Written by: Katyayani Mishra
Love sometimes means letting go, even if it hurts you. The act of letting go and allowing the other person to find themselves and become themselves is what love is all about. And, you can’t force that out of someone. When you let the other person walk away, it’s like you trust them to come back to you, because if they do, they love you, and if they don’t, it was never meant to be. And it’s not toxic to have someone chase their dreams and then return to you with honesty and intentions of spending the rest of their life with you. And, it’s a favour. It’s simply because they realise the joy of knowing that they can spend the rest of their lives with someone whom they have always loved and appreciated.
As I stood by the crossroads with him, I wanted to tell him how much I love him and that I would miss him. I never got the courage to say that to him.
How could I tell him to choose between me and his dreams? The dreams that he wanted to conquer the world and fulfil his passion.
Words didn’t slip out of my mouth of telling it to him, but my eyes did. It felt like it was watering as I saw him in doubt, but I reminded him of what he has always wanted to do.
That’s the right thing, isn’t it?
To tell someone whom you love what they truly love.
I will wait for him as time passes, but am I reassuring myself with hope, or do I mean to stay waiting for him as he turns back around and finds me standing in the same place where he had last left me?
With my biggest fear resurfacing, I really don’t want to be strangers with him.
As he leaves, I tell him for the last time, “I love you.”
Conclusion
You wish your love story to be a movie, but you don’t realise that if only love stories were made by dreaming about them, there would be a million beautiful love stories & tragic romances would have never existed. You feel the crown on your head but when it tends to fade away, it pains that we someotimes don’t see the signs that are blurred because you still have hope that it’s raining and your lover outside standing to find you and embrace you because if this was movie, you’ll have a beautiful ending and you’d not have to create and make one for yourself.
