Angel...

It was me and just I sitting in the foyer all alone sipping my coffee and I started to reflect back on how things had changed in the past few years.

Three years it has been that she has been on the bed…
Three years it has been since she has said a word…
Three years it has been since we went on a romantic date…
Three years it has been that we have fought…
Three years it has been that she had dressed for me…

People thought I’ve lost it!!!!

“He’s completely crazy”- said one

“He’s blowing it all”- said another

“Why don’t they opt for mercy killing, there’s no way she is going to make it “

But one thing that I have seen in all those 3*365 days was, she loved me and her eyes told it to me a million times a day and that’s what mattered to me. She has been my only duty every day in the past three years. The hospital literally turned into our second home, everyone from the doctors to nurses knew who I was and why I was here for.

Life has never been particularly kind on me. For the Lady love, I was an untouchable losing my mother at an early age didn’t help either. I was a loner pretty much all through my teens and it comes as no surprise to see a teenager falling prey to booze n dope as I had no one to guide me through. As said that people learn from their mistakes so did I, It was in the rehab that I was finding my true self and it was at the same rehab where I also found someone for myself. She was a counselor at the rehab who believed in changing lives of many such people like me but little did I know that she would change my life more than I ever expected her too. Her patience to deal with things and her passion towards life forced me to start liking MY LIFE maybe for the first time in ages. Not only did I lose my addiction to drugs but my
addiction to loneliness was also fast vanishing….

No more where our meeting restricted to the counseling room, we moved from cafes to restaurants to Broadway shows and before I knew she was there sharing my breakfast and my house…out of the 28 years of my existence it took me only 3months to find my WIFE. She unknowingly for the past 33 years did something or the other every day which had me saying “you couldn’t have found anyone better”. I felt too embarrassed to tell her but there were days when I used to sit down and cry thinking “what would I do had it not been for her”. She was my teacher although our marriage, a teacher who taught with love-Unconditional love. She tirelessly worked on me all these years making me a better person everyday. And for the next 33 years our lives revolved around each other, I wouldn’t call those 33 years to be picture perfect but it was close, very close to being picture perfect infact. We had our share of fights and high decibel arguments but the advantage of being married to counselor paid off…

I believe everything has an expiry date and so did my “happy life”. It was supposed to be our monthly date where I get to choose what she wears and where she gets to choose what we eat. Like our all other dates this one too was just A-W-E-S-O-M-E and after that lovely dinner she wanted to go on a walk and not for a moment did I think that would be the last walk I’d have with her. A drunken driver rammed his car into her and my DREAM WORLD started to fall apart but during all these years she taught me something; whatever happens it happens for good. May be it was pay back time; may be god wanted me to do the same what she did to me all these years. I never cared if anyone understood why I was doing this because “she understood it” and that was all I ever wanted….LOVE; UNCONDITIONAL LOVE….