Tu Hi Yaar Mera

Prelude

“Love is not something where we have hits and trials. It’s not a game. We live once. We fall in love once and that love forever holds a piece of ourselves that no one else can have. A piece that is as pure as an innocent child’s heart, a piece that holds the belief that love can last forever.

But once lost, the cut left by that love is the deepest. The scar left behind irrecoverable. It’s sad not to love, but not being able to love… miserable. And no matter what nothing can repair for that loss. Love is not a fairy tale. It’s not necessary for it to have a happy ending. It’s just love… with memories that no one can steal, but afflictions that no one can heal.

I was doing just fine, trying my best to stay alive. All I ever wanted was to live peacefully with my daughter. But then she came, holding the power that I never thought anyone else could hold… and then, changed it all.

I can never fall in love with her. I know that for sure. I respect her for all that she has done for my family. She’s one of the best persons I have ever met in my life, but… love?!? That’s something I’ll never be able to give her. My heart already belongs to someone else, longs for someone else.

Does that make me selfish? Uncompassionate? Or something that’s even worse? I don’t know but this heaviness in my heart never subsides.”

~ Sanskaar

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“Love is zeal, love is compassion.
Unsaid words, pent-up passion.

We fall in love by chance and one needs courage to take that chance. Life is about having faith in our feelings and having courage to take that chance one more time. Happiness once lost can be found again. Cruel, but true, life never stops for anyone. It goes on, no matter whether you choose to stay chained up by the demons of your past, or you choose to embrace what has happened, take a chance and move on towards the unknown.

Change is inevitable but it always reminds us… It’s all worth it. Something better always awaits us.

Falling in love with him was the best thing that had ever happened to me. He walked into my life and helped me grow into who I was meant to be. He got it right where everyone else got it wrong. Even before I could realize, he became my other half… the song that the beats of my heart had always longed for.”

~ Swara

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Five minutes!

Just five mere minutes was all it took for Sanskaar to lose all his sanity. Everything, that he ever held dear to him, seemed like hanging off a thin rope, about to break any next moment. No power in this world could have prepared him for what he had heard.

“Dr. Maheshwari, please report immediately to the emergency ward. It’s regarding your wife”, the receptionist of his hospital had informed him before every bit of sanity escaped him and he ran out of his office even without giving it a thought.

Aarti… His Aarti. That was all he could think of as his feet mindlessly carried him towards the emergency ward and the moment he reached there, he saw his mother sitting motionlessly on the bench with his father holding her shoulder. ‘In assurance, most possibly’, he thought.

“Maa. Papa. What’s wrong? Why are you guys at the emergency ward instead of maternity?”, he enquired as soon as he reached his parents. “It’s about Aarti’s regular checkup, right?”, he asked on not getting any response from his father who looked so pale by now as if every ounce of blood had been sucked out of his body. One look at his parents and it wasn’t very difficult for Sanskaar to realize that something was wrong. Terribly wrong.