From The Diary Of A Hopeless Romantic

By Nahid Fatima

Hello guys, I am a hopeless romantic. At least I love to believe so. I love love. At the age, when kids learned rhymes, I was well versed with Hindi songs(and still managed to top my class).

I believed life is a fairytale and some day I will meet my prince charming who will sweep me off my feet. I loved to imagine scenarios thinking how I will meet him and how our love story will proceed. Sometimes it would be a love hate relationship, other times it would be love at first sight. Every day I had a new love story in my mind and I believed that love will change my life.

And one day I finally fell in love with someone and it did change my life but unfortunately for the worst. He was a walking red flag whom I thought would be my soulmate. He was…..,let's not even talk about him.

He changed the idea of love for me. He burst my bubble and made me realize that life is not a fairytale and prince charming do not exist in real world.

The idea of the man I wanted for myself is an illusion I guess. So there came a period in my life when I became indifferent to love. I started hating romantic movies and novels.The idea of relationships didn't excite me anymore.

Gradually as time passed I healed and moved on. My original self began to overpower me again. The thought of being in love began to excite me again.I came to the conclusion that one bad experience shouldn't make me hope for the worst.

There are still chivalrous men out there waiting to pull chairs for their loves. I still have a chance of receiving love letters from someone.I still hope to have someone in my life who will look at me with aww in their eyes and a smile on their lips. Someone who will buy me 'gajras' and bring flowers for me

Someone I could dance in the rain with, someone I could go on coffee dates with, someone who would cook for me and someone who will write poems for me. .

I still believe in love and I hope to find my Prince Charming someday!!

By Nahid Fatima