By Pranjal Babel
A golden eve and a remembering incidence occurred when I was travelling to Maharashtra to my cousins’ place. The journey began and it was the very first time for me to make my journey all alone. I was pretty excited as I am a huge fan of lord ganesha whom I call “GANNU BAPPA” and I was about to be there on his land soon with a bowl of Confidence; of course because my father wanted. Ya! That wasn’t gonna be my first visit to the place but that journey was commendable. It was the time when I had successfully uttered my very important exams and it was now the time to explore myself , my potential, my desires, my goods, majorly my bads and many more. Dad came to drop me to the station and he Kept my luggage and baggage to my place and was scared and baffled even more than me as every Indian father. He was making me rewind all the rules and regulations which I guess he told me more than 100 times till date, following
the same he stated ,don’t open the window to peep outside and I was getting the instinct that he is damn nervous as I was in an A.C coach where none of the window could be opened but I didn’t countered him cause I was pretty competent to catch the heart full of warmth beating faster therein. Then whistle blew and dad unwillingly left me alone with his charming grin and I said, dad chill! Let me handle this time? He bid farewell and the journey commenced. I was a li'l emotional for parting ways from my dad and bidding farewell; proven a bit tougher than ever thought left me sobbing but I settled down myself and led off to read a beautiful book which I was willing to ,so long but exams didn't permit me ever earlier. I was lost in the book and many stations passed and soon my cell ranged that took me out into the real world . It was dad asking me if I am taking good care of myself etc. This technology is wonder ; I was like, dad I have reached this station right now and he was, yes I know. I had turned your phone's live location so that I can check it out any time. I said , hm! OK , by .Then as the call ended another call , it was mom's this time , and the same questions and answers . I restarted diving into the book and train stopped at some station and there came my new but known travel companion , I guess approx after a four hour long journey and me being an introvert didn't looked at him even . I kept my sights into my lovely pages only and then my pages turning grabbed his attention there at me and I became a bit un comfy but ..,...
He was scandalized and yelled out my name in surprise , you here ! Oh !you ? He said ," Nice to see you after a long time ". And same were my words too . He wasn't any stranger but my acknowledged one ;my batch mate an year back . After conversing for a great time we got to know that we both were destined towards the same destination and that alone for the fisrts. After that we had a lovely train dinner together and lots of chit chat and then packed up all the food stuffs back and were knowing each other at more better parts now .He was also there after the same examination and for the same reason so ya ! We thought to enjoy together ahead and both had excitement at another level . Further moving on, he got me acknowledged about something which resulted for me like slipping on the ground.
That happened because he held my hands in his and preceded that please don't judge me actually..Um...I...um..that...I got irritated and said, please speak up faster and snatched my palms back to me. He once stared at the surroundings and found that we were alone in our compartment as many of the passengers left in Surat so ya, we were alone not properly but sort of. It had been an awkward silence therein and I being baffled asked him what?
He held back my palms and started staring towards the base of the compartment as if he did something which he must not have done and now wanna confess and I being a good friend made him well-to-do and he proceeded " I love you from the core of my heart " and I have lost you once because I was waiting all the exams and everything related to our careers to be fixed and now as it is firm enough I felt an urge to vomit everything I had in. When everything shifted to online I shunned the hopes of getting in touch with you ever as we both had been introverts and never talked to each other but I guess it's a sign of universe that we both are here together , look I know you would be feeling so weird that what is he doing and all ? But trust me I just wanted to tell you everything but am not forcing you anyhow to be drained in the same . It is perfectly your choice to be with me or not but I would like to hold your hand forever , would like to see your smile ever and ......so on. Then , were my eyes all teary and lost , my head fully frozen as frost . I was like shattered and looking me sobbing , his beautiful eyes began flowing , I looked at his face and got that instinct that yes ! A man who can weep for me , who can feel my pain without any strain, for whom my choices matters, and keeps my career at the priority as I do, is successful enough to be adored by my family members is perfect for being my life forever . Henceforth, I replied him positively and he was on cloud nine , hugged me tightly and his warmth , I can still feel it. Then we decided that as soon as we end up our tour we will be sharing our decisions with our parents. All night we were awaken talking to each other and getting to know ourselves more closer. Then as we reached our destination , we went to Gannu bappa and parted our ways to our relative's place . Then after a seven days long vacation , it was time to be back and again with my same travel companion , I successfully landed and was picked up by dad and he had been picked up by his brother , by the we were from the same town , earlier he came four hours later because he missed the train at the station of our town. Hm ! We endeavored to convince our parents and everything was going great , our families met each other and they were satisfied with everything. But there comes the twist and turn , and my grandpa enters in the scene and he came to know that the guy is a government servant ;he doesn't own any business and then what not happened , it was at all border as my grandpa can't be ever left unheard .He clearly said me to forget him and then a it was the time of a miracle , there comes my grandma , then what , grandma can never be left unheard by him and within few seconds , it was yes! Everyone was shocked but yes wives are wives , no doubt at all. I hugged Dadu and Dadi and the aura turned cheerful. Then later dadu called me in his room and said me come let's sit here in the balcony and get basked , I arranged two chairs for two of us and dadu said my li'l fairy you might be thinking that dadu being himself a government servant denied for your prince charming ,but it was not the reason my princess, genuinely if I say it is my love 'cause of which I am not competent to send my li'l fairy far away. And your prince charming being posted away from our place will take my princess too , and his eyes teary and speech unclear and shattering .... I wanted you to be there near me , in this city only but ....grandma enters in balcony and says u do create a lot of drama , please my doll ,don't catch up with him , you do deserve the best and this is the best for you as I have seen a sense of respect and love in the eyes of you both which is extremely efficient and important to make any relationship successful and cheering .....be practical my doll .....god bless you . And today we are together not emotionally only but officially too. Later, after three years, we both had been posted to our own city only where my grandpa wanted us to be. No one was happier than our family members my in-laws and his in-laws too. "FAMILY AND IT'S HAPPINESS MEANS A LOT ". They utter our lives and their love always results in our success and beauty.
By Pranjal Babel