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Tomorrow's yesterday
Words can mean a million things. They can scorn and hurt; hurt you so deeply that they constantly remind you of everything your not and everything you want to be. Other words can mean everything; make you feel that everything in life is great. Some words can hold the keys to your heart. Three little words making you understand everything. The same three little words uttered by me, to him on a regular basis. How do you fall in love, Riddhima, you had asked me one day. From that day, I have been searching for an answer, from reflections of other people's lives, from books, stories and even from you. You always realized when I asked you this question subtly so that I can come up with an answer but somehow you always caught me in my own silly little game. In those times I was torn between kissing your dimples and poking your eye.
Everyone tells us that we are a pair of complete opposites. Armaan how is that, a pair of opposites can exists so synchronously in nature? They are always attracted to each other. Isn't that what everyone says? I understand the nature of opposite co-exists, but never at the same time. They always come one after the other, but never together. Even if they do manage to exist independently, they never reached a point after a threshold was reached. Night always follows the day. It's the rule of nature to not have opposites exist at a given point of time. Even two chemicals that attract each other, like acid and alkali, cannot exist with each other. In that moment I was gutting out all my insecurities that I could possibly think of from our togetherness.
"We are complete opposites, but we are not mutually exclusive. We make a set of complete opposites; a set where one element cannot exist meaningfully without the other", you had replied not looking up from the comic book you were reading. When you had looked up to see my face, I could see a crazy calmness behind you eyes.
"Day and night co-exists during dawn and dusk. When two opposites meet, a miracle is created." I had initiated a hug that had lasted for exactly seventeen minutes that day. I had ignored his perplexed look once my heart had started to calm down. When two opposite chemicals are mixed, there is heat, there is light, there are fireworks and then there is a new identity of the fresh product; all original ingredients would have come together, sacrificing their individuality to create something new; like salt or like dawn or like dusk or like horizon or like a dream or a lot like love or something like us. A small miracle.
Armaan, I think I finally have an answer for you, you know for the one that you asked me about how I fall in love. Well, here it is. Love has eyes like mid-summer sky that seem to pierce through a mask of fantasy. Love has dimples on the chin where I can take a dip on a hot summer day. Love smells like earth after first monsoon rains. Love has fingers that heal the wounds of the heart and bring life to the flesh of the dead. Love has a smile of a thousand watt. Love is always unexpected yet strangely familiar. Love has a name. That name is Armaan. It may seem silly to you, but to me it is true. You are like an epiphany that my existence was waiting for; you are like the last clue to the puzzle that has been put in its place and suddenly my life is having a new meaning and I have finally come to realize that the world is something more then a place to be. It's a place to live.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow will be here. Today is a miracle.
Sookie
Words can mean a million things. They can scorn and hurt; hurt you so deeply that they constantly remind you of everything your not and everything you want to be. Other words can mean everything; make you feel that everything in life is great. Some words can hold the keys to your heart. Three little words making you understand everything. The same three little words uttered by me, to him on a regular basis. How do you fall in love, Riddhima, you had asked me one day. From that day, I have been searching for an answer, from reflections of other people's lives, from books, stories and even from you. You always realized when I asked you this question subtly so that I can come up with an answer but somehow you always caught me in my own silly little game. In those times I was torn between kissing your dimples and poking your eye.
Everyone tells us that we are a pair of complete opposites. Armaan how is that, a pair of opposites can exists so synchronously in nature? They are always attracted to each other. Isn't that what everyone says? I understand the nature of opposite co-exists, but never at the same time. They always come one after the other, but never together. Even if they do manage to exist independently, they never reached a point after a threshold was reached. Night always follows the day. It's the rule of nature to not have opposites exist at a given point of time. Even two chemicals that attract each other, like acid and alkali, cannot exist with each other. In that moment I was gutting out all my insecurities that I could possibly think of from our togetherness.
"We are complete opposites, but we are not mutually exclusive. We make a set of complete opposites; a set where one element cannot exist meaningfully without the other", you had replied not looking up from the comic book you were reading. When you had looked up to see my face, I could see a crazy calmness behind you eyes.
"Day and night co-exists during dawn and dusk. When two opposites meet, a miracle is created." I had initiated a hug that had lasted for exactly seventeen minutes that day. I had ignored his perplexed look once my heart had started to calm down. When two opposite chemicals are mixed, there is heat, there is light, there are fireworks and then there is a new identity of the fresh product; all original ingredients would have come together, sacrificing their individuality to create something new; like salt or like dawn or like dusk or like horizon or like a dream or a lot like love or something like us. A small miracle.
Armaan, I think I finally have an answer for you, you know for the one that you asked me about how I fall in love. Well, here it is. Love has eyes like mid-summer sky that seem to pierce through a mask of fantasy. Love has dimples on the chin where I can take a dip on a hot summer day. Love smells like earth after first monsoon rains. Love has fingers that heal the wounds of the heart and bring life to the flesh of the dead. Love has a smile of a thousand watt. Love is always unexpected yet strangely familiar. Love has a name. That name is Armaan. It may seem silly to you, but to me it is true. You are like an epiphany that my existence was waiting for; you are like the last clue to the puzzle that has been put in its place and suddenly my life is having a new meaning and I have finally come to realize that the world is something more then a place to be. It's a place to live.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow will be here. Today is a miracle.
Sookie
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