Planning for a walk today? Saved money for a gift,
for your boyfriend?
Going with your fiancé for the latest movie that
released? Can’t decide how to make this day very special for your spouse?
Well, when the
whole world is celebrating love, let us, for a moment, bend our thoughts on
some lesser talked upon ways of love, which are not much celebrated, and yet
are much strongly tied with bandages of attachment.
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The little girl, who is crying at the
funeral of his grand mom, perhaps realizes now, what bond she had with the
silver-haired woman. She can still feel the moist imprints of her lips on her
forehead.
·
The man in his late 40s, miserably stuck
in the gears of life, is right now, frantically searching that shirt, whose
pocket retained the last tram ride’s ticket that he took with his college’s best
mate.
·
The old man wakes up every day, to the
first rays of the morning sun, to touch his dead wife’s spectacles, carefully
placed beside his pillow.
·
Those little puppy eyes, that the
working woman looks up to, every time she gets back home. What she does not
know, is that, all day the little puppy sits beside the main door with a scarf
of hers, waiting for her to return.
·
Inside the confines of the old age home,
the old mother still treasures the tiny wool socks that she made for her son,
when he could barely walk.
·
The soldier, risking his life in front
of gun barrels every other day, for the sake of his country, finds security in
the dull, tattered ‘rakhi’ that his sister sent him last year.
·
The husband went missing in an aeroplane
crash ten years back. The wrinkled hands of the old lady, still puts vermillion
on her forehead, in belief of his return.
·
The little boy, still living with the
illusion, that dead people become stars, talk to the sky every night, wishing
someday his father would reply back.
We see
uncountable instances of such unsaid love around the planet. The planet that
experiences blasts in Gaza, and terrorist attacks on Charlie hebdo, also
experiences a beggar sharing his worn out blanket with a street dog. Love does
exist.
Perhaps,
the beauty of this unconditional love lies in the fact that, they don’t need a
day to be celebrated, for they are felt every day, in every moment of our
lives.
So, today, run to your parents and
give them a surprise hug, take a walk down the road with your pet, help your
grand mom with her braid, and spend the afternoon with your grand dad.
For,
these ways of love sees no fall. They are always there, caressing you with good
vibes and hope, throughout your life.
