It was 03:00 when my cell phone buzzed, I was so torn out that even the buzzing made no great effect for my unwillingness to receive the call but the third bell left no choice for me then to see who is calling?
The call was from my childhood darling Ruth and moreover it was from her landline which compelled me to receive the call. With distorted voice I answered the call. It was her mum; it was the first line instead of greeting word “ hello “ which made me jump out of my bed. Her voice crumpled when she repeated the line “Ruth is missing “. I was struck numb. What do i do now? Who else do I call? Where is Ruth? One after another quest was taking plunge in the pool of my cerebellum. My thoughts came to stand still when her mum called out me again “Are you there?” which I had to answer with “uh, yea yes Mrs. D’Urbervilles I am there “.
And within no seconds her mother was drained in tears, I just pull myself back, took a deep breath and grabbed some strength to say “Mrs. D’Urbervilles , just relax and please tell me what is wrong?” Her mum again repeated the line “Ruth is missing “the only difference, this time she was sobbing badly but the words; so the words cluttered. But, on another hand I was fuming , as I fail to understand why people keep on saying the distaterous statement again and again I was just in no state to hear that statement again. I again kept patience and finally made her mum speak and finally she came out with another set of words” you please come home now “. This was a real suspense going but the curiosity and gut in my mind forced me to do things as she demanded.
03:30; and I left house buzzing our group to inform about the call which I was still considering as a nightmare and like it had to be; all our group of friends consisting of, Carol, Kayne, Martha , Andy, Thomas and Sydney reached Ruth’s place with mixture of emotion and pile of question set. There was a dead silence, I was left in tumbled emotions as few days back; it was the same house which was full of laughs, joys and fun. My eyes caught the most beautiful sight in her house; it was Ruth’s photograph was which framed on the side table…. Man what is this going? I couldn’t move from that sight.
Ruth, a very bright girl with charming personality and someone who lived life to fullest and I guess that was the thing that made us close to each other as we shared the same wavelength. Few months back, she was on cloud nine as her family had accepted her courtship, and arranged the date of her marriage with Sherwin who meant everything to her.
Sherwin was just like the one whom she dreamed of. A very sober, calm and loving person. And moreover he loved her immensely. Perfect couple; but like nothing is perfect in life and like always god plays a vital role in all such show. Yes, this time it was the destiny and gods will for this act. A week before their marriage rituals; He took away Sherwin in one of the most dreadful floods of New Orleans which had left everyone in the city spellbound. The floods in city washed every dream of her. Sherwin was no more and this was the reality. But this reality also took away Ruth from us. She was suffering from “DEPRESSION “and we knew it.
“Sherlin, what do we do now?” this time it was Sydney who got me back and was expecting an answer from me. I had no answer to his questions but we had to find Ruth; her parents were completely shattered and were in hope that we will find her as we were her BEST BUDDIES. And I had no guts to face them with and negative answer. I just looked at Sydney and I don’t know like he always understood me, he said “ok lets go to school, may be she was somewhere around there”. We all headed towards our school, but only this time there was silence everywhere …… may be because everyone was occupied with their own heart and mind. Some praying hard and some thinking hard.
We dint find her near school , school church , our garden , near our ice cream zone, food corner where we hogged …… and there was a deadly silence within everyone and the only heart was beating with a request “ No , god. Not this time with Ruth “. Which suddenly made me strike the place where she and summit would spend loving time? A place which meant of great memories to her but what made my heart to take huge leap was that place was just next to railway station. And I bounced with my thoughts to everyone.
I think we dint walk, we were actually having an Olympic. We got split ourselves on four tracks in hope that we don’t find her here. But as it is actions are always opposite to hopes Andy and Kayne who were together found her walking on track. They plunged into big leaps and caught hold of her and gave all of us call that she is found. We felt as if we were dragging someone who dint knew that we are her friends. We actually had to shake her and then there went a huge slap from me.
The slap dint only woke Ruth but brought everyone to hold their breath as they knew me more then what I knew myself. I had never raised my voice in group and now I was something weird. But what happened to me was so spontaneous that it was unbelievable even for me till date. The only thing I said her “you want to die go and die, GO. But before going please take your parents along with you we are not here to take their calls at such weird time and go running behind their daughter. So in this sense no one suffers neither us and nor your parents. Instead of making two people live like zombies its better they die with you. You have lost sherwin, now you lose your parents”. My friends went numb looking at me.
THAT’S IT! And the next words from her were “ I want to go to mum and dad “. And I guess she was back. She was back from that crap phase of depression. Depression is a phase where everyone is life has to go. But sometimes it is too late for some people to come out fortunately Ruth came back before … I don’t know I don’t even want to think about it. But yes the amazing cure for depression is LOVE. It was the love of her parents. People suffering from this force themselves to believe in some invalid concepts and try to get away from people who love them.
Depression is just dark clouds which surround the sky for little time but a ray of sunlight creates a long road for hope. While walking back to her home we all somewhere knew that Ruth is coming back even if it was because of fear …. A fear of losing her parents after Sherwin has concealed her mind and heart. And I was right; it was the love for her parents that brought her back to them as I saw her hugging as tightly as she could to her mum and dad. Even they knew they that their daughter is born again.
It was dawn by then and I guess dawn had took over took the darkest hour and every one of us were smiling as we knew; we pulled out the long night.
Are you all thinking why is it all that I am sharing this with you people but I want to all readers that no doubt, science is taking giant leaps and curing all disease and unstableness of human nature but I want to remind everyone that nothing almost nothing in the world can win over love. Depression victims are not the ones to be left only with psychiatrist, counselor and pills. They need us, they need us to understand them and stand by them. Make them feel that nothing; almost nothing for the matter can stop us loving them and what only they need is to share their mind and heart, get relax and believe in MAGIC.
I can just conclude with plea that just doesn’t leave your loved ones who suffer from depression …. Just Walk With Them …. Like Sometimes It is Just Important To Walk With Some One.
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