Life..is how you see

24th May 2013 was the day which changed my views about life.

My roommate at IIT had fallen in love in the 3rd year of our college with one of the most chirpy, flamboyant girls of our batch. I had no particular reservations for their relationship other than the fact that they were quite opposites my buddy was shy, intro and she altogether was different and i actually felt that she did not love my friend as much as he did. Actually, because of her nature i thought she took their relationship very lightly.

But whatever be my notion both got along well then i got placed in the USA and left while my friend got placed in an MNC in India. We kept in touch for a few months but like it happens usually we got busy in our lives and could not interact much.

I took my parents to USA and my links with India got completely cut.

Now 9 years later i am on an business trip to India i thought of meeting my college friends and contacted many thru Facebook and likewise.

I tried contacting my roomie but met with no responses.

When 7, 8 of us met i got this news that my roomie died 5 years ago in the Delhi blast at Karol Bagh. I was shocked and couldn’t sink in the fact he was his parents only son and that troubled me more about how those people would be surviving.

So i took his address and went to meet them. when i entered the place (a simple yet utterly beautiful one) i found a group of four 2 old men and 2 old women were having their evening snacks and were smiling, laughing and talking i went on and introduced myself to them they all greeted me with a lot of love and asked me to join in and served me some tea. I took it and was left with no words on how to ask them about how things have been over the years.

So, i decided to leave and as i was about to rise the gates opened and my friend's girlfriend entered (i thought so these two finally married). She was surprised to see me and welcomed me and asked me to stay over the dinner.


After a lot of pestering i agreed and later mustering a lot of courage
I asked her, “So how's life?”
To that she smiled and replied "Good."
After a moment silence she continued
" we were happy very happy together and were about to get married when it all happened i was devastated but then i looked at these 4 people (his and her parents) and decided that i would have to move on. I bought a new place brought in all four together and are now living happily."

she said when i do something for them i know Shubhu smiles and it’s his happiness that i always want.

I asked her how is she managing ??
She said love is not only about his physical presence in my life it is about celebrating togetherness and that we do each day with our parents and i know somewhere he is also around here watching our every move keeping us protected.

And then she added wish i had his child.

After listening to all this i realised the strength of their love and couldn’t help envying my friend on how lucky he was to have found this girl who is selflessly busy playing her role in their relation without the society bound order of marriage etc.

I couldn’t help feeling small at the girl's immense strength and pure love that their relation stands on.
I realised how wrong i was in those days.

She said she has enough memories to last for a lifetime and said. "Log aksar humse humari khushmijaji ka karan pucha karte hai to hum bhi palat kat kar kahte hai, huzoor apki jindagi mein yaadein hai par humari to har ek yaad hi jindagi hai." 


A huge salute to you girl and lots of respect to you. Indeed life is beautiful it's just the matter of ones view to take the challenge
Source: IIT confessions from Quora
s.