A Goodbye.....
Maya and Rishabh held hands and stared at the sea for a long time. This was their last Sunday walk on the Juhu Beach, something they hadn’t missed in the last 3 years that they had been together.
Rishi was leaving India for an MBA degree and they both had decided that a long distance relationship was something they both didn’t desire. Maya had always had a strong sense of individuality and independence about her and that’s what attracted Rishi towards her in the first place. But today she didn’t feel as confident. She felt a lump rise in her throat as she dug her fingers and caught Rishabh’s arm more tightly. They had decided to not bring tears and gloom in their last meeting together and part on a happy note. Maya didn’t feel as assured of herself as she’d felt they day she had promised him she wouldn’t cry.
Soon it was time to leave, Rishi gave her a tight hug, a kiss on the forehead, and “Let’s keep in touch ,Ok?” and he was gone. He was also tense, Maya could feel it.
As Maya walked away, the next wave washed over their footprints where they had stood together for so long, their last testimony of togetherness. As Maya wiped a tear that had escaped from the right corner of her eye, she wondered if the footprints that Rishi had left in her heart would ever fade….
She felt a strong urge to look behind and look for traces of where they had stood hand in hand, and she did. She saw Rishi standing some feet behind looking confused. She hesitated, but not when Rishi opened his arms and beckoned her. Maya ran like she’d known only running all her life and Rishi engulfed her in his bear hug and said “Baby this is a stupid idea. Ofcourse long distance relationships can work! Lets make them work!”
“Sometimes I wonder, sometimes I care,
At times I fumble, sometimes I dare…
Isn’t love about taking chances??, I feel
And then I feel, if love itself is a chance….”
