When I knew I were in Love

 

You were together for so long when and how exactly, did you know you were in love with him?

 

One fine day, when everything seemed normal, the birds chirped early morning in their usual squeaky voices, the sun rose at the usual time, me and baba had the morning tea together which my lovely aai prepared for us. I took out my usual dress to wear for work that day. In the morning we used to meet at the Worli bus stand, as we used to commute to our workplaces together.

In that rather normal day, when I looked at him coming from the other side of the road, things changed spectacularly inside of me, he looked his usual but my heart just stopped beating for a brief period of time, the world slowed down, I was sweating much more than the usual, even growing reasonably nervous around him.

There was an absolute rush of emotions, and I hardly knew how to handle them all, but in my own way, I was trying to soak it all in, I didn’t know if I was getting any success in doing so, in those moments I felt like being part of something bigger, something deeper, something more intimate, something divine and intangible.

 

After a few moments of him gazing at me with a warm smile, offering me his handkerchief he said, “You’re sweating a lot today, maybe we should take a cab to work today” I could just nod in approval for words were few in those moments. It was a good proposal indeed, I didn’t want to spend those precious moments surrounded by strangers at a fair distance from him in an overflowing BMC bus, I would much rather be with him, sitting right beside in an Uber Go, trying to take it all in.

I wiped my face with the handkerchief, but I wouldn’t let go of it, I kept it in my pocket and that was my way of trying to freeze those moments, to not let them go, in those moments everything made sense and, yet nothing did, and that’s ladies and gentlemen how I knew I were in love.

The End