My watch stopped working. Shopkeepers said- it’s cheaper to get a new watch than to repair it.
What will happen to this now ? It has been 12 years of wearing this. I saved up and bought this in class 9th.
It has seen me in various phases of life. Board exam stress, impatience of waiting for results and impatience of waiting for my salary, it’s been through all my dates – red flags, green flags both. It helped me clear CLAT which I did only to impress my crush and it tolerated me silently even after getting dahibara spilled on it when I was complaining in front of my friends after I got rank 127 because he failed and he blocked me. It got its first scratch and didn’t complain even though the mistake was mine.
It used to be on my team in every important meeting. It saw my nervousness mixed with confidence in the meeting where I negotiated my salary to 22lpa and also my numbness when I got laid off over an email. Every important decision I take I silently crave its time and timing to be right. The time I cherish the most was the times when I did nothing but listen to the rhythmic tik tik sound of my watch while enjoying the changing colours of the river due to sunsets/sunrises.
Like people say- “doobte ko tinke ka Sahara kaafi” , this watch has been my constant in the ocean of changes in the last 10 years. I am not a fan of change. I like the same things. Music should be acoustic, food should be less spicy and clothes should be of a particular texture.
I don’t want much. I am content , sometimes too content with what I have. I carry my entire wardrobe in a backpack, that’s the total clothes I own. Travel taught me that but this watch was my companion in all my travel adventures too. My mother gets worried that someday I will run to the mountains. But I am too attached to some things like this watch to become a sanyasi and give up Moh Maya.
Obviously I didn’t expect the watch to survive 2 world wars and generations but I did want it to be there. Is it too much to expect ? I know I can get a new watch in 10 minutes but how do I transfer the last 10 year memories into the new one ?
