The Fairy Tales Do Exist 💖- unpublished diary page of a home maker 🥰

The Fairy tales do exist💖

For two days I was working round the clock for the Holi festivities still had no sign of fatigue and irritation. My dear son was the first one to notice it and asked sheepishly about the reason behind it. I instantly exclaimed “you know, tomorrow I will be meeting my classmate of class 10 after thirty-six years. Isn’t it wonderful?” 

“ Oh !! that’s great but you don’t look more than thirty-six years old, Maa.”

Slyly he responded. Aghast I was, with the statement and my suspicious mind started overanalyzing the genuinity of the reaction but it instantly brought a smile on my face. Later his intentions made crystal clear by the barter he proposed to bargain😁.

Text Messaging certainly acts as a veil when it comes to hiding emotions. It did happen as we ( me and my dear friend), were conversing by text but just a voice call made in haste, brought back the old memories of our school days as if we had fallen in the past sitting on a time machine. 

Sharp at 7 pm she arrived with her better half and we were reunited almost after three and a half decades. Unable to hide my bubbling emotions, we hugged each other. Wanted to freeze the blissful moment, it was the warmest hug in a long long time. 

I was absolutely astonished by her unchanged personality which has achieved a lot in the past 36 years apart from becoming a doting mother and a perfect homemaker. After exchanging the pleasantries my maturity didn’t deter me to ask about her marriage, with a handsome Punjabi boy, Since this proud Rajputani was not easy to be tamed. 

“ You know dear, it’s all destiny.” With a sigh, she started narrating the unscripted real-life Karan Johar movie. 

As soon as she landed in the Cambridge University of United Kingdom for perusing her masters on scholarship, welcomed by her two seniors of Wolfson College, as a tradition they were appointed for a week to guide the new student and get her acclimatized to the new place and environment. 

During the evening party hosted by the seniors, part of Hiroshima bombshell was saved and landed on her head, before she could muster the courage to break the ice for informal chatting, then a stranger called her name and rudely enquired about her whereabouts. She has to clear the commotion which she was not even aware of. Trying to stop tears rolling down the cheeks she cried bitterly in private, as reality struck that she is actually thousands of miles away from her homeland and had to learn to live in this alien country. 

“I am so sorry, can you pardon me for my behavior last night. It was the misunderstanding, not my fault and not even yours either.” These couple of sentences in Hindi did act as a balm on the otherwise homesick soul. Till 3 am they walked on the path unknown to lay the foundation for their love nest. Cambridge must be witness to many love stories but this one was unique in every sense. She clung like a leech to him and he couldn’t gather enough courage to ask her to go back to her room. Initially, they apologized to each other and ended up talking for many hours and learning a lot about each other. Finally, he persuaded her to catch up some sleep to get over with the jet leg, they mutually agreed to meet again tomorrow. 

The next day, It took him just a minute to decide that the girl sitting next to him in his room, to whom he barely been introduced, 36 hours ago, is the one to spend a lifetime. Maybe the twinkling eyes did the magic. This was more of a love at first fight💕. 

Totally enamored by the direct proposal, but she told him about another good friend of hers waiting in India. Although she had no commitment to him they were exchanging letters regularly. So hardly intimidated by the line of prospective suitors..he took the challenge up his sleeve to win over the golden heart of an otherwise tomboyish girl. Let the best man win was not his thought, but “ she is the one for me only”, was his belief. He told her “ look have you been proposed earlier and if you have not promised the alliance then I should have been taken seriously”. Definitely, this Physicist was too thorough with his theories as he knew how to present his points and prove them too convincingly 😅.

War had been announced but it was a herculean task to manage studies and manage his love interest, for a student of king’s college, Cambridge. Whispers in the corridor proved right for some happenings. News traveled that his would-be partner is feeding alloo paratha to the hungry souls of Cambridge university in her room cooking religiously like a true annada ( the one who is blessed by endless food pot ). Romantic feelings were reignited the otherwise studious soul and the desire to make her mine became more evident. Every fairy tale has a devil but this had not one or two but many😆.

Inter caste unions were barely heard of and accepted in India in those days, the 1980’s era. So she wrote a long letter to her father listing all the qualities of him and asking Father Saab to consider this proposal for her. 

Sometimes in anticipation, we deny the reality and expect a miracle to happen. Every day they together went to check the red letterbox where they may get a reply which had their fate sealed in. Although it used to take 15 days for a letter to reach the destination overseas and 15 more days to get the reply if it has been posted immediately. It was customary for them to check the letterbox every day and finally they received the much-awaited response on the 25th day. Broad Smile on his face said it all. He had won the battle with flying colors. 

Not to take anymore risqué, he convinced her to get married legally so as to be his forever and ever just before she had to go back home after the completion of her course. Man proposes ,  God disposes.... कहते हैं ना कि ‘अगर किसी चीज़ को तुम शिद्दत से चाहो तो पूरी कायनात उसे पूरा करने में लग जातीहै ।’

We make movies on tales that have real heroes but the fictionalized story, this one is for sure have the spirit of life which has real soul. My dusky rajputani is charmed by the Punjabi boy with a benevolent heart and determination of steel. Every day they add a tiny precious moment to their love story and thank God for his blessings bestowed upon them generously...Touchwood is just not enough to put kala teeka on this amazing partnership. May the fragrance of their marital vows inspire the gen-next for keeping the partnership, come what may. Wish them lifelong togetherness and happiness. Amen 🙏💕🌈

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