Our Love Story

She came to kitchen to get a glass of water. It was for the first time I saw her. I was constantly looking at her as she filled her glass. I don't know why but something in her attracted me. She was the one I had always been looking for. The girl of my dreams. Her cheeks, her small but cute nose, her smile, there was something really special about it all. Like someone I had always knew, someone I had promised to meet. She left after a minute but those 60 seconds changed my life. I came back to my seat still thinking about her. I then used to follow her everyday whenever she went to kitchen just to have her glimpse, just to see her smile. Her voice was so soft that one could really fall asleep listening to it. She was my angel with a voice of a nightingale.

If anyone scared me, it was him. I remember the first time I saw him. Our boss asked for the person who had performed best and his boss called out his name. It was the same guy who had been staring at me rather angrily for the last hour or so. The meeting was boring and I was sleepy. I had nothing better to do but to look here and there. It was then that my eyes fell on him. Our eyes met for a brief moment and he quickly shifted his glance. I did not look at him for the rest of the time I was there. I avoided him even afterwards. Changed my route, turned my face, sometimes left the place where he was. He scared me. Till one day, he was sitting next to me, explaining something I couldn't get. I instantly felt a connection. Something pulled me towards him. He smiled. His smile was the best thing about him. His eyes were softer than what they had been first time I saw him.

I finally decided to talk to her and approached her; found her sweet and innocent. I saw some sketches she had drawn and by looking at those sketches I instantly knew that the girl who was always smiling was not really happy from the inside. I wanted to know about her life and with each passing day we got closer. I started caring for her and may be that's how I won her trust. We became very good friends but for me she was always more than that.

He always used to sit across from me. It was an effort to keep myself from looking at him because I did not want him to sense my attraction towards him. I could always tell he was gaping at me. I wanted him to talk to me, but never made an advance. I was still scared.

I remember the day when she called me after having some conflict at home and we talked the whole night. She was just like a small baby looking for a place to hide and felt protected with me. This was just the start of our relationship that was now blooming beautifully. I told her that I love her. She hesitated in the beginning but finally gave in. 

He came through as a down to earth person. All my illusions about him turned out to be illusions after all. But the way he cared for me freaked me out. I did not like anybody interfering so much in my life. No one bothered if I had eaten properly or if I took my medicines on time. I wanted all that to stop. I had told my heart i had loved all I could and had no intention for another hear break. But I fell in love with him...

I don't know what will happen in the near future, she might probably leave but I do know one thing that there is no one in this world who can love her more than me. We might not be able to live with each other but we will always live in each other’s heart, we will always be in each other’s heart.

... I do not know whether I will get her in this life or not but today I want to propose to her... Honey, I love you and will always love you the same way whatever happens, wherever we may be. Love, will you marry me in the eternal life after death?

We may have no "till death do us apart"... I will wait for you. Don't be long.

Save the Innocence!!

A few days back I went out for ice-cream with my family. But to my disappointment, I couldn’t enjoy it. A small child hardly 5 or 6 years old came to my father’s side of the window. He was very cute, with pink cheeks, hair made up just right; not to mention his clothes were nice and clean. I was just wondering what he was doing there when to my horror, he lifted his hand. He had a handful of pencils; he was selling them. In the third world that we live in, child labor is something very common. We see it every day around us, we have partially become numb to it. But this child here, he was so darn cute, his eyes so bright, his smile so innocent… those pink cheeks, and the way he held out those few pencils to my father, it really broke my heart. I could not have imagined a neat kid like him could be out selling stuff near midnight. I could not help but shed tears. I asked my father to give him some money. You know what the child did? He refused to take the money for nothing; he wanted to exchange them for pencils only. We bought some, and he went away happily. I felt a little happy about the way this little child had known the ethical difference between earning his living or begging for it. Obviously he learnt this from his parents who obviously, then, have morals. God knows in what terrible condition they might be in that forced them to send their beloved child out like this. Simply tragic.

Among other things that I hate being in a third world country is seeing our children withering away like that. What with all the over population, high illiteracy rate, unemployment; and on top of that, the new financial crisis the world is facing now, the poor being its first victims. Why can’t the government do something about these innocent babies at least!! Frustration and anger rises in me when I see their helpless eyes… They did not deserve a life so miserable in any case!

Employing children as waiters, servants, mechanics, making them do everything that their tender hands are not yet ready to do; they are forced to grow up, forced to forget their chance on a happy carefree childhood, while others like them get education, are cared for and provided for. But these poor children learn the harsh realities of life before their young minds can even understand them; and earning the very hard way those grown-ups do. These children are treated brutally in many cases, including sexual abusing and harassing. When their soft, tiny, unskilled hands cannot learn a particular skill, they are mistreated, beaten up, cursed… And they grow up in fear.

It’s sad on the part of humanity how we choose to spend a fortune on our own luxuries and life style. We always have to have the latest iPod, the latest laptop, the Nokia model that’s just about to hit the market and make it big time. For what, guys?? Yes I completely understand it can be that one wants to be up to date and all, one must be style conscious. Even I spend like that, I'm one of you all. But, let’s just put ourselves aside for one moment; think of all the good you can do for anyone who is in need. The money we’re soon going to spend on that new Nokia model can feed so many hungry mouths. And yes, like I said before in one of my posts, a good deed always comes back. If one is wealthy, they can choose to help out a family and maybe do some significant good to it that lasts as well.

The whole idea of this post is to ask you, the readers, to do a little something for these children. There are countless ways in which we can make life a little easier for them if we put our minds and hearts to it. To start with, there are so many related causes available on the Internet that one can join. You can donate money if you can afford it. If not anything, then you can promote this cause by the very special gift of writing power you, my blogger friends, are blessed with. Come on, let’s do something for these little angels. Let us make life seem a little bit easier for them. Trust me, in the end when you’re done, just their mere smiles will be so worth it!

I remember one of Michael Jackson’s ever loved songs…

There comes a time when we heed a certain call

When the world must come together as one

There are people dying

And it’s time to lend a hand to life

The greatest gift of all

We can’t go on pretending day by day

That someone somewhere will soon make a change

We are all part of God's great big family

And the truth, you know, love is all we need

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day

Just you and me

Send them your heart

So they’ll know that someone cares

And their lives will be stronger and free

As God has shown us by turning stones to bread

So we all must lend a helping hand

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day

Just you and me

Enjoy the winter season ahead, and take very good care of yourselves and those around you.

Happy blogging!

Hugs~~

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