
To You..!!
I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought..! Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.
I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.
Inspite of all these...u still realise what was missing and what kept fading and you so dont want to let it go..!
I have another scenario for you - I'm in love with you. I apologize for the blunt delivery, but as problematic as this fact may be, I'm in love... with YOU. I'm not feeling this because you're leaving, and not because it feels good to feel this way... which, by the way, it does, or did before you went off like that. I can't figure out the mathematics of this, I just know I love you. I can't believe how many times I'm saying it! And I never thought I'd feel this way again, so that's pretty phenomenal. I know my package, perhaps in the light of day, isn't all that wonderful, but I finally know what I want and that, in itself, is a miracle. And what I want is YOU...unconditionally and forever, irrespective of whether u want me or not..!
" I dont care what they say,
i am in love with you,
they try to pul me away,
but they dont know the truth
My heart is crippled by the vein that i keep on closing."
(Leona Lewis with 'bleeding in love')
yours truly
Rashmi..
The most common example of unrequitted love is the love parents have for their children.
ReplyDeleteReally touching write-up...deeply felt and well written
ReplyDeletehey i like d second scenario more..where ur saying it out in the open,brutually honest..dts my kind of stuff, the begining part ermmm..is gud bt d later one is more potent..jst a suggestion..no offence ..i hope u dnt mind, n i beleive you could also look out for this movie called "The Holiday", Kate winslet has something very similar to say !!!!
ReplyDeleteI am also addicted in love, to my parents,siblings,friends and for that one special person.
ReplyDeleteThis is nice Rashmi. I liked the last line very much. 'I want u...,' and yes love is unconditional to everyone.
@ everybody...
ReplyDeletethank u for reading it thru..
@ luina..
dis is every much from the movie "holiday"...
i could so relate the movie...dis write might not be original..but this is somthing i know i can deeply relate to..
i am so Kate Winslet..in that movie..!
and this letter was written like two years back..on my eighteenth birthday..!
but this is a dead letter i couldnt even give it to the person it was meant to be given..
the compiled lines ..
but i just didnt bother with mentioning the source..!*wink wink*