The Spark...

We are growing. Growing by the day, growing stronger. What was a year ago has now become few years ago. Our togetherness, its age is also growing stronger. What was a year old is now few years old. Soon, we will be hitting a decade since we acquainted each other. OMG! A decade? Seriously? So much yet so little, so long yet so near, so far yet so dear. Bubbles \(^_^)/

Reminds me of that day when you filled my heart so much so that I was so excited and felt so happy. I had to visit college that day. But, we were in our usual chat session. It dates back to early 2010. We had a mention about my visit to the college that was nearer to your place and you were busy pulling my legs as usual. At last, by Noon I had started. 

I was on the city's bypass and was riding the black bird and this song was playing. I remember you saying how crazy you were about the song and the hero of the movie. While I was on a sweeping curve, the song was as its peak or maybe I was at the peak of craziness. I was so excited about reliving our talk that I hit the triple digit speed mark without even realising it. It felt like riding so fast as if it was a ride to see you right away.

But, seeing you was not even in the list that day. We were so new to each other, so early in our days of togetherness. Well, we did not even have this whole idea of Love between each other. But, today as I look back, I feel that although certain things do not need to necessarily dawn upon each other's minds or hearts, the path created for us actually has footprints of ourselves, etched far back in time than we ever started noticing it. 

I had a visual that day while riding. I had a visual of meeting everyone at home, meeting you, sharing jackfruits from the ECR that I had gotten the previous day. And, as the visual kept developing and as the song set the tune, I was like the new born bird leaving its nest and experiencing first flight. The 20Kms long journey never mattered that day. 

Back then, I used to stay quiet about all these feelings towards you and just waited for time to answer or wait for time to let you grow up fully. It did happen. We did not fall apart. We had many such chat sessions, I travelled through the bypass many times since then, we have had so many moments after that day, yet, that day's journey felt like a new beginning, our beginning. Ever since that day, my eyes have never rested from looking for you, and yes, when I got the chance to meet you first back in 2013, I did propose to you. Oh, how much I waited for conveying that to you, only I know of. When you know that I cannot even hold a surprise for more than few minutes and end up breaking it open before hand, imagine me roaming so restless for four long years and when I got the chance to meet you, yes, I proposed so fast.

As I set the clock backwards in my mind, I could reason out something you had told me recently. You said, no one proposes to a person upon meeting them for the first time. Well, I met you long before we actually met in person. To me, you are the one ever since that day on the bypass which I feel was the sparking moment of Love towards you. I took time, enough time to squeeze everything possible I could think of before proposing to you. It was more than a 4 year long wait and 4 year long decision making process. If we go by love being an emotion, it started back in 2009. If we go by love being a decision, it goes back to 2013. With the former weighing more than the latter, we will be hitting a decade in a little over a year's time irrespective of when it actually dawned upon us. Hey Bubbles \(^_^)/, I take this moment to dedicate that very song to you back from 2009. "Hasili fisili" from Aadhavan.-rPhoenix