"She is so beautiful"----thought Alex.Those cute dimples that would get formed when she smiled,the lock of hair that she would push back every time it fell on her eyes, ah, those beautiful eyes.He knew , he could spend the rest of his life , just looking at those eyes.
To Alex, her face was like the moon itself--full of radiance--not only an internal glow,but, also a glow that would make everything around it look beautiful.He felt like forgetting everything around and just going and touching her face.He could already imagine the smoothness of her cheeks in his palms.
For all these years, there had always been some kind of a barrier which stopped him from reaching out to her.
She was just on the other side of road---so near, yet so far.The distance between them was not physical,but, it was the distance put up by society and its barriers.This was his predicament--always.He had known her for a long time now,and still,he was afraid to tell her about his feelings for her. He was not afraid about how she would respond,cos, he knew that even if her response would end up in the negative,still, his admiration for her would not diminish a single bit.Even if she were to ditch him for another man, he had no problems,cos, his happiness existed in her happiness,but, his problem was the fact that society would not see them as companions.They were from different communities, weren't they?What would people think about them, why people, what would their own parents think?Would her parents accept him?Would his parents accept her as one of their own?When he though about all these, his heart filled with sadness.The clouds of gloom started filling the clear sky.He always tried to stifle such thoughts with the excuse that he would think about them when the situation actually arose,but, today he felt helpless. He felt as if his life itself was being sapped away from his body.He felt his whole body going numb.
Then he looked at her and saw her beautiful smile,and immediately felt courageous enough to accept that the thoughts about society was just a mental block,what he was really afraid of, was the fear of the unknown--what he was going to do,he had never done it before,and, maybe, he would never do it again also.
With these thoughts in his mind, he took the rose from his shirt pocket and went ahead to cross the road.
To Alex, her face was like the moon itself--full of radiance--not only an internal glow,but, also a glow that would make everything around it look beautiful.He felt like forgetting everything around and just going and touching her face.He could already imagine the smoothness of her cheeks in his palms.
For all these years, there had always been some kind of a barrier which stopped him from reaching out to her.
She was just on the other side of road---so near, yet so far.The distance between them was not physical,but, it was the distance put up by society and its barriers.This was his predicament--always.He had known her for a long time now,and still,he was afraid to tell her about his feelings for her. He was not afraid about how she would respond,cos, he knew that even if her response would end up in the negative,still, his admiration for her would not diminish a single bit.Even if she were to ditch him for another man, he had no problems,cos, his happiness existed in her happiness,but, his problem was the fact that society would not see them as companions.They were from different communities, weren't they?What would people think about them, why people, what would their own parents think?Would her parents accept him?Would his parents accept her as one of their own?When he though about all these, his heart filled with sadness.The clouds of gloom started filling the clear sky.He always tried to stifle such thoughts with the excuse that he would think about them when the situation actually arose,but, today he felt helpless. He felt as if his life itself was being sapped away from his body.He felt his whole body going numb.
Then he looked at her and saw her beautiful smile,and immediately felt courageous enough to accept that the thoughts about society was just a mental block,what he was really afraid of, was the fear of the unknown--what he was going to do,he had never done it before,and, maybe, he would never do it again also.
With these thoughts in his mind, he took the rose from his shirt pocket and went ahead to cross the road.
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