Love Is Love: Age Is Only A Number

She was waiting for me in a lone coffee shop touching her beautiful lips with a cup of coffee. Her eyes were always restless searching for me. At the same time, I was going to meet her. My motorcycle's speed got up together with the feeling of mine being late to meet her. My hand was on the accelerator, one foot was on the gear and other on the break but mind was continuously thinking of her. She, means my beloved. It was the day of our anniversary, not marriage anniversary, it was Love Anniversary of 6 years.

Before 6 years, on the same date I had proposed her and she had accepted my proposal with a smile and cute dimples on her cheeks with a polite reply “YES”. But it wasn't my first proposal. Before that, I had proposed her 5 times and she had replied with a strong opposition. Till 4 times I was continuously losing but this time I won. She was 7 years older than me. Compared to me, she was 7 steps forward in beauty, wisdom and creativity. Without having any other reason, this was enough to follow her. Yes, I am 7 years younger than her in age. The love from my side may be 7 times smaller than the love from her side. I was furious in the age of 20 while she was matured in 27. When I was born, she was reading in grade 5, she had passed grade 10 while I was in grade 3. We used to laugh discussing on these topics. I was a student of Management and used to had my morning classes whereas at day time I had my job. On the same office, she was my senior. She was very concerned towards her work. Less talk, more smile and more work; these words can describe her.

One day after work returning to home she asked me “where do you stay?” I replied - Near Bargacchi. She asked me to drop to my house and took me with her on her scooty. The same thing happened day by day. One day after getting down from the scooty I took a long breathe and expressed my feelings for her, I am attracted toward you and I am in love with you. She looked at me for seconds and moved on. Again and again I expressed my feelings but she ignored. On 4th attempt I asked her,What's wrong? Age? She was quite. Again I asked her, it's okay when the age of a men is more than a lady but why not if the age of a lady is more than a men? She was answer less. Even everyone will be answer less for this controversial question. On 5th proposal she confessed her feelings emerging towards me. “Love always find its way and journey is more beautiful than the destination.” How the love relation could be hidden which was started from the office. One day, she stayed at home because of sickness. Among the senior staff members, one asked me where is the bond of sister and brother today? With that question I was very angry and replied- who sister? I conveyed that there is nothing between us. One of them again commented a rubbish word for her, this was unbearable for me and I hitted on his face. This incident took my job. Later on, she also resigned from the job.

For some days we were jobless, we had a great chance to stay together sharing our feelings. She started making different plans for job. We started collecting job vacancies newspaper, sometime she think to start up own project. My parents knew the love chemistry and also that I was in love with a girl who was 7 years older than me. All my parents, friends, relatives scolded me showing me the age difference between us. No one tried to understand my feelings, no one observed my happiness, I was alone from my family, friends circle, but she loved me. Her efforts made an achievement. I was wondering in love with her whereas she was very concerned on the project. Another day, to prove myself matured I started opposing her each and every sentence even she was correct. I felt myself uplifted than her, matured than her but I was again wrong. At evening she held my hand and said maturity is not showing or doing negative part on others view. It's being sincere towards our aim.

We used to go together out of the city under the project. For accommodation we had a hotel room, there I laid on her lap for hours. She with her gentle hand playing with my hair was saying If you had wished you would have a girl of your own age, don't you think you are stuck with me. I asked her the same question.

She replied “I may had someone of my age or more than of my age, but to get someone isn't a big deal, the thirst of getting the same person more and more is the real happiness.”

I cannot lose her because she has came as one character and stayed as a lot of characters in my life; loves me like a mother, orders strictly as father, fights in a sweet way as brother and sister, teaches me many more as a teacher and the main thing gives me lots of love as girlfriend. I am familiar with her different faces that the thinking of losing her is just losing a large family; a single society. People criticize let them criticizing. One day, after having coffee with me, she left alone from coffee shop later while paying the bill, waiter said your sister had already paid the bill. I just smiled.

If a man is with a girl of 20-25 years old, our society name them as affair and judge them proudly, but if a girl is with a boy who is few years younger than her, society name them as brother-sister and make them to feel ashamed. Relations, no matter how much it is smoky inside it must be open up from outside. My Uncle's age matched perfectly with my aunt but their feelings never matched that's why he married twice after 5 years of first marriage. My friend married his own classmate, then he divorced after 2 years. There was perfect matching of their ages. There is 14 years age difference between my grandmother and grandfather. Grandmother never eats before grandfather. If grandmother is in fasting, grandfather also don't eat saying that if she won't why should I? Age don't bound up love, age don't stop love, love is always on the top.

Here came my destination, my motorcycle stopped in front of this coffee shop where she was already waiting for me with our anniversary cake. I went near to her with a red rose wishing “Happy 6th Anniversary my love”. In return she, with her smile and cute dimples on her cheeks, replied ‘Happy 6th Anniversary my love”.