“I could not tell
you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third
or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me
and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with
you.”
The savant observer
of human life and raconteur in ‘Dil Dhadkne Do’ looks on as protagonist Ranveer Singh sets eyes on
Anushka Sharma swimming across the pool. She glances back and it’s a long
enduring moment as their eyes lock in a riveting awareness of each other. His
droopy eyes perk up as Pluto the raconteur takes in the palpably electric moment as he wryly remarks ‘yeh pehli nazar
mei pyar hota kya hai? Kisi ko dekha, brain mei kuch chemical changes aye, nas
nas mei khoon ki rafter tez hui, sare badan mei lehare si uthne lagi. To dil ki
dhadkan bhi thoda fast ho gayi!
He explains sagely, that in the beginning there are very few words, it’s all about stolen glances and chemical reaction.
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He explains sagely, that in the beginning there are very few words, it’s all about stolen glances and chemical reaction.
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The moment extends
over intense lengthy minutes. My question here is, does this beguiling instant
mutual love at first sight exist? Is it practical or just transient, lusty
chemistry at work without the foundations that test the trials and angst of love?
If one looks at it
from each different point of view there is a veracity in all of them. I do
believe, (maybe I am a romanticist at heart), that there is that powerful
intense something that magically creates the magnetic connection instantly with
someone you have never seen before in your life, while another leaves you cold. You feel a beautiful
palpable chemistry akin to a beautiful idyllic spark of sorts with an
exceptional someone.
Colpo di fulmine.
The thunderbolt, the Italians call it
They say it’s not
about a situation but about the lens you take to a situation. Recently in a
book somewhere, a father tells his son, “there is no big deal when strangers
get married. It is you teens who think a lot about it. A marriage is arranged- one
night together- and they’re in love!!!” Recently at a dinner this man ensconced
me inescapably in a corner and directed a long monologue that began with “ha!”,
he didn’t understand this ‘love-shove thing’ – marriage was this cultural
requirement, a functional process to bring forth offspring.
I squirmed out of
this arid scenario to the bonhomie of a friend and was happy to continue the
topic with quite optimistic views. He has been through the love at first sight
situation to a culmination of happy and enduring matrimony. He felt that love , at first sight, is ‘inexplicable’ - it transforms your life in a moment into a
splendored garden. Imagine, you don’t know this person, she is not film star
beautiful, without extraordinary appurtenances.
But across a crowded room,
there is this magnetic connect. And it is often both sided enough to make him
wonder if it is not some kind of a carryover from previous lifetimes. I myself
wonder too. How else does one explain this gravitating to each other in a
single momentary encounter? This compelling desire to connect. Certainly, spiritual masters like the Dalai Lama speak of the interconnectedness of all
human beings. And now science biologists state that one in three persons are
connected. The scientific intricacies of this interconnectedness I am not sure
I can comprehend. Though unexplainable, it is quite thrilling, to go through a
possibility in the background of the mind that you may somewhere in a magical moment
meet this soulmate in an intensely magical moment.
No doubt many an
unmarried biddy of forty-three sitting on the shelf is consoled with the
famous platitude, “there is someone special waiting somewhere for every someone
in the world, and suddenly, magically he will enter your life and in a second
you will know.” She waits on until seventy-three. The wonder is -nowadays -that
the biddy at seventy-three is indeed having that magical momentary encounter
with that special-someone finally. And there is the rainbow ending of happy
matrimony.
famous platitude, “there is someone special waiting somewhere for every someone
in the world, and suddenly, magically he will enter your life and in a second
you will know.” She waits on until seventy-three. The wonder is -nowadays -that
the biddy at seventy-three is indeed having that magical momentary encounter
with that special-someone finally. And there is the rainbow ending of happy
matrimony.
There is no age barrier for love at first sight or sell-by date,
for love at first sight. It’s happening more and more at every stage and every
age. Anytime is love at first sight time. Vive La romance.
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