A simple relationship

I switch on my PC and there it is waiting for me. I don’t know how this wallpaper found me. It is as special or ordinary as the ones before it. There are days when I have no time to even smile at them and some days when I have enough life, I stare at them and wonder why they chose me. Just like a dream, you never know what has impressed you through the day to live those particular threads of stories when you are least in control of yourself. All wallpapers are a form of daydreaming, I guess. The interesting ones, boring ones, tiled, stretched, centered ones, even the blank ones. If you string them all together you would see a pattern, the reason. But don’t do that, they don’t like it. They consider themselves nonchalant, with no purpose or motive behind them. All they want is to hang around. They don’t judge you while you go about doing what you do around them or mind if some other pixeled dream wants to take their place. They don’t scream for attention or expect anything, not even an acknowledgement or memory of them. Although, some will speak to you if you are game for a conversation. If you ask them to wait, they will think about it and in all probability hang around and stay for a day or two. But they too will disappear like we had nothing to do with each other. There was one that stayed longer though. Two school kids swinging from the rope tied to a tree, caught in the moment, completely oblivious to the one gone by and the one to come. Maybe it had something to tell me or perhaps it had nowhere to go. But then it did go. I’m happy for it. It’s essential to move on.