I’ve always had few friends. Making friends was never easy for me. I have struggled in this area since my school days. I have just one true friend Maya. We were introduced by our parents when we were 5 yrs old and since then have been inseparable. Maya is the one who is exuberant and outgoing. She makes all the friends and I inherit them by association. Life has been chill with her around.

So one fine Christmas day Maya tells me a plan of celebrating Christmas with the kids from an orphanage close by our homes. She had few friends who would be joining us. This was when I was in college, 3rd year of my Engineering. I was excited, it sounded like a great idea to me. We went shopping for some gifts and snacks for the kids and planned out few games which we could get them to play with us. I knew most of Maya’s friends, they were in the same class with her in college. On our way back Maya tells me about a new friend who will be joining us along with her other friends. She says, “Arya he is so amazing. You know, he has assembled his own computer. He works on some projects online and is already earning for his family”. Apparently assembling a computer was very fascinating to Maya. I was curious about this guy.

We arrived at the orphanage. I met the new guy, his name was Digant. I instantly liked him. It sounds soo foolish right now as I am writing it here but thats how it was. I was instantly smitten by him. May be it was his drop dead gorgeous looks (at that time Digant was in his worst physical health as he had just recovered from jaundice), or the humble nature or maybe the carefree way in which he played with those kids. I don’t know what exactly got me attracted to him. But I was immediately interested and asked Maya for more details. Maya: “Hahaha….omg!! you really like him don’t you!!”.

We met few more times with the same set of friends for movies and bike rides and dinners. Soon our numbers were exchanged and I could finally talk to him alone without all the people. I am an average looking girl with dusky complexion and at that time was underweight and not very attractive to look at. From my perspective it was almost impossible for a guy like him to fall for me. I feared this would just end up one sided and me eventually forgetting all about him. But by some stroke of luck he seemed to be interested in me too.

And so it began…

 

The late night conversations….

Meeting along with friends….

Just us meeting secretly…

Movies….

Long bike rides….

…

I liked the songs that he liked, our tastes in movies matched. He loved photography (back then it was not a fad as it is now). He showed me some of his best clicks. He had very good taste in music. He was an extremely well cultured humble person. He would always be there to help anyone and everyone. He looked at me like I was an angel. He loved hearing my voice. And the way he cared and watched out for me would melt my heart away. I was the least talkative person in a group but he would make me laugh and get me talking. He understood my inhibitions and never turned away from me despite of my fears.

He was everything I ever wanted from a guy I loved. He was so much more. I was so overwhelmed with his love. And could not then and even now fathom what made him love me the way he does. I often questioned then and even now ‘Do i deserve him’?!!

Destiny, Fate, God….whatever it is that brought this human in my life, I will forever be grateful!