Love @ Staring
Love always comes as a surprise,
you cannot resist. There is a saying: Ishq
Par Zor Nahin Hai Yeh Woh Aatish hai, ‘Ghalib’, Jo Lagaaey Na Lage, Aur
Bujhaaey Na Bane. This is a love story of a strong girl Simran from Punjab
who falls in love with a loving and caring boy Raj from Kolkata.
Why the hell on this earth that
boy is staring at me?” said Simran to one of her best friend Myra. I have seen
this boy, this boy is staring me from the first day of my engineering day. One
day I will knock down his head as I don’t feel comfortable when people do such
things. “I think he is in deep love with you but not having courage to face you
directly so he stares” said Myra to Simran. Simran shouted over Myra and told
her that there is nothing called as love in this world and they left for the
hostel.
This is how the semester got
completed and they started staring each other without a single word and only
one thing happened in the entire semester was “staring”. Same thing started
again at the beginning of the second semester. I liked these stuffs but
suddenly something came into my mind and I just get up from my seat and grabbed
the seat next to him in the cafeteria. He was socked with my behavior. I asked
him what he wants from me and why he is doing these things. I told that I
belong to a family where caste and religion plays an important role. There is
no future if we try to continue these things. I was talking like a hanged tape
recorder without a single stop pause. The answer from the boy was unexpected,
“are you an astrologer? Arey we have not tried yet so how can you come to a
conclusion and left the cafeteria for the class. I also left for my next class
after lunch.
This staring thing was still
going on. That was the night that I can’t or don’t want to forget. I got a call
from an unknown number. I picked up the call and it was his call. Although I
was very happy with the call but from the front I started enquiring lots of
things like how did he managed to get my number, why did he called me at this
time. Being a girl I have to ask these things because I can’t say that I love
the way he stares and the way he was talking over the phone. After having a
long conversation over the phone, I was in a comfortable zone, I explained him
the issues of my family’s conservative and old bloody religious thoughts. He
convinced me that lets first understand each other and after that we will
convince our parents if we are sure about relationship.
We continued our conversation for
almost 6 months and on the first day of my 3rd semester when I was
going for the registration process with him, he gifted me a box and told me to
open that box in the hostel alone. He also told me that he will call me if you
like the gift then call me immediately because knowing your thoughts is the
only priority for me.
After registration, I went to the
hostel and unwrapped the gift. It was having a small silver pendent with a pic
of both of us and a letter stating I wanted to be in your neck for the rest of
my life. Please tell me yes and I will promise you that I will manage my and
your family. I just need your love and support, nothing else. I was crying like
anything and forget to call him as I was thinking about various ifs and buts.
Next morning when I visited
college he was neither in classroom nor in the cafeteria. I asked his roommate
about Raj. He told me that he is not feeling good from yesterday night. I went
to the hostel and knocked the door. He was having swallow and wet eyes. I realized that I have done the blunder and I
hugged him so hard with only one statement, “I am yours and you are mine”. He
hugged me so tight that I can feel his heartbeats.
I was on cloud nine; I wanted to
pause this time. I was having a best friend for life cum a very caring and
loving life partner what a girl can think of. The 3 years were the best phase
of my life. We are still together supporting each other in cementing ourselves
in the corporate world, the first pillar to establish my love. This is a very
important phase of my life because a stable career can help us in convincing
our family. I know we are still having 3-4 years but sometimes I feel the
dragon fire that what will happen if I will not the yes from the family
members. I can run away with the boy but the marriage is not about just two
people because it is about the entire family. We are working day and night on our
first pillar of the love. Hope I will get the support of god as well in
achieving my goal of “THE STARING LOVE”. If I will succeed, I will not say this
as love at first sight but will say love at staring.
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