The Audio-biliary Spasms

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The day I first encountered my audio-biliary spasms, I was twenty eight years three months and ten days old, and in the prohibitive supervision of my mom, was lamenting the past twenty eight years of gastronomic freedom, while being home-bound for being blessed with a surgeon’s knife few days back, when my apparently nonexistent gall bladder revolted against my definition of freedom, and tried to impose upon me its own definition of peaceful co-existence, by refusing to deliver any more bile, blocking its counter with a large chunk of cholesterol stone. And here lies the trick. It’s such a trickster!! The stone, by means of its composition, again claims me to be the culprit for all these. So in other words, my gastronomic extravagance has paid back by stealing my gastronomic freedom! Well… let’s call it a day….. no more bilious refutation of allegations and counter-allegations…… lets come back to the business…. the business of boring the intent reader with other not so extravagant thoughts, ideas, lamentations and redemptions.

Right then…. I got my first audio-biliary spasm when being on a strict dietary regime, characterized by unthinkable banality and blandness, one of my friends informed me about a wedding reception where they all satiated themselves with culinary marvels, and it was a cellular phone that conveyed these message through the ether, excited the hair cells in my cochlear labyrinth. My cerebrum was no late-responder and my biliary radicles were excited to give me a pang of pain.

Now the pain in itself is not so important, as everybody knows nowadays, importance lies with the reasons and rhymes of the pain. The pain encompassed my stolen gastronomic freedom, my inescapable absence in the much-awaited wedding of the beautiful sister of my friend, my yearning for meeting all the perpetrators of the crime of living the life with me till date. The pain threw me back on to lamenting over the times we spent together, the laughs we laughed together, the cries we wept together.