Vijay Kumar Verma.

Life…
is a strange kind of journey.

Not loud.
Not always clear.
But deeply, quietly… real.

Some days,
it wraps you in sunlight—
like everything finally makes sense.

And some days…
it casts a shadow over your soul,
and you’re left searching for pieces
you didn’t even know you lost.

We walk…
and walk…
and somewhere along the way,
we lose ourselves.

Only to find—
on some unexpected corner of existence—
we were never truly gone.

Just… hidden.

Like a river,
we don’t stop.

We break,
we bend,
we crash against the edges of who we thought we were—
and still…
we flow.

Have you ever felt alone
in a room full of people?

Smiling on the outside,
while something chaotic stirs within.

Because it does.

Behind every face—
a story unfinished.
Behind every silence—
a truth waiting to breathe.

And all this noise…
this chaos…

One day,
it will fade.

The names,
the roles,
the masks we wear—

gone.

And what remains?

Not success.
Not applause.

Just a feeling…
soft, familiar—
like a memory you can’t quite place.

~~~

Vijay Kumar Verma, resides in Calcutta, the city of joy. He was a Banker since December 1985 and retired in April 2017 from the State Bank of India where he served for 32 years.

The author’s website:
infotainmentbyvijaydata.wordpress.com