There are so many things that we associate with Love. The tingling feeling when you touch for the first time. The fireworks that you feel when your lips meet. The chemicals go through your body when you think you are in LOVE. In the times where Love is like your social media feed and no one truly understands what Love truly means!
He was just her teacher. She could never imagine anything that could happen beyond this relationship. Him being her mentor and she is his student. She came to his lecture every day without fail. She did not like daydreaming or writing his name on her notebooks. But she did enjoy their discussion in class. Their conversations sometimes turned into the two talking and the rest of the students just listening. His words were poetry to her, and her thoughts and take on the topics discussed were fresh air. At that moment, there in their talks, they both felt a strange attraction. Love is also about the interaction of intellect.
She met a dashing officer on a train journey. She had a veil on her face the entire time and they talked through the night. It was a magical journey that may have led to something. Their mutual attraction to each other was palpable. But it was not based on looks but was purely on what they felt when they conversed. As the lights dimmed, she hugged him and shed a silent tear. And without even seeing it, he felt her pain when they bid goodbye. They were thankful for this utter bliss in that conversation with a stranger. They fell in Love when they knew they did not have any future. When they can not be together beyond that night.
He met her online and just wanted to protect her from a certain someone. Their friendship moved from being on each other’s following list to much more. There is a pic that defines how they felt at that moment! The contentment in her smile and that subtle relief that she is mine! That feeling that nothing in this world can change now- this utter feeling of wow at that moment is Love! They may not have it anymore, but they may feel more or less in the years that follow! But at that moment, they had and felt Love as it is meant to be.
Love is not what is shown in movies or romance novels. It is what is experienced in that moment; sustains you for a very long time. Having been in that moment and feeling Godly is something that not many would feel. It is a private moment, edged in the memory for eternity. Be joyous that you had the opportunity to have been through it. Not many get to experience it or even understand it.
When the fairy tales end, the proverbial end, “They lived happily ever after”, has a profound meaning. It does not mean that they will be in a similar blissful state for the rest of their lives. The story ends there deliberately because that is the high point—the highest point of the feeling of Love. What comes next is the commitment that follows to continue on the journey. Love can not continue for days and years. Being in Love can only warm you up from the inside; you can only bask in its glory for the rest of your life!
A mother of two, Preeti Bhandari is a colloquial writer. She believes in simple living which reflects in her writings. As the Editor of Narisakti, she intends to use her vast experience to propel this platform to a cult status among entrepreneurial networks.
When not writing she is quilling, both with paper and thoughts.
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