Shaivi
“Tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide?” Princess Jasmin, Aladdin.
‘If I do marry, I want it to be for love.’ Like Princess Jasmine, that’s the mantra I always held close to my heart. Little did I know that one day I’d come so far, I couldn’t go back to where I used to be. I once believed in a fairytale life—meeting someone, falling in love, and living happily ever after, in that sequence. However, sometimes destiny has other plans…Fairytales never prepare you for the complexities of life. I found my perfect Aladdin in Dillion, who took the risk and loved me anyway. He took me on a magic carpet ride to a new world- Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky, but little did I know I was only dreaming. Everything with Dillion was a canvas of my imagination.
Just when I accepted life isn’t a fairytale, like an alpha hero from one of the romantic paperbacks hidden beneath my pillow, Shishir entered my life and swept me away. Well, things happen as they’re meant, and there are pre-destined paths we’re compelled to follow. There’s no avoiding your destiny…
Life changes in an instant. Love is lost!! But how do you let go of the life you once had? To appreciate the magic of a brand-new beginning, you have to make peace with the ending first.
Endings are never easy…Before the happily-ever-after, even fairy tales are sad and twisted.
Dillion
"Without you, I'm just Aladdin. Jasmine, I do love you, but I gotta stop pretending to be something I'm not." Aladdin.
They say, 'One day, you forget’ i... See more
Shaivi
“Tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide?” Princess Jasmin, Aladdin.
‘If I do marry, I want it to be for love.’ Like Princess Jasmine, that’s the mantra I always held close to my heart. Little did I know that one day I’d come so far, I couldn’t go back to where I used to be. I once believed in a fairytale life—meeting someone, falling in love, and living happily ever after, in that sequence. However, sometimes destiny has other plans…Fairytales never prepare you for the complexities of life. I found my perfect Aladdin in Dillion, who took the risk and loved me anyway. He took me on a magic carpet ride to a new world- Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky, but little did I know I was only dreaming. Everything with Dillion was a canvas of my imagination.
Just when I accepted life isn’t a fairytale, like an alpha hero from one of the romantic paperbacks hidden beneath my pillow, Shishir entered my life and swept me away. Well, things happen as they’re meant, and there are pre-destined paths we’re compelled to follow. There’s no avoiding your destiny…
Life changes in an instant. Love is lost!! But how do you let go of the life you once had? To appreciate the magic of a brand-new beginning, you have to make peace with the ending first.
Endings are never easy…Before the happily-ever-after, even fairy tales are sad and twisted.
Dillion
"Without you, I'm just Aladdin. Jasmine, I do love you, but I gotta stop pretending to be something I'm not." Aladdin.
They say, 'One day, you forget’ is a beautiful lie, and ‘Sacrificing your love’ is the most excruciating truth…They're right!
No one ever made me feel more alive than Shaivi, but my fate kept me sending constant reminders that the clock of my love was ticking. She was a striking fallacy to my blunt, raw truth- My best friend Suvanjay’s younger sister. She was my forbidden, shiny apple. Resisting her was like a battlefield, and I finally succumbed. Like Sirius, she brightened my dull life, setting my heart and mind on fire but I forgot the brightest stars burn out the fastest. Fate tore us apart in the worst possible way, i.e. making me confront my reality. Had she betrayed me, perhaps I could have found a way to erase her from my heart… but she didn’t. Her heart ached just as mine did; the only difference was she had Shishir’s love while I was lonely. Yet, as the saying goes, “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Love is like a candle- It lightens up the world around you and then starts melting. You hold it on even if it burns… but eventually, it goes off, turning your world darker than ever, and all you are left with is the…BURN!
Shishir
Like the sharpest thorn, betrayal pierces, its venomous sting forever haunting the heart.
One pivotal truth had stripped everything away from me—my identity, my beliefs, and my future path were irreversibly transformed. In one single day, my life had undergone a seismic shift:
Drastic & Disorienting
Unplanned & Unforeseen
Daunting & invigorating
Irreversible & Transformative
Shaking the foundation of my life to the core
Upending all my previous assumptions and expectations. In one singular moment, my life had taken a quantum jump, catalysing a change.
Sudden & Profound
Lightning-fast & Epic
Reshaping my existence
Disconnecting my past from my present,
Transporting me to a new dimension of understanding and belief,
And leaving me in a radically different mental and emotional state.
The impact of this day was all-encompassing, pushing me into the gravity of a black hole which was infinitely dense and defined by an event horizon... I was doomed to stay inside it forever.
