantly, but Happy lingered back in the hope of getting to know Stress. Stress however brought Depression and Numb with her, and Happy being the shy guy kept looking for a chance to make a move. Crazy heard about Stress coming over and couldn’t contain her excitement. She caught hold of Giggles and came over soon after. Now Happy and Giggles are best friends, but it pained him to see Giggles dating Crazy. Happy knew Crazy was double-timing him and Giggles, but actually seeing them together brought about a different kind of pain. Hurt and feeling defeated, Happy left soon after (possibly seeking out to Peace for comfort).
My room is full of assorted guests – Stress, Depression, Numb, Crazy, and Giggles. Weird enough this group seemed to have a kind of bond between them. They laughed and fought and sulked together. They even formed a club called ‘Pandemonium’. I am their ring leader at Pandemonium, caught in the middle of it all. Stress had declared that the group was open. Anyone can leave, and anyone can join; except the ring leader. The word of declaration was soon a major topic of discussion at the Apocalypse. Anger and Ego were romancing one evening at Apocalypse when they heard of Pandemonium. That night I had two new guests – Anger and Ego. The night was still young when their laughter rang across my room. It was a wholesome gang of Stress, Depression, Numb, Crazy, Giggles, Anger, and Ego. My favorite boys – Peace and Happy were far away in their favorite hangout spot called ‘Miracle’, lost in each other’s eyes, completely forgetting all about me waiting for them to come back to my room.
By the way, did I mention Apocalypse is buying my room mainly to sponsor the ventures of Pandemonium?
