Disappointment awaits the one whose idea of romance is acquired by extensive reading of 19th Century Classics along with Nora Roberts, Nicolas Sparks, Danielle Steel, Sandra Brown and every book ever published by Mills & Boons and not to forget, watching innumerable rom-coms.
Disappointment awaits people like me.
I also have my sun sign to blame. Pisces is supposed to be the most dreamy and romantic sign of all. For people like me, love is not just a word or a feeling, it is the basic need, only second to Oxygen. We feel things so deeply and give in whatever it takes to make things work between us and the people we love. We also expect them to reciprocate feeling and the intensity with which we feel about them. We share even the most insignificant details with them. We wait for our happy endings, our forevers and our Prince Charmings, that often leave us with scars that take everything we ever had, to heal. Heartbreaks devastate us. They take away from us the ability to feel and to love again. They make us vulnerable, insecure, sleepless and lifeless.
505 days have passed and what if I say I still would relive our magic even after knowing this is how it is going to end?

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Yet another Diwali passed and I still am miserably failing to move on from what happened on a Diwali night three years ago. 3rd November. How can I ever forget the date or that night when a casual flirting session turned into something so serious that was a part of us for two whole years! This Diwali, we were with different people, claiming to feel the same way about them they way we felt about each other, or maybe more. But, are we happy? If you were, why would you call me the other night to tell me that you missed me and that you wish that everything was the same as that Diwali night that changed our fate? And if I were, why would I know the exact feeling you were talking about?
Sometimes, I don't get it. Is life complicated or do we complicate things for ourselves?

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You are not alone if you have a good book to keep you company

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"When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them"

-Rumi

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He didn't spoil me with flowers and chocolates. He spoilt me with his favourite books.

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Well, sleepless nights have become a part of the routine. Another night spent staring at the ceiling with an unexplained restlessness that is probably the mix of nostalgia, hurt and regret. Suddenly my eyes darted towards the window and the black sky had started to get painted in bright morning colours, as though giving me hope that there will come a time when all of this pain will be gone and life will become beautiful again. A need to feel happy suddenly rose within me. Maybe Mother Nature has its own way to teach us the way of life. Maybe Mother Nature has her own surprises.

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You will never forget the first time your parents said that they are proud of the person you are growing up to become. There is a sense of satisfaction and a certain sense of victory in seeing them happy. The content voice and the shine in their eyes are accomplishments that are undoubtedly, the best.

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When you want to conquer the world but cannot even get yourself to finish the syllabus for next day's exam!

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If only I had known growing up had more cons than pros, I wouldn't have wasted all the years of my childhood trying to act all grown up!

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She had only read about heavy and sinking hearts in the Mills & Boons she grew up reading, but she could feel her own heart get heavy and sink that night when he confessed that he had been cheating on her.

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