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She was the rarest of the rare and I had been lucky to have found her. In life, you dream of so many things but you never really get them. At best, you get something close and have to settle for it. But when life gives you more than you could ask for and when it gives you better than your most perfect of dreams, it becomes a living paradise.
My idea of the perfect girl started with her being a sophisticated, smart, lively girl and ended at the idea of a beautiful partner. But she was more than all that.
She was an intellectual beast who could not be tamed unless she herself wanted to. She understood everything from art to music to fiction to movies to philosophy and could discuss them with you with the authority of a much more mature person.
She would get all the cultural references I would make to her and come back with an even better one. She could even know the reason for my smile before I could speak anything and would clear my doubts with something just by looking at my face. She would laugh at only the best of my jokes and so I knew what really pleases her.
She had straight-cut but difficult to see through philosophies in life. Once when we were walking past a cross-way, she saw a beggar sitting in shabby clothes with his bowl. She got so concerned for him that we crossed the road (although we didn’t need to as we were going straight) and went near him. She looked for some change in her purse but only found a ten rupee note. Her face filled with pity, she asked me for some change and I took out all my coins, one rupee, two rupee and 2 five rupee ones. She took the 2 five rupee coins, handling me her ten rupee note, and put them into his bowl. I asked her if she had to give him ten rupees only, why had she asked me for change. She said- “So that he could hear the coins”. He was blind.
Another such day, we were going through some shops and this kid walked to us saying things like “May the two of you always be together” and “God bless your match”. Then he began asking us for some money. Taking a lesson from the other day, I was about to go for my wallet when she held that kid and started giving him a piece of her mind. She said such mean things to him like “Why can’t you work for some money. I know, you kids get all the jobs in the world but you leave them so that you can just bless couples and ask for money”. All this time, I was laughing like anything, seeing the look at that kid’s face. He never knew what hit him. Even I was puzzled at her outburst.
I asked her after she had calmed down as to why she was so compassionate towards the other beggar and so fiery towards that kid. She said that it should be quite obvious to me. That beggar didn’t have a limb and was blind. There was nothing that was keeping him going in the world except his desire to live. That kid was a mean punk who chooses to live out of other people’s pity. She had a point and my hysterical laughter became a nervous one.
She always knew that smiles and laughter made a relationship grow and would miss no chance at that. Be it bugging me for being a vegetarian while she ate kebabs saying, “So you only eat ghaas-phoos?” or teasing me by that teacher I once admitted having a crush on.
But the best of our laughs, if not the biggest, stemmed out of one quirky little flaw in our relationship. She was my school senior and I actually was younger to her. This used to be her best defense whenever it looked like I was getting the best of her.
Whenever it seemed to her that I was getting too flirtatious, she would say, “Careful Okay, is that how you regard your seniors? ‘’ and we would laugh our way out of it.
Whenever we were having a disagreement on some subject and the other person seemed to be getting a tad angry or upset, the first one would come up with a coy remark like, “Okay as you wish Senior Mam” or “Huh, okay I give up Junior” and we were all smiles again.
There were other times when we wouldn’t get certain whims of one another and the other person would go “It’s a kid thing, you wouldn’t understand” or “It’s something you will understand when you get to my age”. And this was how every disagreement, every potential conflict and every possible clash of titans would be resolved within seconds by the 'Mam-Junior' connection.
This is what true laughter is meant to bring about in a relationship. Laughter and love don’t go on so good unless one can solve problems for the other. We might share hysterical laughs together at some slapstick comedy or on each other’s blunders. But the best laughter moments are those that keep our love going, glowing and growing.
Note: “This post is a part of #LoveAndLaughter activity at BlogAdda in association with Caratlane.”
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