Toffees 'n' Memories

The other day my friend's father brought some toffees home. I picked up a few while on my way to office and stuffed them into my pocket. Not because I wanted to have them, but because I wanted to give some of them away to my colleagues. And while I made the routine journey to my office, I was flooded with memories of my childhood. That made me smile, and I realized that even though my childhood was a long time back, some things didn't change. I was, in some ways, still the child, the person, I used to be back then.
When anyone got me a lot of toffees, I used to stuff as many as I could into my pockets, while going to school the next day. Contrary to the other days, I just couldn't wait to get to school. Then I would gather my closest friends around and distribute the toffees between us. It gave me immense satisfaction and happiness to do so. It was as if I was sharing a part of a treasure that I stumbled upon. It was one of the fun things that almost became a ritual, yet never stopping being fun.
And it's strange how memories bind themselves to almost everything. Everything.

Love. Peace. Empathy.

K.P.S. Gill touched a womans posterior and landed in Trouble. Newspapers. Court. Jail(Almost).
My friend fell in love with a woman. Then fell Out. Then fell in. Then fell out. And then Fell in. Again.
God, Nature, I dont know which, must have made a mistake. And where, I dont know. Maybe I dont have the guts to know. But I am sure of me thing. That We are not meant to be together... men and women. We are totally different species altogether. Theres not enough space in this World for us both. But fate has entwined us so, that we keep crossing each other paths and we keep encroaching on each others space.We both would have been happier. We both would have been ourselves. The way we wanted to be. The way we were meant to be. Some great philosopoher had the brains (and the guts) to drop the slight innuendo, enough for the understanding intellectuals. "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" said he. Maybe we are. Maybe we should never have left.
Women perenially complain that men dont understand them. Men dont. For the fear that Women might overhear them. They are even afraid to think. Maybe we should just go back to where we belong. Both of us. And just be ourselves.And till then, we meekly obey the laws of nature. Mould ourselves in each others casts till the other one is happy. Then we decide to be happy because we did the (almost impossible) task of changing ourselves against our (martian) wishes and in keeping with our(earthly) desires.
And we will live " Happily Ever After". Till we figure out how we came here, and find means of reversing the process.So that we can go through it all over again.
Because, when all is said and done, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
Because, when all is said and done, Earth is where we belong.