"It's a love story, baby just say YES"

Love stories. They are all around, everywhere. Ordinary ones and extraordinary ones; simple and bizarre, sweet and bittersweet, short-lived and eternal.

Some people have beautiful, fairytale-like love stories. They marry their childhood sweetheart or the first person they date, and end up being together right till the end.

Others have dramatic, ‘filmy’ love stories. They meet someone, part ways, meet again, fall out, realize that the person is suddenly important to them in ways they can’t explain, and hence finally wind up together, after crossing innumerable hurdles or traversing through innumerable twists and turns, or fighting innumerable battles and winning.

Then there are the cute, ‘made-in-heaven’ kind of love stories. Boy meets girl, or vice versa, and ta-da, they just know that this is it! Love at first sight, the cynics be damned. They HAVE to be together, no matter what, even if they bite each other’s heads off all the time, or one is strictly vegetarian and the other lives for chicken tikka, or one is a detached Aquarian while the other is emotional Scorpio. these kind of romances are way above such frivolities as compatibility.

On the somber side, there are the tragic, ill-fated, heart-wrenching stories. The ones that end in untimely death of one or both the lovers, or involve difficult compromises and separation.

Then there are the painful, heart-breaking tales full of betrayal or manipulation or abuse or selfishness, where one person suffers while the other takes advantage in the name of love.

Other love stories are simply pathetic or pitiable, for lack of a better word. They are non-starters because the love in question is unrequited or impractical or impossible. One person pines and aches and longs for the other, who is aloof and absolutely unaffected.

Some love stories are just sad, because they meander through innumerable ups and downs only to end up nowhere or fizzle out. They leave the lovers worn out and hopeless.

Then there are the grounded love stories, which one finds in happy arranged marriages, when the partners have actually LEARNED to love each other over a period of time and live together forever.

And finally, there are ugly ones which leave people scarred because mean things are said or done or the two simply fall out of love inexplicably.

Of course, all these types overlap into one another, for love is complex and multi-layered, but no matter what way romantic love affects your life, it definitely leaves you a changed person.

My own first love story unfortunately fell into the pathetic, pitiable category and I still cry over it sometimes, when I think of all the pain and frustration and overwhelming, repressed feelings, but it taught me something important: that love is magical and something that you should never give up on, no matter what. As childish and far fetched and stupid as it sounds, I still believe with conviction, deep inside, that someday, somewhere, I’m definitely going to meet that one person who is truly made just for me. that one person who'll accept me with every fault and eccentricity intact, treat me like his princess even though I’m just a bespectacled writer who is always finding something funny in very not-funny situations and remains permanently pissed off at society and its stupid ways.

Oh yes, I believe in the possibility of that impossible person coming along to make me his. For like they say in the movies: "love, actually does exist."

Until next time, I leave you with lines from two of my favorite songs:

Somewhere out there, I know there is a someone who is waiting just for me mahiya…he’s going to set me free mahiya.

Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone, I’ll be waiting, all there’s left to do is run; you’ll be the prince, and I’ll be the princess, it’s a love story, baby just say yes!



P.S. Do you know of any other kind of love stories which I missed out?

P.P.S. Who's that guy in the video? He's H-O-T!!