This is the tale of two hopeless romantics, who were born and raised in different cities and met when the time was right, to fall head over heels in love with each other. To paint you a picture, I am from Hyderabad and my husband is from Mumbai.
I grew up shy, diffident, believing that love was the only purpose of life (Yes I did believe that. For real. Shahrukh Khan had a little something to do with it.) yet never believing that I deserved to be loved. Bae grew up in the Bollywood capital, also idolizing Shahrukh Khan, looking for a girl who did the same, so he can use all his charm to woo her. Little did we know that life was building us up piece by piece to be perfect for each other.
We each had our share of puppy love and heartbreak. But none of that could break our spirit. Our faith in the inevitable was unwavering. We believed that life was just a fairytale waiting to happen and it did.
One fine day, in February of 2015, we met and within 4 short months, we were married. No, it was NOT an arranged marriage. đ
After all the things that I had been through in life that brought me down, one fine day I was just ready to be in love again and he entered my life almost magically. It was like the universe was just waiting for me to ask. I’ve got to tell you, our story, is as cheesy as it gets. When we met for the first time, he was visiting my roommate with his friend and we happened to exchange numbers that weekend to coordinate plans. At the time I had no idea what I was signing up for. When the weekend was over, he left and I thought that was the last of it. Until we started texting and spending hours on end talking to each other over the phone for the entire month that followed.
We were completely new to each other and had not a single person in common except my roommate. I would say we had a ton of catching up to do. After only one day of texting each other, we realized we had this amazing over-the-top connection, that we call ‘sync’. The more time we spent talking, the more connected we felt. It was unbelievable.
It’s like this, you spend your entire life watching movies going “Are you kidding me? This can’t be real. How does the guy know she’s the right girl? How do they happen to be at the same place that day? What are the odds?” until it happens to you one fine day and you are like “Oooooh. I see it now. Yepp, totally legit.”
We all hope for the perfect love story and when something perfect comes along, we waste no time in beginning to doubt it. I called myself on that one though and believe me, faith in the perfection is what makes us what we are as a couple. We all have this idea of perfection, so why is it that the reality is so hard to visualize? It’s all within reach. If only we took a step towards faith.
How did we end up being married so soon? I will be telling you in my next post. Stay tuned.
