First Love and the consequent heart break....

Boring. Yes, boring is the word that best describes her. Boring, not so pretty, really low on self-esteem, introvert to the highest degree. Last year of high school, it was just her books and her friends that mattered in her life. What she would be doing after high school? She always aspired to do engineering like her brother but fate had something else planned out for her and she landed in the city’s most elite college to study the most sought after under graduate course. After studying in an all girls’ school for 13 years, getting into a Co-education college was a drastic change, never having interacted with the opposite gender that much, she found it a little difficult to adjust herself. However, eventually she made friends with three girls and hung around with them and the college time seemed to fly away with all the fun and frolic. 

As life would have it, one day she met this guy whom she found cute. She had never had felt so strongly about anyone before but going telling him how she feels for him was out of question. So, she decided to be his friend, talk to him about himself, his family, and his ambitions as deep down she knew that she wasn't the prettiest girl to be asked out by a guy like him. She was happy with being just friends. They started talking over messages, day and night. Her life revolved around him. From good morning to good night, they used to talk every minute of the day. Days, months passed by and while talking, the boy asked her what kind of guy does she like? She described him, as he was the one she liked for so long. The boy smiled and continued talking. The suddenly he tells her that he wants her to be his and asks her if she’d like to be his girlfriend. She couldn't believe her ears; it was like all she had wished for came true. Her happiness showed in her eyes and this is how her first relationship started, with the guy she secretly dreamed of. Life seemed so beautiful, time passed by but something was still missing. She wasn't completely sure if he was hers ‘cause he still hadn't said those three golden words to him. Almost 5 months had gone by and she started feeling more than liking for him and just couldn't stop herself, so one evening she decided to say it all to him the next day. Writing down how she feels on a piece of paper, she starts practicing, how she is going to say it to him, she is all excited and nervous. That very she gets a message from him saying that he want to tell her something the next day and says good night and goes off to sleep. Clueless about what he would have to say, she messages him good night and get backs to her practice, she doesn't want to fumble when she speaks out her heart to him. She starts getting sleepy but the excitement of tomorrow doesn't let her sleep. 

The next day she wakes up early and messages him “Good Morning”. She gathers all her courage and is about to say what she had been practice the entire evening the previous day, but gets nervous and decides against it. She changes the topic and asks him what he had wanted to tell her the previous evening, he is reluctant but she insists and she can’t believe what she just read, her happiness is boundless, it’s like she is still asleep. After 5 months of dating. He finally said those words to her which she had wanted to say to him for quite some time. Suddenly everything seemed so beautiful, she was the happiest girl ever, she was in LOVE and the one she loved was also in love with her. Now it was not just “I miss you” she could now say “I love you” to him and he was just hers. He did everything to make her feel special and loved. She was his world and he, hers. Days, weeks, months passed by and she never felt better, she started imagining about little joys she’d share with him when they’d be together, the things they’d talk about. He made her feel so loved and she was the happiest girl, however, as all good things come to an end so did her fairy-tale love story. 

Suddenly, nothing seemed right and things stopped working, he wanted to take a “break” and her world came crashing down. The person around whom her life revolved for almost two years was no longer hers. She did everything to pursue him but she failed; now she had to start her life all over again, without him. It was life she had no idea what to do with her life anymore. But no matter what hardships come into one’s life, one has to keep moving forward because life goes on no matter what. And this is what she did, took her few months and lots of tearful nights but she finally did and the thing that helped her through was this “Hello” message she received over this social networking website she used to visit frequently…

Freedom of Love? not really

Till Faith Do Us Apart...

You can't really forget the one you loved truly. things so happen that  you make yourself believe that it wasn't love but deep down in your heart you know that it really was. It's a shame that inter-religion relationships and marriages are still a taboo in this country.The religion of the person decides if you can be with that person or not, if he/she is suitable for you. But the heart doesn't know religion, color or country, it only knows love. And love is something you can't have control over, you like someone, you fall in love with them and want to be with them, that's it. But the society and people constantly remind you that that is not the person for you because they are from a different religion, things will never work out because you two are from different backgrounds, and your family, culture are all different.
Why is religion such a big thing here? We all claim to have progressed a lot since Independence but sadly it's only financially, because socially we are still orthodox in our views. Even now, whatever we do is governed by the thought of "what will the society say?" and not by how we feel about it, is it the right thing for us, will it make us happy? we are so affected by what other people will think that we forget to think about our own happiness.
We tend to ape the Western Culture so much, be it about their fashion, music, politics or movies. Everybody wants o learn English 'cause it makes you look educated, laws are being passed in issues relating to "live-in" relationships, then why can't we be as liberal minded as them when it comes to inter-religion marriages? 
It's not just about other people, we,ourselves also tend to have such views when we hear about someone else dating or marrying out of their religion. Such kind of attitude is deep-rooted in our mind and no matter how educated or progressed we claim ourselves to be, religion is one thing we would never go against 'cause we don't want to anger the "supreme power". 
A country is fully developed not only when it achieves a high level of GDP or standard of living but also when it's society progresses. when two people who love each other are not separated or killed because they belong to different castes or religions. The day we are able to surpass such thinking, that day we will be truly developed.

Amchi Mumbai

Away from the usual...

Finally 2013 arrived and the World did not come to and end as the Mayans had predicted. Well, I was the happiest that we surpassed the supposed doomsday because I was eagerly waiting for January 2013 when I would fly to Mumbai and stay there all by myself for 1 whole month!!! 
So at last the wait ended and I landed in Mumbai on 4th January 2013. I knew that the coming 30 days would for sure be full of fun and excitement and that's how they turned out to be. Got to see so many places, almost the entire city of Mumbai. Interacted with a lot of my counterparts from across India and found some good friends in them. 
These 30 days away from home for the very first time taught me a lot and brought many "firsts" with them. Like the first time I was away from home, first time I flew in an airplane, first time i spiked my orange juice hehe and first time I had chocolates couriered to me :D
This experience was like my first step into the actual World, out of the protective shell of my family, all by myself. And I am glad that I got to experience it. However, there was a time during these 30 days that made me homesick but that was just momentarily but it made me realize the value of family that apparently I took/take for granted. 
On the whole, I definitely didn't want to leave from there because of the fun I had but the fact was that the good time did end and now I am back to Delhi, back home, back to work. However, I hope that I get to make a trip out of Delhi again and that too soon, all by myself :)

...and finally it begins! :)

1st page of my tale...

Well. finally after putting it off for so many months I've finally decided to start blogging. I am generally going to post about the stuff that make me get to thinking and I can't contain my thoughts about them in my head anymore, lol :) . I've always believed that, for me writing is the best way to express myself rather that talking about it to someone who may or may not be interested. I never want to be a pile on on anyone. So, here I am, blogging, to express my thoughts! :D . Watch out for this space for more posts. Sometimes, I might post more than once a day and other times fall silent to days all together. But, but..don't think that I'll disappear, I'm going to try and keep it regular!
And keeping up to my blog name, I have the pic of my favorite food up!