It might be true that loves is selfless, blind and that sort of crap. But in this age when every emotion has become materialistic and when there is this strong belief that even relationships can be valued in money, there is no point in making those sacrifices which will make you feel dumb at the end.
But Vinayak took some time to understand this. As Swathi was in Gujarat and he down here in Kerala, they had to make many sacrifices for their budding love. If you don’t have complete faith in each other, there is no chance that the love will survive this distance and time.
You get some clue of the behavioral trait of a person on continuous interaction with her. We who were pretty close with Vinayak had begun to notice some uncomfortable behavior from her. But alas, for Vinayak love was blind. Vinayak was a kind of Casanova. He had been in and out of relationships. She too had her share of relationships. In that scenario the best option, for both of them would have been not to revisit the past if they didn’t have the heart to accept the past. But Swathi insisted that they should never keep any secrets between them.
This is when the most hilarious and notorious thing started to happen. She started suspecting him. So shouting matches started over the phone and the intense love would call off for sometime only to resume with renewed vigor.
Here enters the villain. The boy friend who had dumped her in college was making a comeback. This set the panic button on. Meanwhile he started to search for options that would take him close to her. May be he understood the limits of love through phone and internet. Panic had begun to set on both the sides. He could not forsake this high paying job and migrate north without giving a proper explanation to his folks. He got a brain wave. Why not MBA? The recession had not set in at that point. He got in to IIPM. Not a great one but a good one considering he had not written any exam. So the stage was set and resignations submitted. All formalities completed.
But the twist of the story was turning from bad to worse and poor Vinayak didn’t suspect a thing. She insisted he find a goddamn college in Gujarat. Vinayak couldn’t find any college that would accept him without writing any relevant exams. He managed to find out B school which started out that year. He had to do a painful research in the internet for that college. When he called up the college asking for details, they were so surprised that the first question was
“How did you come to know of our college?”
He asked for the location “Don’t worry sir. We will come to the station with vehicle”
“Will I get any accommodation near-by”
“Don’t worry sir. We will arrange everything for you.”
They must have pleasantly surprised to get someone from bottom tip of India in their first batch. Vinayak’s intelligent friends warned him not to take this big step. You cannot sacrifice a well paid job for a starter, unheard of college whatever the meaning of love is.
So ‘bye-bye’ s and ‘see-you ’s were traded and Vinayak set off to Gujarat. Swathi was tied up with work and she lived a 3 hour distance-by-train from Vinayak’s college. So the only option with them was to meet in weekends. Since once in a week was better than once in a while they were happy. Meanwhile Swathi’s previous boyfriend continued to torture her through phone. No one knows why she picks up his call when he made her sad. Vinayak felt like bashing up the guy but he was nowhere close to him.
Vinayak and Swathi met the first weekend. They went out for a movie. They planned for his upcoming birthday which they wanted to spend together.
They had a good time and then comes the first weird call from Swathi that night.
“Vinayak, let’s make the meetings alternative weekends.”
Vinayak was too perplexed. She explains that Vinayak will have to concentrate more on studies from here on. Good girl.
From here on she started ignoring his calls often. Our innocent little Vinayak didn’t understand a thing. She started going ballistic for small incidents. Her calls started going on call waiting for hours and Vinayak started getting only 5 minutes of the talk time. When confronted she said that it is her former boyfriend
“So you are ready to spend hours for the person who makes you cry. Should I make you cry for your time?”
“Vinayak you are not a part of my life anymore. Our relationship is over”
“Don’t say that. I put my career at stake for you and ended up in this goddamn place. Did you call me to come all the way here for abandoning me?”
“Vinayak, our relationship was a mistake. Since you are not part of my life I don’t care for you or your future.”
Thus ended the blooming romance ended in a couple of weeks after Vinayak threw away his job.
There is no point in playing the blame game after any incident. Especially when it involves breakdown of relationships.
Be it parental relationships or romantic relationships or friendships, when there is a fall the success is how much you can salvage and move on with life.
When Vinayak had a problem I could not do much for him except to pray to almighty to give him the strength.
Last week we met again. Yes, Vinayak had moved on and he started taking relationships just like everyone else did. He is having fun with those short-term make and break relations. He might be enjoying screwing pretty girls. I will not call what he did a mistake because mistakes are relative to situations, relative to people. . Only time will if he will repeat what he did again.
Anyways hats off to you buddy. I will never have the guts to do what you did. I can never dream about facing the situations you went through. You prevailed over all those who tried to pull you down.
Cheers!!!!
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