Ch. 5 - Sunset ani Barach Kahi

Everything in life will not happen as you want it to be, Life has its different plans. We were just about to reconcile our relationship and the 1st wave of Covid happened. Lockdown happened! And our reconciling phase started with Social Distancing.

Like everyone, it took us a few days to look after all household things and make sure about the safety of everyone. The world came to a standstill and it took us a while to get used to a new routine while being quarantined. If you look at it in another perspective it was the best phase of reconciling as the entire world was reconciling their lifestyle, their food habits, their work cycle and what not.

Both of us had got into a new routine as well. The best part of the day was the evening. I used to workout in the early evenings which was followed by just sitting on my society terrace, looking at the sunset view, capturing some pictures and talking to Minal on call. So was her routine. Completing all the chores during the day and by the evening sitting in her balcony talking to me while having a wonderful sunset view.

We looked at the brighter side (quite literally :D) and every evening we spoke about one thing at a time. Both of us were certain about loving each other but now it was wholeheartedly than before, for her it had always been so.

It’s not like we talked about it everyday, it was more like a healing process. We shared our point of views on various past instances. As I had mentioned it to her, I was answerable to all her questions, not only about the past but also the future. She took her time to think, ask, listen and reconcile every bit of our conversation. We made sure to talk about a lot of things which we had never spoken about in the past. We thought of hypothetical situations and discussed the if’s and but’s. We cried our hearts out at times. It was necessary. Every evening we went back to sleep with a smile and a little more assurance. Usually the bear hugs help you let go, a lot of things from the past. But since it was the lockdown all we could do is imagine giving a bear hug. Since we couldn’t meet, we put our hearts out in the conversations and it really felt like giving a virtual hug. She started to get all the answers she needed. Lockdown actually helped us in evolving together a bit every day.

These 2 months were really magical for us. We revived our relationship while being away. That’s the best part is what we started feeling later. While being physically together we tend to lose out on having some details in conversations and just understand through gestures. But this time we really had fruitful conversations almost every day, getting closer to each other than ever before.

During the lockdowns as we spent more time with our respective families we also made sure that we discussed it all with them as well to avoid any hurdles ahead. It's important to communicate openly and that was our newly found strength. This time we really made sure to think about all prospects of being together not just both of us but also making sure to get our families to get along. It took some time but we got the initial green signals and it gave a kick start to our new chapter of togetherness.

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