And the REASON is YOU

July 27, 2014 October 10, 2016 by Vinodini in 25 Comments

He dialed the radio station’s number with a little uncertainty. It was that time of the day when his favorite program on the popular FM radio channel was aired. He adored the particular radio jockey who hosted that time slot. Her vivacious and chirpy voice brightened his mornings when he drove to work.

“Hey there…how can Super-girl Alisha help you today buddy?” her bubbly voice cracked up the confines of his car.

“Hi, Alisha, I’m a great fan of yours!”

“Awesome! So, what’s your name, where are you from and what do you do?” she shot him the usual questions in her mechanically mastered cheery manner.

“Hey Ashish here, from Goregaon. I work as a marketing executive for an MNC. I wish to dedicate a song to my dearest wife Sarika on our tenth wedding anniversary today.”

“Oh…how romantic! Which track do you have in mind, Ashish?”

“The Reason, by Hoobastank. That’s our song,” he replied with a shy smile.

The broad smile on Alisha’s face suddenly got wiped out, replaced by a deep furrow on her forehead as her face went pale.

Their song, is it? Wife? She wondered with a sudden surge of obscure emotions in her.

“Right on. Ashish, can you help me with your full name please?” she went on inquisitively in her thick accent, her ears now sharp and alert to the familiar voice that came from the other side.

“I’m Ashish Goyal. On this special day, I want to tell my wife, Sarika Goyal, how much she means to me. I wouldn’t swap her for any other woman for all my coming life-times.”

The line suddenly went dead much to Ashish’s disappointment and surprise.

She gazed blankly at the microphone. So…she wasn’t the only one who had lied to him. She had lied to him about her vocation with the hope that Ashish Goyal, her boyfriend of two years, would easily agree for marriage if she told him that she was school teacher instead of her actual vocation as a radio jockey. She had feared that her unconventional profession of a radio jockey would not be easily accepted by him as per his expectations of a homely wife.

It was a day of some bitter and shocking revelations for Super-girl Alisha aka Aparna Singh.

In no time he heard the radio playing his request. Doug Robb from Hoobastank sang away to the irony of the situation:

I’m not a perfect person
There’s many things I wish I didn’t do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
 
I’ve found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
 
I’m sorry that I hurt you
It’s something I must live with every day
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That’s why I need you to hear
 
I’ve found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
 
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
 
I’m not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
 
I’ve found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
 
I’ve found a reason to show
A side of me you didn’t know
A reason for all that I do

And the REASON is YOU.
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Linking this to Day 27 of UBC July 2014 and NaBloPoMo July 2014.