Love and Lollypop

It all started with one apple. Adam, who was an averagely curious student with a habit of absorbing all the studies without going into much post-effect analysis, started consuming that apple. On that apple’s bliss (or curse), a devoted lover Eve gifted him a child. Afterwards Adam’s brain did not get curious for opposite sex anymore. He had to feed his child. So he began cultivating crops. He could not do much farming on his own, so he needed more people to help him tilling the land. He employed a few helpers. To maintain the helpers, he now needed to earn more money. He bought cows and started selling their milk. Now to domesticate those cows, he again needed some other workers. Meanwhile, Adam did not even realize when his wants had become needs and he consumed his life – piecemeal.

For Lollypop, this lesson was felt within her effervescent heart once more with redoubled truth the day she started becoming needy herself. She was happy enough without a boyfriend. Boyfriends were no good for girls like Lollypop. They were only good for girls with deep-rooted hearts and demanded romance-savviness to operate. So what would Lollypop, a romance-phobe, do with him? She did never cast a single glance of envy at all her friends who flourished their new boyfriends – the latest toys. Then, Lollypop got her first job, and with it the taste of independence. People started telling her – ‘now that you have a job, you can well afford a marriage’. Finally she went ahead, took the plunge, and entered into a treaty with a basic modelled male toy which was her first ever personal human property. He freed her from the reality and had her yapping away with him only all the day long – in restaurants, in movie-halls, in shopping-malls, in parks.. even in their physical absence of proximity, virtual yapping remained unaltered via mobile, via facebook, via skype, via mails. Half of the total figure of Lollypop’s salary got spoilt to square up those free-floating expenses and to pay all the bills. Another half of her salary vanished in the mission of flourishing and nourishing herself from a mere Lollypop to gorgeous Queen Victoria. Intention was to hypnotize her male toy in an order to prevent his attention to other attractive butterflies in the playground. Water resistant face powder, cranberry lipstick, super sparkling gloss, charcoal-dark mascara, refined liner, bubblegum-pink eye shadow, primer, shimmer, blush – all dived into Lollypop’s rich pouch, leaving her deep-pocket empty. Lollypop’s parents shut their eyes, ears and all other instincts and grimaced. As this boy gradually became her treasured possession, Lollypop thought: What was she doing without him all this while? How had she survived without him?

Time passed. Soon, male toys a dime a dozen had flooded the market, in variety of shapes and sizes, with four/six/eight-packs abs features, foreign MBA and MS degrees, CTC 15 lacs per annum - and emotional-prices to afford them had started drastically going down. Everyone was flaunting her newest model, while Lollypop was happy with her faithful, without-abs-full-of-flabs, loyal, old companion that had stuck by her through thick and thin. Without high degrees, without much in the way of looks, only his steady support showing her the way out during her days of darkness. Lollypop tended him and looked after it like a trusty old warhorse. One year later, his battery started surrendering, and he started to show signs of graceful exit.At that point, Lollypop got into depression. She started eyeing other girls and boys. Kissing each other with eyes closed in quiet satisfaction - they were fleeing away to glory. She became restless and began wanting all of that! This feature, that feature – she looked up and researched stuffs that had been Hebrew to her till then. Zodiac-match, sun sign-match, horoscope-match, compatibility ratio, temperament-match, wavelength-match and the list went on. The more Lollypop explored, the more she was hooked, and the more she dreamt, the more she craved. Finally she went ahead and bought a male-robot of brand new model in exchange of crores of bucks. Gradually as he opened up the world for her, she thought again: What was she doing without him all this while? How had she survived without him?

He became her own genie at her command opening up the door to world of magic! If she wanted to go for a drive, he gave her company; if she wanted a trip abroad, he took her to Switzerland; if she demanded a diamond necklace, he got her a whole set. Lollypop’s wish became now Lollypop’s command! Gradually her new robot rolled into a harmless looking hermit that nestles snugly in her lap. After a year, Lollypop got bored with him. His robotic nature rendered her heart hollow. Earlier her love life had been constantly decomposing, perennially rejuvenating.. not like that lacking tumultuous tides. She became sick again.

So now, Lollypop was left wondering - 'where do wants end and needs begin?' And did she ever want a boy in her life to survive in the first place? How did it start – via pituitary signals or by some external catalysts? How did that little germ of a desire grow so big that it kept growing? And was this where all wants were born? In that little germ - so innocuous, so tiny, physically invisible? Was this what Adam did not realize? Lollypop was not aware yet how to get out this “I want more” phenomenon, but certainly she did not know how to restrain succumbing. All the Christian sins played in her head :

• Gluttony – eating her own head piece by piece with the thought of dissatisfaction in her own life.
• Envy – other girls are so happy with their boys! neither they get into quarrel, nor they compromise.
• Malice – forget loyalty! she feels like ditching again this useless hermit to get a new boy.
• Lust – currently CTC 25 lacs per annum are swimming in the pool.
• Pride – she is her robot’s boss.Anger – when the robot seeks permission to play with his newly met robo-girlfriend.
• Sloth – her robot boy does it all for her, she just switches on and off to play him.

Intermission in the midst of Lollypop’s dream : A mishap occurred – Marriage, the culmination point of their love. Baby took birth. And the same cycle of Adam’s kept continuing..