Three Pints Down - The Broken Bear

Let it be a negative post. Just let it be. Sometimes it is good to learn about something negative than going only for inspirational or positive stories. It teaches a lot.

This story which I am going to share is about a young man constantly seeking for his needs, but failing to do so, or worse, has learnt to compromise with what comes his way.

This man - do we need to name him? Let's name him Ice Bear.

(Ice Bear is a fictional, animated character from a cartoon show)

Everybody says Ice Bear has the potential to do great in whatever he does. However, Ice Bear has been an average Indian boy so far - be it academics, his hobbies, interests, and what not.

Coming to his social life, he enjoys a good relation with his family and friends and is admired for his humour, happy-go-lucky attitude, yet for being a caring, responsible bear at the end of the day.

What more? Ice Bear recently landed in his first formal job after all the usual joblessness post engineering and doing something very unique - MBA.

Life is smooth for this bear? Isn't it?

Truth is Ice Bear is not happy. And that makes him wonder, wonder and finally wander into the unknown.

Journey of Pain

So Ice Bear apparently has been in love and has had genuine feelings for not once, but twice in his life. It took him a good three to four years to completely get over the first one and was little happy in his own mediocrity until he met the second one - who belongs to the same kingdom of bears - a Panda.

But where was the problem? He didn't receive the same energy back.

Yes! Where our Ice Bear went wrong (in both cases) was that he had more from his side.

But it was very different with Panda. Panda became Ice Bear's first kiss on his 24th birthday, they became very compatible and still are. They can discuss shit for hours and have fun. They both never got into any relationship. They did not do anything after that. This remained and will remain with Ice Bear since this is the only and the highest of romantic energy he received back.

As a growing young man, Ice Bear naturally wanted more. So he asked Panda out. She said no.

And it was all cool until he realised she had feelings for somebody else who was mutual to both of them (let's call him Grizzly). These feelings from Panda for Grizzly went to cloud nine in no time.

This is where Ice Bear's second Journey of Pain started.

Wonder-Full

The kind of closeness created rumours all around about Panda and Grizzly. A brief of Grizzly goes like - a cunning badass (or atleast he thinks that the world thinks so) who has had strings of girls in the past and present, and is yet a good-at-heart bear. What more? Ice Bear and Grizzly are awesome friends lately.

Coming back to rumours - Ice Bear never believed them until Panda herself told him. That's because Panda finds a great friend in Ice Bear.

Now this is where Ice Bear goes into wondering... "Hmmm... Friendzoned... Again". And this irritates him a lot. It is not nice! Ice Bear has been friendzoned many times in the past but being encircled like that from women he has feelings for - not done!

The entire episode of revelation disturbs Ice Bear a lot. Ice Bear goes numb, feels cold, cries, cries, cries, cries, cries, cries AND JUST CRIES!

"Will I ever be able to get some love back?" - wonders Ice Bear and goes wandering into the unknown.

... to be continued