ADULTING by Neharika Gupta

Author:Neharika Gupta [Gupta, Neharika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘What do you mean, like teach?’ I had considered it.

‘Yes, eventually teach.’

‘Where? Delhi University, between Dryden and Pope? That’s not me.

And the exam to get qualified is something else.’

‘We’ll figure something out for you,’ Aisha said.

‘And you?’ I asked her. ‘Will you continue with social media for Litracy?’

‘I have no clue. I don’t plan these things out,’ she said. ‘They just happen.’

‘And your parents?’

‘They are good with whatever. I don’t want to work eight hours a day forever, Tejas. I like doing my own thing.’

I thought about what I liked doing, and the half-baked plot I’d been toying with. I didn’t know anymore.

‘This is for you. I found it lying around at work.’

Aisha slid across a copy of a book called The War of Art : Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles .

‘I know you’ve been having trouble submitting material. This might help you.’

‘I’m not having trouble with anything. It’s all on my computer,’

I lied.

‘Oh. I don’t mean to intrude. I do like the way you write. You know I loved your book.’

‘It took you three months to read it,’ I said.

‘But I did read it. It is too, uh, intimate. Is that the correct usage of the word?’

‘Yes. Intimacy. But more than that, vulnerability. That’s at the heart of all good writing. Putting yourself out there. And it’s not nice when someone tells you how to do your job,’ I added softly. ‘You know what, though? I’m sending you a short story. Do with it what you will.’

‘That’s great. And I get it, Tejas, okay? I won’t nag you about this. It’s between you and editorial.’

‘Thank you.’

‘And I don’t mean to pry but I couldn’t find any of your writing for May. Ruhi said we can quote from your journals at times.’

‘I lost that Moleskine.’

‘Moleskine, you mean diary? Like this one?’ She picked up my leather-bound black diary.

‘I saw one like this in Ruhi’s bag on the trip.’

‘I have a lot of writing in there. Maybe she forgot to give it to me. I’m not going anywhere near her though. You’ll have to ask her for it.’

14

Delicate

– AISHA –

Sunday, 18 September

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‘You’re spoiling me, Tejas.’

‘I know.’

It was Sunday. I usually spent the day having a long soak in the tub with bath salts and a magazine followed by writing a blog post. Now I’d started going for morning runs with Tejas. All the better. I hated looking at my overflowing self in the mirror. I hardly wrote on my blog these days; my readers did not seem that interested in reading about food and fitness. All the attention went to the #metoo articles circulating these days.

Today, however, Tejas wanted to write, so I went to Lodhi Gardens without him and he asked me to meet him at his place after.

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