The cool breeze playing with her hair, she keeps tossing her head…she knows she’s looking pretty. She knows she’s beautiful…her sharp eyes on that beautifully chiseled face…she looks like an angel sent from above. And she knows…men gawk when she’s striding by…..women burn with envy. She walks past with a swirl…her feet dancing on that stone road. She knows she’s being admired, she knows all! Her smile, yes the sweetest of all…shines on all alike…she is just too much in love. The pink tone darkens, she blushes every five seconds. His eyes is all she thinking about, the way her full lips curved just seeing him. There is this unsaid, unspoken radiance shining on both of them alike.

Sipping hot coffee playing with the car keys, he’s been sitting here since she left. The coffee shop still smells like her. She left 2 hours ago and he’s still here blushing in her aura. Gosh! What’s happening to me?! His heart still beating fast, asking the same question over and over again. His fingers are restless, remembering the touch. He just can’t stop smiling. It’s sweet though, he keeps saying lost somewhere…in a blissful bubble. Love? I don’t know whatever it is I am happy I am HAPPY!!

It’s like that fuzzy feeling in your tummy, the baby soft sweetness…the dreamy eyes and the conspicuous glow. Like a blooming flower, unawares of withering ahead and unknown of how it grew, its just there…! The moment is so divine leaving goosebumps all over.

Love’s not always about commitments, about confessions…sometimes it’s more beautiful breathing it…love is all about being happy, feeling the rhythm inside…no words…nothing…I am here, just celebrating love, the rising in love…the high and the all-embracing warmth…the endless giggles, the twinkling eyes, the fluttering heart…
Live love and the love shall live….

Mansi Raj Singh

Have relationships lost their meaning these days or is that people have become a lot more assertive? Maybe open minded is a better word. So this woman I was talking to was giving me statistics (don’t know if they are right or not) saying that around 40% of the marriages in Delhi end up in divorces. She said that she would encourage her daughter to have a live-in, it’s better than having a divorce later on. I don’t know how many of us would agree to that statement. We however cannot overlook the fact that divorces aren’t a big deal these days. A little later on this woman who I’m talking about also gave me a piece of advice saying that “whatever you do never marry your boyfriend”. She was a little shocked when I told her that I don’t have one. She said I was missing out on “all the fun of life and that it’s your age.”

Then I thought maybe I got it all wrong. I always thought of my ideal relationship somehow ending up in marriage. Anyway let’s not get personal.
The point that I am trying to make (yes there is one) is that in order for a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship to lead into a marriage and then the marriage to work out there has to be a lot of effort that goes into it.

So the “mushy:” stuff and the “fun” part of it can actually take a backseat till you reach a stage of complete understanding. When giving becomes more important than taking. You probably would in such a relationship not be very satisfied initially, you might not think of it as something very special, you might not feel like it’s the most awesome feeling in the world. But this sort of relationship probably has a better chance of growing into something more beautiful, with time, than the conventional sort of relationships we come across everyday of our life.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am right but the bottom line is relationships like
everything else require a lot of adjustment and sacrifices and it has to be mutual. If one person puts in more effort than the other a break-up is inevitable, so these things have to be worked out at the ground level.

Ridhima Thakral