Eighteen Inches

“You call that happy? I call it illusiion!! Love is a chemical defect, it works exactly opposite to your common senses. It is destructive to logical faculty.”

"No, it is wrong", the brain said, loudly this time, perhaps with a bigger fear. The one who is afraid is the one to talk louder because he is the one who needs to show that he is not afraid!! An actor can imitate everything, but how can he imitate reflex action??

"Why is it wrong?", heart replied. My heart was speaking for the first time in seventeen years, and yes it had logic!! "Is it wrong to be happy? Is it wrong to be with the person that can make you smile without any reason? Is it wrong to live your life with a REAL smile and not a FAKE one? Why is it wrong?", heart was furious, "I don’t get it", said the heart!!

"You don’t get it, then darling, at least try to get it!! You call that happy? I call it illusiion!! Love is a chemical defect, it works exactly opposite to your common senses. It is destructive to logical faculty. Listen, when you make your happiness dependent on others, that becomes your pressure point, and there baby, you loose it. The only reason you are able to fool many people is because you are a beautiful lie, and I, I am the hard truth, and I am not like others, NO, I am not the common wealth!!", replied the brain heavily. It was brain, the logical centre, talking about logics, giving reasons, looking at the advantage and disadvantage of every single item, through every angles possible. It always did one cool thing that impressed me, it gave logics and played with a cool toy, reason!!

There was difference of eighteen inches between these two bastards, brain and heart and say there was world war between them!! Cannon balls flying over them, none of them willing to loose, both equally competent!! Yes, there used to be frequent fights between them, but brain would always win. But this? This was far too big. There could only be one winner. Even, thinking of making these two co-operate with each other would be simply stupidity and I by no means was stupid. Defeat of one of them was certain!!

"Oh, look at you dear brain", it was heart's turn to reply, "talking loudly, giving logics!! Your logic can conquer moon, but it can never explain why a hungry mother would feed her children instead of feeding herself? And there, yes, there your logic fails!! I know that you won’t admit it, but your LOGICAL FACULTY is destroyed in seconds, the moment she smiles at you!! Nah, you talk big, your logical faculty is nothing!! The real truth is, you are a real big coward brain, you're afraid you'd lose her, so you're giving these logics, masking yourself and you're speaking against love just like the fox saying, "the grapes are not tasty". The fox wants it, but it cannot get it, so it simply says that the grapes are not tasty. Nahh!! You're just a big coward. Today you're afraid that you'd lose her. Look at you today, you're afraid!!", heart was in absolutely no mood to lose!!

Afraid? Me? Baby, have a life. I don’t care about other bodies, but in this one, I am the king, and you are only an appendix. And that perhaps is the reason why I right at people's head and you are below me. I am the logic centre, unlike you, I clearly know what is right and what is wrong, and I decide it in seconds using senses, but you?? You talk lovely stuff; you talk exactly what one wants to hear. You appear beautiful from outside, you appear bright, you attract moths, and later burn them with your heat. And darling I am not a moth!! You're just a big liar, giving others false hopes, giving them unnecessary puzzles and you watch them dance.", brain had all the winning experience. It knew exactly when to play the hard balls and when to play the soft ones!!

Brain would communicate me by sending impulse and heart via hormones. Impulse would travel lot quicker; brain had a clear advantage over heart. "Listen champ", the impulse said, "The game of life becomes too elaborate for people, they simply get carried away. They forget their path, they forget their goals, they forget their ambitions, they forget their purpose and they get distracted, they flow in sentiments, emotions and feelings. I have high sympathy for them.  But tomorrow, I don’t want you to be like them. Yes, it appears lovely from outside, it is persuading, I accept it. But its false, it is fake, it is simply an illusion, it is mere a mirage. That thing beating in your chest is your heart and you should never let it rule your head. Because the heart is fake, it gives false hopes, makes people believe false things. It is a spider, it makes thousands of threads and it is simply going to clap as you dance in its web.", said brain, trying its best to persuade me. I had never seen my brain struggle so hard to convince me. May be this followed the Darwin's law, "Survival of the fittest", remember it? It was do or die for both of them!!

At the end of the day, the brain was right!! People begin to flow in sentiments and forget what is right and what is wrong. They see what they want to see, they hear what they want to hear and they interpret the way they want things to be. Yes, the brain was completely right. That thing beating in chest should be a vermiform appendix, just pump blood and that is it, you're done there. The brain was right.

"Tring", "Tring", my mobile rang, it was her text. Involuntarily, I smiled. "The game is not over", the heart replied!! Eighteen inches, eighteen years, and damn it, the game is still not over!!