If you’d ask me for one word about how Rishi and I felt
with each other, for being together since so many years now, I would say “AZAAD”.
We felt free with each other, without any boundations to entertain each other
all the time.
He’d be sitting in one corner of the
room while I would be in another, with NUSRAT filling the space between our
comfortable silences, where I’d be packing my bags to leave again and he’d be
sitting and browsing through YouTube or busy attending the limitless phone calls.
In between we’d stare at each other, smiling and I’d melt. I’d lose all my
concentration for few seconds, before regaining myself.
Rishi would stare outside the window,
sometimes the mirror and most of the time his mobile phone that usually fills our
surroundings there in Jammu. Whereas, I usually find myself sitting in our
room, catching the birds flying back to their nests, orange sun settling behind
the far looking hills, stray dogs settling themselves in the cozy corners of
the streets and the decreasing number of vehicles on the busy road and
sometimes catching hold of his face and holding his palms or hugging him tight
in a comfy hug. We are use to spending our days with the routines in our respective
places and evening like these when together.
Remembering a day when we saw that
movie together. As he laid down next to me, staring at me and he said,
“If
you ever write about me, think of me as a man who was free in his soul, who
flew with wind, and yet longed for love. A love that could move the world. Write
about me as LOVE.”
And then today, on the eve of his
birthday, I sat down to write about this love that have filled my life with
colours, care, charm, calmness and full of memories to hold on to. And the
first thing that I could write was about love within me because of him.
That is the thing about us. Rishi and
I are always destined to be together, and we knew it since day one, when he was
sitting in the balcony of a calm place somewhere in Jammu and I were standing
near the parking lot of the busy south Delhi market and messaging him, just
after few days I have met him for the first time.
We knew that that our companionship
won’t be easy like a cake walk and yet we went ahead with it. Loving each other
in every moment, for we never knew which moment would have been our last. But we
sailed through all the odds and as we were destined to be together, we are
together, stronger than ever and to be with each other till our last breath on
mother earth.
With each night I spend in Jammu, with
him, feeling his physical presence, smelling his magical fragrance; the morning
comes with a beautiful promise. As I watch the sun rising from behind those
small looking hills and ironically the bigger looking trees and painting them
golden with its rays, and I watch his angel looking face, deep in sleep and
Thank the Almighty for every moment of magic that had and have the power to change my life forever.
I think these are the mornings I fall
in love with him again and again for forever and ever again.
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY LOVE
