Sweets, did I ever tell you how I got my first love, which was not your father?
Oh, Mom, tell me, tell me.
You think I am a bold woman, right?
Yes Mom.
But in me is a woman, and a woman who loved a man, your father.
Come on, start now, I know you are so bold, I know you love Dad a lot.
But not in love, in love I bend at my man. A woman in the arms of a man she loves is just a woman, nothing more than his lady.
It was back then, I was in college, not like you, waiting till your 30s to find the man you can fall in love with.
Yes, I waited, but I think waiting was worth it.
Yes, I see happiness in you.
Yes mom,
So we were in college, and the college had a huge garden near the canteen.
Take me to your college sometime, Mom.
Sure, so we used to spend time in the garden between the lectures and the Physics lab in the evenings.
Yeah, the science students’ dilemma.
One day, I was walking alone in the college garden to see my friends. Suddenly, I caught the eyes of a man. He was wearing a shirt with the sleeves loosely rolled up to the elbows. He was, I think, with his dad, like your story.
Like Mom, like daughter.
Yeah.
So as soon as he caught my eyes, I was young then, not as I am today.
Mom, you look so nice even now. Continue please.
So as soon as I looked at him coming in my direction and I was walking towards him, I caught his eye.
Something happened, I was exalted in my emotions, I could not control the spike of emotions, my eyes were twinkling, and the smile on my face was just growing exponentially.
Oh, Mom, show me that picture of yours. I want to imagine.
Yes, girl, then I looked down at my phone to show I was smiling, reading a note, and not looking at a handsome college guy who was much older than me.
Here we differ; you fell for an elder man, I fell for a younger man.
Then some shrubs came over my face, and I didn’t realize I was walking in between tree leaves all over my face. I felt as if I would jump with excitement.
Excitement?
Out of nothing —I don’t know why myself.
Then what?
When I came to my senses, I said to myself, I’ll look up now at him.
That’s so romantic.
By the time I looked up, he and his father were smiling badly and looking at the other side.
I don’t know his name, but I’ll always remember my first love at first sight.
He was smiling and looked away not to embarrass me.
Oh, Mom, does Father know about this?
Well, yes… he often teases me.
This is why I tell you to go to Chandani Chawk, Delhi, as you know something about him.
Hmm
You are a bold woman; lead your life boldly. We women need to be bold in our acts.
Give me some time…
Thank you for reading,
Warm regards,