A Call For Company

A Call For Company

We were together in Lohia Park for the tenth time in the past week, and none of us had had enough of each other’s company. We were happy when we were together: our company made us feel good. We came together again and again if only for a few dregs of the potion of love and satisfaction that our company brewed. Love is the elixir that makes life a lot more pleasing than it actually is. It certainly pushed our joy to the zenith.

We made sure we stayed in each other’s company for quite a long time. It did push our feelings to a new high  everyday. Her company made me feel more special and important than anyone else in the world. It pushed down feelings of inferiority ingrained in me by Time.

Love has the potential to switch on a couple of floodlights that expose one’s nature and character before the other person. This is why one has to be very honest when one is in love. The lights are quite like the lights thrown on celebrities and sportspersons. They add values to the realization that loving someone is all about making the other person feel as special and happy as possible.

We only had to inch closer to each other on the bench in the park to make each other feel special and good. I wasn’t sure if I gained more than her in the barter of emotions that went on while on the bench in Lohia Park. We clutched each other’s hands whenever we felt ourselves sinking in the well of emotions. There was always a sudden gush of hormones rushing through our bodies while our hands touched. We tightened our grips to capture all of them.    

Luckily, the park was visited only by couples like us. There was no policewala eulogizing on the positive aspects of an arranged marriage this time.

Lectures on this aspect of life were superfluous for both of us. Exposure to the society and its values over the past few years, and particularly an exposure to the Indian media was more than sufficient to give us a comprehensive idea of the merits and demerits of platonic love and its consequences.

At the end of the day,  none of us was prepared to break the norms of the society we lived in although we loved each other quite a lot. We came together on different occasions only for the joy and ecstasy associated with  being  with each other. We wanted to bathe in the wonderful feeling one has when he or she is loved by someone. Our being together could never be more than this.

All of us need love, and the joy of being loved is universal. Both of us were prepared   to give and take love and affection from each other.  The barter had to be conducted in a special manner because we knew we couldn’t love each other forever. There were differences which spoke louder than our wish to be together.

Most of the couples hanging around Lohia Park and other parks are well aware of the finite nature of their love-stories. They hang around because while they are close to each other, their emotions and feelings create a furore within them.  This is quite like the din created by a couple of naughty children splashing water in a swimming-pool.

Water in the pool wasn’t deep enough to drown the kids.  There certainly was a lot of water in the pool, but the water could never have taken their lives. Anyway, it wouldn’t have been a pleasant experience for the children had they found themselves submerged in water.

But the children knew which part of the pool to stay away from to be clear of any form of danger. The kids knew how to swim, but they stayed away from deep water. They were in the pool only to enjoy the cool water and wet atmosphere.

We too look forward to the next meeting in the park if only to enjoy the bliss and happiness we find in each other’s company.