Words, promises and silences(Changing times-P 14) - Page 2

WOW!! when I read it , I could see myself being that girl...It said everything which I want to say to my future husband one day...👏

So many people have already said, but I would still like to repeat, I too share these feelings...

Wonderful.

Originally posted by: dqno1

Beautiful as is Maggie

I want to write the counter version of this

five years later or the male POV

but for me your writing it will be worth reading😃

missing u everyday😃

Originally posted by: .Maggie.

Will you believe me if I say I was expecting this and am grinning at the moment?

My answer would be a resounding yes for the next million years. Please please please write a reply for this letter🤗

A/N: For Shika with love..

Text in pink is written by Maggie

Text in blue is by me..

Of words, promises and love ..

A husband's reply

5 years later

Dedicated to Jojo

Dear Future Husband,

I for a fact know that you would never get to read it. I do not write this to impress but to express. At this moment I do not know where you are, what you are doing. Five years from now, you would be here, right beside me, perhaps sleeping in the bed, while I would be reading it again.

***

My most beloved wife,

I have lost my keys yet again and after fumbling everywhere in my drawer, I have messed up yours now.

Somewhere in the nooks and crannies of your drawer are small pieces of paper, like little folded papers stuck in the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem.

People leave their wishes, dreams and worries there so that the higher powers solve them. You wifey use your top drawer.

Early in our marriage I noticed this tendency of yours. Anytime you were worried or some "event" happened at our home, I would find you curled up asleep in the window seating with your small writing pad. After carrying you to bed I would nosily read what was worrying you.

Your scribbles have helped me understand you, helped me know the little things that upset you. There was that once when you accidentally singed the vegetables and Mom scolded you, another when my sister accidentally ripped your favorite dupatta and yet another when I forgot your birthday. We were newlyweds and stupid me had no idea of how to make a big deal of these things. I hope you have forgotten this one blunder by now and remember only the other birthdays spent with me.

I am sure Mom will give you her usual lecture but I am now confident that my persuasion and my love has made you strong enough that you will ignore it. You have figured out by now that Mom has that retired principal tone of voice and she means no harm.

***

There was a time when I thought there would never be a relation such as this but now I know. I know that it is difficult to run away from responsibilities.

***

As far as responsibility is concerned, you and I get a family lecture on that always. Everyone in society from our elders to the neighbors to visitors give us lectures.

At first it was the lecture for me to grow up and make a steady income, then it was for you to be a dutiful bahu inspite of your job which takes away over 10 to 12 hours of our time.

Little do these people who are free all hours of the day know how tired and stressed we both are at the end of the day. It is good that I pick you up from work everyday. It gives us that special half hour to hug and soothe each other before we face the "home front" together.

I get to look at you to my fullest desire instead of getting scolded and being called a "joru ka ghulam". I get to pamper you by getting your favorite butterscotch ice cream on a hot summer day or your favorite roasted bhutta when it is cold. It is the time of the day that we get to laugh at the latest email PJ or gossip about our coworkers; it is time of the day that I most look forward to in my horrid office.

As for responsibility being our only tie, I agree but not the way you think.

***

No one ever asked me what I want to do in life. Neither had I shared. You know what I really want from life?

Freedom.

These dreams look childish and unreasonable to you, are they? They might have. They will to every other sane person.

***

Your dreams are not childish. In fact I wish I could fulfill them, all but the being alone part. I want to explore the world with you also but we are like a kite that is tethered to a pole. There is only so far that our sky reaches.

Perhaps one day, once our budget increases, we can untether the kite.

My wish would be to take you to Switzerland first. They say that if you stand on tippy toes, you can touch the sky. Will you go to touch the sky with me?

A woman has to get married by her twenty fifth year, rear children, and shoulder responsibilities. A woman can't travel the world alone, can't do all the things she wanted to.

***

I agree with you on this point.

Why is it so hard for others to let people live their own life? First the rush to marry, now the pressure for a child.

I have also been getting the grandchildren lecture. We are still young and we have our own planning. As I have told you always, it is our life and we will live it our way.

For me life has been a fairytale since you came into it.

My own golden goddess who used to be shy and quiet fills my life with her chatter, her whispers and her caring. She silently comes in every evening to me listening to my worries, soothing my tiredness, blushing at my naughtiness, loving me with all her heart.

