Love Stories!!!

"A lot of things had changed, in me and around me. I had started slipping out of conversations with my friends just to give her a call. I slept less and talked more. My phone bills led my monthly spending chart,leaving the house rent miles behind in the race. I started noticing couples:the way they sat together in gardens, hand in hand; the way a girl holds her boyfriend, on a motorbike. I started worrying about the "how do I look" factor. My status on Orkut changed from "single" to "committed". She became the password to my several internet IDs. Sitting in my office alone, I used to smile, talking to nobody
Love was in the air!"

Recently I read a novel by name "I too had a love story" by one Mr. Ravinder Singh. I dont know if this book is popular or not but when I read this book it made me smile in a lot of inst ances which was just damn simple and not "novelistic". It was just out of the real life scene. And so it was boring in some places but I went on reading it for one reason. The book cover said "A heartbreaking love story" and I read about 170 pages of this 210 page book and everything was flawlessly sweet. It started with a guy meeting his love on one of these matrimonial sites and everything was perfect. The girl was beautiful and the guy handsome( of course, its the author!), the family cooperative, both guy and the girl in good jobs... it was just too good and yes the guy n girl were head over heels in love with one another and they cant wait to get married. I thought, after reading all their cute romantic interludes(sometimes it was boring cause they were too cute!) that the "heartbreaking" part in the novel was just this heartbreak for the readers who will be awaiting for the heartbreak and when none comes up, they will be heartbroken(I know I'm intelligent!!).

But anga vechar author oru twist..

Two days before the engagement the girl will meet with a tragic accident and be admitted in the ICU and naturally the guy was heartbroken. And suddenly I didnt want to continue reading the book for that pain in the book will be infectious and it will make me go dull for days together. But being a compulsive reader, I couldnt stop reading it now and so I plunged ahead with a braver heart and heart thumping. Actually I'm scared of watching horror movies(I got scared while watching saroja movie! Imagine that.). But that time, my sense would prevail and my heart wont jump out of my mouth and I will be in control which means though heart racing, I will still try to laugh it all out and have fun. But these tragic things like losing someone close to us, rape and all these things will leave me empty for days on end. I have read so many Daniell Steel and Sidney Sheldon and I used to feel moody for days and confused thoughts would clutter my brain after reading about the one character I love the most end up in pain or see them leave the world making other characters(including the reader in my case) weep and go on mourning for days together. So back to this story, the guy would pray pray and pray but his prayers unanswered, the girl would leave him and the world. She would leave him with such an ache that it left a gaping hole in his soul(and mine! ) which not even time could heal.

"She died. I survived.
Because I survived, I died everyday."

It was a heartbreaking love story indeed. With my exams around the corner, I cant afford to feel down and stare at the clouds for days and hours. So I tried to ventilate my thoughts so I could get some fresh air. Fresh thoughts.