XI. Dream - Built It In Order To Destroy Family
XI. Dream
”I wonder if life gets any better than this,” pronounced Tracy as if she were making a statement of enlightenment. Two plates of pasta were served on a simple wooden dinner table. Plain dish. Angel pasta with boiled salmon and broccoli. Sour scream was used to mix them all and ground pepper added kick; Parmesan cheese added flavor. Salad was served and a bottle of red wine sat on the table. Very fine dinner yet certainly not the most expensive one. But, for no apparent reason, Engineer felt that this was a perfect moment. The flat two stayed was near the university; it was not the most luxurious flat, but it was a comfortable place. He said, “I don’t know …” and he meant it. He continued, “What else do we need?”
”I don’t know …, ” smiled she.
Life seemed to make sense, and it was an inexplicable moment. It was a momentous moment in his life. If happiness did indeed exist, this was one such moment.
”Huh,” Engineer woke up uttering the sound of silence in his head. It was a dream, but it was an actual moment of the past. He wondered what she was doing now. Back when he was in the graduate school, life seemed so peaceful and excellent. Neither he nor she could continue living like that though; they had to move on. Reality of life often separated those who did not wish to part, and Posteriorly speaking, that was what happened to them. They kept in touch still, but the contact was sporadic at best. He wondered what she would think about how he was living now. ‘Does she approve of him?’ ‘Does she care at all?’ He asked questions that the weak, that he defined, asked.
Maybe he felt lonely all of a sudden. ‘Was I looking for the intersection of romance and structural engineering that would transform the city?’ He wondered, but then, he thought that it was an absurd question. ‘What is so romantic about structural engineering?’ ‘And why should it matter at all?’ And besides, it was just a dream. He was staying up late everyday this past week; though today was Sunday, he started working as he got up just like any other Sunday. But he felt exhausted after he spent a couple of hours working. So, he went to bed and took a nap. And that was when he had this dream.
