Life, Part II

And so the first phase of life has ended, though a bit earlier than it used to in the Vedic times at the first quarter of life considered to be 25 years, I've had my fair share of schooling and learning, and finally I'm out in the market, to find my worth. That’s the typical way a boy's life would progress, and then there's this other way, where-in comes along a girl (NOT BROUGHT ALONGY BY THE BOY'S FOLKS), and a lot of things though appearing the same, change from their very foundations. I never thought it'd happen to me, but that’s where my Phase II started!

I decided to fall in love once. Yeah, you read that right, "decided to fall in love", and not the typical "fell in love". I wasn't any good at expressing emotions or receiving them as they should be, so it was a conscious effort for me to fall in love, rather than simply falling in love, naturally, in the spark of  a moment. And though that experiment did pull on for some time, it finally ended. And having drawn my conclusions, I decided one trial run was enough for my "falling in love experiment", and decided there don't have to be anymore, and my good old life continued. But not for too long. The good old life was very short lived, and things were about to get really interesting, bordering on ethereal actually.

One fine night, amidst pleasant cold and light wind, a really cute girl, came and kissed me on a deserted stage. And boy the world started spinning faster, as if someone had put the earth on some sort of Turbo mode, to bring by more and more times of fun and happiness, I hadn't seen before, more and more frequently. That’s the moment Phase II kicked in, when I "fell in love". Effortlessly. In my own way, I was head over heals into that cute girl, and I knew it very well, but somehow couldn't accept it immediately.

Well, time plays its role, and the realization soon dawned, that boy you've lost your footing already, resistance is futile, and all you can do is give into that powerful gust, and be blown away by it, to places far and  wide, which you had only dreamt of, and see how the world looks like, through the magical window called "Love".

Its been long since then. And it is now that I truly realize what a treasure came by my way, in that lovely face, that warm and caring heart, and that strong and noble will of hers. In her never yielding faith, and belief in me, in her strength to stand by even when I'm at my worst, and that tiny but strongly shining light within her heart that held on to the hope that I will relive again. That I shall enjoy the company of another, more than my own. That I shall let my self be cared for by another. That I shall one day imagine a future where-in I would like to do those fun things with another, with her…

I see my words have decreased, but somehow, each and every single word carries a thousand times greater weight now. One word means much more these days than my entire paragraphs used to. Even punctuations say so much these days and the story keeps unfolding towards pleasant surprises.

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