though i dont update status regularly,but todays journey from Jamshedpur to Ranchi made me in doing so.It became memorable for me when i spent three hours with those couples in the bus. i really consider myself fortunate when the bus conductor alloted my seat just beside them. They held their hands, and seems like as an affectionate as any cute couple could be. i hadnt asked their age,but seems that they both are in their seventies. I asked them how long they were married. I expected them to tell me fifty years or longer. To my surprise, they said only five years. He then began to explain to me that he was married thirty years to someone that didn’t love him, and then he remarried a second time only to have his second wife die of cancer, two years later. I looked at my patient (his wife) sitting in the wheelchair next to him smiling. She added that she had been widowed two times. Both of her marriages lasted fifteen years. I was curious, so I asked them why they would even bother pursuing love again at their age. He looked at me with in very angry manner and said, “Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing the end of my life? No, he left the best for last. I have lived through hell, but if I only get five years of happiness with this woman then it was worth the years of struggle I have been through.” they made me understand what true love actually is...
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:13:55 +0000