Dhak..dhak. Dhak..dhak. ……dhak.
Ha! Not so impressive way to start a piece but you got what just happened there, right? The heart skipped a beat. While in medical science, skipping a heartbeat is a condition, we know how beautiful this is when we are in love. Even his thought makes our heart behave abnormally. Sometimes, it starts racing and sometimes it slows down to nothing for a second.
When the heart dances on the rhythm of his breath, it skips a beat when he holds your hand. Well, love has that effect on you but this blog is not about it. It is about all those other instances when romance is not the factor in the equation, maybe fear, maybe excitement. So, let’s see what are these cases that take the heartbeat away for a moment.
#1. You put your phone in the purse for 10 minutes and get 10 miscalls from your mom
How can she have so banged on timing? She won’t understand that you put the phone away for just 10 minutes. She would tell you that you are the most irresponsible person on the planet. She was scared to hell when you didn’t respond and she makes sure that the feelings translate. So, every time you miss calls from your Mom, you skip a beat thinking Fir Wahi Drama Yar, Koi Bacha Lo Mujhe.
#2. You are bitching about the dress your boss is wearing today and she is standing right behind you
Oh, very clever guys, that’s why you were unusually quiet. Otherwise, you would have said even more rubbish and mean things. Anyhow, giving that look to your colleagues isn’t going to do any good for you. Your boss has heard it all and she is obviously not pleased. After your heart skips a beat, your whole life flashes in front of you. Bimaar Ma, chhote chhote bachche. Ha! I mean you start thinking about the future like; what job you would be taking after this.
#3. Getting a call from your dream company
This is actually for good reasons. Our heart skips a beat when we are shocked and it skips a beat when we are thrilled too. When you interview at your dream company, you think about getting a call all the time. When that moment actually arrives and you see the company’s name on your mobile screen, your heart go Dhak dhak and you only blank out for a second.
#4. Seeing the traffic police while driving and you realise the seat belt is not on
Yupp!! You know the feeling. We all love a little me time and zapping out of the house in the car or activa is our favorite. While we are singing and driving, seeing the traffic police brings us to the reality and we soon remember that the seat belt is off or where the F is the helmet!!
#5. You reached home and updating an app, and suddenly see the mobile data On instead of WiFi
Agree or not, it’s truth. Even when you have loads of data remaining and a few days to expiration of the internet pack, reaching home means WiFi connection. At the times when you forget to switch from data to WiFi and then suddenly realise that for the past 1 hour you are still the data, the heart misses a beat. You run faster than Usain Bolt and turn On the WiFi.
#6. Getting a text from him; three words and not those you want to read
Need to Talk.
Please do not send such messages like an early warning. Either send whatever you wanted to say right away or wait until we meet next. Not giving the specifics is pretty scary. Even when you say it positively, we start thinking whole shit and who knows what conclusion we may come up with. It only feels nicer when those three words are actually what we are accustomed to listening and reading on WhatsApp.
#7. You wrote a pretty good article in MS Word and light goes off
We all have been there, right? Once in a life, we all must have lost some data when the electricity decides to leave us at the most vulnerable times. Yeah! Heart surely skips a beat thinking you have to again write all that Mahabharat again about which you have a little idea what you wrote the first time, thanks to Wikipedia.
Yeah! So there’s that. Oh just now remembered one more time when such thing happens; when we do not find our mobile at the regular place. Specifically, when we reach home and the mobile is 404 (not found) in the right pocket or in the handbag on the first go. It’s there but it sometimes finds fun in playing Lukka Chhipi with us. Only we know that those 5 seconds are the hardest 5 seconds of our life. Did I miss anything? Well, what makes your heart skip a beat?
Readers Nukkad 