Right now I am going through the book named "Rupa's Love Story collection" edited by Ruskin Bond. We all might have read millions of lovee stories, many books that speak about love and movies that shows love in different aspects . . . Even kids of this generation reads love books like "Twilight" series . . . But have we ever thought of the love between our parents ? between our grandma and grandpa ? ? Aunt and uncle ??
Even great love stories like Romeo and Juliet and non sinkable titanic tale ends up with a tragic touch. Happy endings are hard to come. Imagine if Juliet got bored with Romeo within two weeks of marriage and if Jack couldn't handle the high maintenance of Rose , all these epic stories would have been a utter thrash . Even for a happy ending love stories, the end would be like "They lived happily for years".. So even for such authors, they cant describe life after marriage. But our parents and aunts and uncles, lived together for more than twenty yrs and still we search for love from books and movies...
In every home the couple may differ in their way of living . For instance, some may be like tom and Jerry, irritating each other but couldn't live without each other. . . Others may not express their love towards each other but when one is not well, we could feel their care and love in the way they treat them.
Love is just not taking your wife to places
Love is just not watching romantic movies together
Love is just not holding hands in a beach
Love is just not kissing each other in public
Love is comforting each other when things are not good
Love is loving each more when we get bored of this marriage
Love is having dinner together everyday no matter how late it may be
Love is not judging each other even after knowing that they are not perfect
I have felt love from childhood days ( ya am such a moron you see). But I have seen love in certain places too . Not under a parked boat in Marina beach, not in a closed face behind a bike , not in the dark kisses in a movie not even in the 24x7 sms or face-book. But when sixty year old uncle pics his wife from bus stop after her work, when a husband cooks knowing that his wife is tired after a long day at office , cleaning dishes at home after his office just because his wife has a head ache ... This is more true and lovely compared to twilight or titanic, they are not beautiful , they are not super talented , they are not well versed in any special effects , yet they are humans and love each other and are just not surviving their marriage but also making a life out of it ..
In the recent past I had an opportunity in honoring such a couple who celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary and all credits to my brother Vignesh and my sister Vaishnavi who pulled out a surprise party for them. . . All the cousins, aunts and uncle, grandmas and grandpas, who came to wish them more success, which turned out to be a get-together. They are not Romeo Juliet and I am not a Shakespeare to write about them. They are ordinary couple, am just a stupid blogger, but love has given us different roles to play.
Salute to all the couple who are spreading the joy of love midst all the differences and difficulties ...
Call them Romeo & Juliet .
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