और फिर यूँ हुआ

Since childhood, I used to wonder what makes people fall in love: physical attraction or the emotional connection? I asked different people and got different answers, but none appealed to me. No, I never had my own perception of this riveting emotion, but still explanations and words on Love were nothing but mere fiction for my naïve mind.

However, as I grew up and started to understand life and emotions slightly better, I recognized my love: Words. People, places never made it to my heart, but beautiful words describing moments, people, emotions, telling stories, always made my heart skip a beat. Word had such a mesmerizing effect on me. Didn’t matter who said what, to whom or where, the only thing which mattered was how beautiful the lines I heard or read or listened are. 

And then I decided to explore my love for words and found my Neverland—a place that was exclusively mine and I could belong to. In this neverland, my dreams resided, thoughts danced, and my SELF lived—freely without any restrictions from society, people or nations. I was enjoying this newly-founded place.

और फिर यूँ हुआ की मैं अचानक बड़ी हो गई, क्यूंकी सब कहने लगे थे की "उम्र बढ़ गई थी मेरी." वाक़ई बढ़ गई थी या बढ़ा दी गई थी, नहीं जानती. बस मैं बड़ी हो गई थी, मान लिया था i

(And then one fine day, I suddenly grew up because People started telling me that I am a grown up now. I don’t know whether my age actually increased or they coerced me into believing that. All I know is that I eventually accepted the fact that I am a grown up now )

I didn’t want to leave, but was forcefully dragged out of my neverland. I tightened my grasp around the poles of my exquisite land and my dreams, but they slipped off my hand. Since then I have been longing to visit my neverland again. I am sure, I will visit that place soon. And this time I will create a boundary where nobody could enter without my permission—my dreams, thought and self would be safer there then.