Okay let me make myself clear - I am no coy bride-to-be! I don't blush that easily and I don't feel like crying yet, now that I am soon going to leave my family and relocate to Delhi. None of that for now at least. I hope the crying bit does come with time though...else I will have proven to myself that I am WEIRD. And believe me you don't want to go down that road.
Recently him and I got talking [we talk everyday and thats a lot of talking...making up or rather pacifying ourselves over the phone as its a long distance relationship!] and he was like I like you being mushy. At this point, my mind is racing just like you see in films. Everything is passing by real quickly like a carousel gone mad and yet, I cannot remember this any one time that we both have been real mushy. No, we aren't one of the weird couples. We have had our share of love and all that...but I always thought we were the more practical ones and we are! So my man needed the rain check - no love we were not mushy...not ever yet!
So he is a bit disappointed [sowwie!] but then thats the truth. Mush was never our thing. In fact if someone was to ask where we spent most of our dates, I'd say we are always checking out books. Boring...you think? Nah. His first gift to me was a book and many books thereafter. Before he had even asked me out and we were pals, just before my 22nd birthday, he made sure he couriered my birthday present - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And I wasn't even expecting it.
Back then it was a sweet gesture but then with time, to me this is one of the most romantic things he has ever done for me. People look for some mush in a relationship so that they can feel they are romantic. But romance is much more than that, at least to me it is.
It is romantic when we are crossing the road and he asks me to come onto this left side. Why? So that he can make sure I am protected from the oncoming traffic. We always hold hands. He never lets me walk on the outer side of the road. He has never asked me to wear make-up or asked me to change my style of dressing. We have never had tiffs over where we should go for a date. It is always my choice of restaurant and what I choose on the menu. I am the one who does most of the talking on the phone and he is the one listening. All of this and much more.
This is romantic because he is not trying nor am I. It just comes naturally. And that is why we are what we are today. :)