Her care and love have taught me to be a new me; someone who is loving, someone who understands her tiniest worries, someone who makes out her mood by the first step in the door.

Sometimes when I watch other couples and their big hooplas for each other, their expensive gifts and lifestyles, I do wonder in my heart how you are so content with me.

You never complain nor do you make me feel that my gifts by comparison are any less.

This is my only worry. In the shining jewelry, homes and cars of others do you feel any less about me?

***

Husband, I do not know why you would have married me, and what you would have been expecting from me.

***

I am glad we agreed to this wedding.

Sure, the early days were a bit awkward. I saw you struggle. My family is not the easiest to live with and I saw that. With my fingers crossed behind my back, I even fearfully asked you if you wanted to go home, if matters were too much for you.

You were a determined girl. Thank God for that. You never gave up on us. Now that determination has found its reward. Your smiling non complaining nature has softened everyone. Even though Mom never shows it, I have heard her boast to her friends about you.

You have gotten used to the ways of my family, maintaining our rituals and traditions. You have come to know that they are just being themselves. They are not like your family but they are also not bad or wrong. They just are who they are.

After five years together, I am sure you agree that we have become the dearest of friends and soulmates.

You are not a heroine and neither am I a hero. There are no catch and falls in our lives though we have our share of eyelocks. Your dupatta never catches anywhere nor does my exercising draw any attention except yours.

About that, if you think I don't know you are hiding behind that pillar watching me, did you at least wonder why I flex my muscles so much?

I know you find me hot. Good taste missus!

Husband, I am not beautiful and I know that.

***

Here you are wrong dear wife. You are one of the most beautiful persons I will ever meet in this lifetime. Your beauty if I measured it by actions, words and love would be immeasurable. I love every inch of you and you know that by now.

Whatever was broken within you has healed with time, love and patience. Time has been the ray of light that has banished the darkness, the insecurities and doubts both within you and me.

For every fall there has been a healing hand that has pulled us up, for every wound a bandaid of understanding.

Now the only thing messy in our life is me, with the wet towels and dirty socks near the bed. You do scold me a lot about it too. Pouting here ;).

***

I might even suffocate you someday and I sincerely hope that I would never see that day.

***

You could not hurt me even if you tried. Your eyes tear even if I cut myself shaving! Always meant to ask you why you find my shaving so fascinating, or is it my towel clad body in the mornings?

***

I might not be able to love you, or any person for that matter, but dear Husband, I could only wish and pray to God that I should at least be able to not hurt you, ever.

Sincerely,
Your wife.

***

I wake up with your I love you and I go to bed saying the same to you. As long as I have you in my life, I will be the happiest person on earth.

Happily the only man in your life,
Your Jaan.

***

Quickly he sent a text to his junior, "Postpone meeting for a few hours, I will be late". Sliding in between the covers to put his hand on the still tiny baby bump of his wife, he smiled in contentment.

Sure Mom will give a lecture again on getting up late and not being responsible but he was old enough to grin and bear it.

She wriggled in his hold, turning to face him and ask sleepily, "Aap? Itni jaldi uth gaye? Kyun?"

"Just answering a letter", he said proffering the piece of paper to her watching her puzzled face smile as she read his replies. His answers must have pleased her because she dimpled him a smile.

"I love you".

***

Somewhere out there a girl read his letter today with her fingers crossed.

It is said that dreams come true. I will modify it a bit.

Make your dreams come true because you only live once; your life is yours to live as you see fit.

Oh so beautiful
Loved t OS
& t reply!!!

Res for Both 😉

*Whistles loudly* 😆
Loved both the letters 👏
What a piece of writing Shikha... Missed u and ur writings ! 😳
You perfectly showed the insecurities of a girl bfr marriage !
And bcs she couldnt say those words to anyone, She wrote a letter.. A letter to future husband from an ordinary girl 😊
Aur sone pe suhaga Avi's reply of that letter to His perfect extra-ordinary wife 😉 😃
Big Round of Applause for both of You 👏
Awesome Jugalbandi 😉

Love both the letters. One full of self doubts and the other with answers to them. One of insecurities and the other giving assurance. One with fear for the future and the other with promise for the future.

As much as I loved reading the OS I am loving reading the replies all the young women on the forum have posted.