What is love?
It's difficult to explain because a lot of emotions are involved in it.
I, Rini, am a medical representative by profession in the Indian subcontinent and on my daily travel see a lot of things that touch my innermost self, my chordae tendinae.
Today's feelings are on the dumb people that surround us.
While travelling back post meeting a doctor and telling him about my medicines, discussing with him the features vs benefit and asking for a few prescriptions, in the closing of my appointed call, I left for doing another Doctor visit. On a daily basis we need to do eleven doctor meets and seven chemists.
I boarded a bus,with a 240 number plate.
I went to the ladies segment and sat beside a teenage girl. She must be around seventeen years old.
This is the era of smart phones where we have facebook, Whatts App and the like. I saw the girl with the headphones plugged in and looking at someone or something on the phone.
It's chilling winter. Why would I eaves drop...?So even I took out my smartphone and opened up the song application saavn and started listening to songs. I paid the bus conductor the relevant ticket fare and was shuffling through the song list.
The ticket conductor, then asked the teenage girl about her ticket. To which she shook her head and then shook her hand and then showed a card attached to her neck and lip synced "FREE" ,"FREE" .
The strangest thing was I could not hear her voice. I looked at her, then her I'd and her lip sync. She looked dumb. Even her I'd proved the same.
So as not to get caught, I started to eavesdrop by putting my mobile back in normal mode with my ear phones still on my ears, as if I am listening to songs.
Eaves drop will not work here. Silence will work. Here I needed to follow her actions and lip sync that were making me curious.
Then a video call came, in her mobile. It was a guy. He too was chatting with her in actions. He was also travelling in a bus. I looked back to see if the guy was travelling in the same bus, but no.
Both were talking in sign language and the girl sometimes used to disconnect the video call. I thought maybe, she saw me peeping, but no, later while I followed the action reaction phase, it was a quarrel between two young lovers.
All that I could decipher was that they had met in the evening in the name of tuition and bunked classes. They had gone walking hand in hand, in a park nearby. There when the boy asked for a kiss, she had refused. This led to a quarrel and she boarded a bus. Now this boy was calling her and asking for forgiveness. The girl too was angry, as her actions suggested so. Later when they both calmed their emotions, the boy suggested they meet again soon. This time he said, he needed a kiss but not once , kisses in different parts of the face. This I came to know, because he suggested forehead, to which the girl agreed, then the nose, where the girl again nodded in the affirmative and then he showed his cheeks and chin. She too was smiling. She was so engrossed that she did not see that even I was watching the video. When the boy suggested his lips for a kiss, the girl became shy and bid him adieu and kept the phone.
She then got down the bus with all smiles.
I enjoyed their interaction. It boosted my energy. Previously I was drained out of strength, but now I was recharged. I too was all smiles. I thought, when I get back home I too will get kisses from my two daughters whom I adore and pamper my husband too.
Really love is in the air. Positive vibes bring in a lot of positive energy... so love vibes bring in a lot of love and tenderness along.
Feelings... feelings..... love is all about feelings. If dumb people can cherish love then why can't we, general people ,who work day and night to earn a living, take out some," we time" to relax and enjoy.