Marriage : A Match Made in Heaven.
He’d heard this phrase a thousand time in his 25 years of life. He had seen his Bhaiya and Bhabhi living a very serene life together. Though full of ups and downs, they would always be each other’s biggest support. He had seen his mother miss his father and known through her tales and his memories of him that they had their share of a beautiful story too. And yet when he was married, it didn’t exactly feel any of these.
Camaraderie : mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.
He definitely had friends that he rarely could spend time with, owing to the responsibilities that he’d taken on his young shoulders quite early in his life. And then there was this certain chipkali that had always pestered him for the longest time he could remember. But what they shared was a grey zone that he could not clearly demarcate himself either. All in his life of 25 years, when suddenly things took a surprisingly strange turn with his marriage. No, their marriage.
Passion : the fire that consumes you and yet keeps you alive.
The only thing that he could associate with this emotion was his store. He knew for sure that it will be the only thing in his life that would make him feel this way. The one occupying his thoughts day and night, the time spent together always cherished.
Love : A mirage and nothing more.
He’d chanted this mantra for a lifetime to ensure that his heart would be safe. That he would never ever give anyone a chance to damage this vital organ whose only job in the first place was to pump blood and not feelings.
But life is all about changes and so did his definitions.
Marriages are not made in heaven, they are made in convenience. Then this damn love thing came and screwed it all up. When he married his mami ki behan ki beti, he thought that their equation will never change given the history they had. But slowly and steadily, the chipkali that she was, she had broken the rock solid walls around his heart and made her way inside.
Their journey wasn’t an easy one. He had taken his own painful time to understand this basic truth that the skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home ~ “Into a new life”.
And now he very well knew how it felt to have someone you can share every aspect of your life with zero inhibitions. How you could see someone all the day and yet miss them when they are gone. The sweet pleasure that coursed through the body when it shared moments of love with the one it loved with both heart and soul, body and mind.
As he saw the woman he loved, running through the entire house contributing in every way she could to each of his family members and later when she would accompany him to the store and help him, fulfilling both her long cherished dreams, he couldn’t ask for more. Thanking Bholenath for sending this woman in his life and for teaching him that change is life, for all his definitions that he thought to be static were modified, credits Raavi Shiva Pandya
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