To Love & Forever!

“Growing old together is never an option, it’s the only way to know the magic of LOVE!”

It was one of those summer days when the sun was shining hot and the breeze would kiss every inch of your face when you walk. While strolling down the streets of some not-so-familiar place, I saw him. He was not handsome, the wrinkles on his face had stories to say, the tremble in his hands told they knew the world, the cracks at the ends of his eyes were screaming how much of life he had seen; but those eyes, the way they looked at her, mesmerizing! She was not beautiful, but for him, she was probably the only beauty ever seen. She had aged too but her hands held his with such loving warmth, firmness and belief, that even when they tremble, they are the only savior for her… Old age love! It was beyond that, it was beyond the reasons, it was beyond just love, it was something magical. It was about the challenges and the hardships that they went through, but decided to remain in love forever; it was about the vows that you make to each other, not at the aisle, not the spoken, but the unspoken vows of not letting the beauty of what you have fade away. The promise of living the ‘forever’ and not just saying it! The faith after years when you hold their hand, you know they wouldn't let you fall. The hope that even when you fight, crib and are outrageously defied, they will take you back. The assurance that every tear that falls down would be compensated by the laughter they fill in your life. The certainty that tomorrow if you’re not there, a part of them would go missing forever. And so you want to live, not just for being with them, but because they will be lost without you. Love was never about finding yourself; it was about losing yourself into them, and let them bring the best in you.

Perhaps, this is what we’re always wanting when we say LOVE! Love was never just about making love in bed, because that day I realized, you make love even when you hold hands. It is about that one look in their eyes that defines you are magic for them, and nobody else but you can bring out that feeling. You crave for this love, because you know it will be a once in a lifetime love. Because there will be all kinds of love in this life, but never the same love twice! I was small then, and though it should’ve been a complicated thing for me to understand, I rather found it simple, that all you had to do to be in love was to keep loving, unconditionally, and undauntedly. I had thought if I could have even a tiny piece of that love story, life would be wonderful. And suddenly, one day, strolling in the memory lane, I found him! And that day, I vowed to myself, to love him, and only him, in ways that might not be always the right thing, but in ways that would mean his happiness. That nothing would change this love, no time, no distance, no person, nothing! So there he was, among the myriad of crowd, but shining bright, telling me that we were meant to be. He wasn't a new face, he was right there, had always been there. He was my magic!