Non-exclusivity

A not-so-wise thought

When you fall in love, everything changes. You start paying attention to minor things, from your mother’s childhood stories to how green your garden is. You suddenly feel alive. Even the emotions that you had only heard of start brimming from within you. You start believing. The first love becomes your destiny and the source of all happiness you think you can have. But then one day, this feeling fades away and you meet someone else, and then someone else again. And each time you do, your mind starts to repeat the same old pattern – mystery, love, destiny.

It’s weird to witness how some people move on. How can you hate the one you once deeply loved? Nina wonders how it would feel to stumble into her past but at the same time hopes to never have to face her lost love, any one of them. She has a soft corner for each one of them, even for that bloody chauvinist who thought he had wrapped her around his finger. She loved them all, maybe in different ways, but she brought them in.

The heart has been manipulated time and again - with stories true or not, with preachings vicious at thought. The heart is capable of unimaginable love - it has always been fearless and young. Guilt is just a cage built by generations of cowardliness, for what will happen if your partner finds another one. It helps you settle into your ageing body, losing its charm sooner than it should.  But if you open up and allow the fear to vaporize, you’ll find those insecurities to be equally futile. Your love will be stronger than ever; your heart younger and fearless.

About your body, you’ll always keep it under check for there will always be someone to woo you or someone ready to be wooed by yours.