Shopping with my 'boyfriend'

 

"I will be late, today", I told him, as I started pulling out my car keys. After waking up from a deep slumber, he sat up rubbing his eyes, his attention wavering over to a stack of cookies that I had left for him beside his bed. I smiled. The chocolatey draft had probably woken him. Taking a bite, he asked me where I was going. 

"To the mall, I need some stuff", I replied in a hurry. Blinking his eyes like a five year old and munching at the same time, he said that he wanted to go too. Assuming that he also had things to buy, I gave him a nudge and asked him to get ready as soon as possible. 

As we drove over, I told him that it would take me some time to shop. He quipped up that it was cool with him. We parked our car and headed over to aisle 5 to buy some spices and ingredients. As I started scanning the racks, he drifted over to the stationery section to buy some notebooks and pens that I needed. It took us some time at the counter as there was already a long queue. After the job was done, he suddenly replied that he had seen a dress the last time he was there, one that he had though I would like. 

The dress was off-white in color with a beautiful floral pattern which reminded me of the colors of Autumn. It had a stack of tiny golden buttons down the front and looked very chic. I smiled and told him that his assumption was indeed right and that it was beautiful. I asked him if he needed to buy anything else. If not, we could buy two bubble drinks and head back as it was already getting late.

He replied that in the last couple of weeks we had not spent a lot of time together and he had just wanted to come over and keep me company. Our busy schedules made it very difficult for us to meet up with other people.  Even today, when I had visited him, he had just gotten back from an appointment and had fallen asleep. It was the same thing with our friends. It was then that I realized that in this mega fast world, we had compartmentalized each and every tiny part of our daily lives and unbeknownst to us, time was limited and before the clock strikes 12 and the carriage turns back into a pumpkin we should try to savor each and every minute as much as we can. 

It was my wish to make him try a bubble tea. However, we never got around to doing it. As I had predicted, he picked out the weirdest sounding flavor in the shop. I laughed out understanding that it's always the little things with our closest people that make us smile and that we should do it more often to get a bit of a respite from our mundane lives.