The Windy Pizza Luncheon

“Blink” goes the shutter of my “eye”-camera and captures some loving moments. Now when I open my minds-eye, what do I see?

Boxes containing pizzas and garlic bread spread on the platform of the Atrium and all of us squatting on the floor around those boxes…

We somehow managing to gobble up the wedges while the tomato and capsicum toppings were getting uprooted from the pizza and flying away!

Our hair getting disheveled in the force of the wind and making us look as though we have just had hair-pulling fight with someone!

Many of us had to hold our dresses and dupattas from fluttering around us….

The best part of the luncheon was the ambience that took us back to the school days. It reminded us of the times when we had our lunch under the trees in the lap of nature.

What is love?

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it?

It makes you so vulnerable.

It opens your chest and it opens up your heart

and it means that

someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You build up all these defenses,

you build up a whole suit of armor,

so that nothing can hurt you,

then one stupid person,

no different from any other stupid person,

wanders into your stupid life...

You give them a piece of you.

They didn't ask for it.

They did something dumb one day,

like smile at you,

and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Love takes hostages.

It gets inside you.

It eats you out

and leaves you crying in the darkness,

so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends'

turns into a glass splinter

working its way into your heart.

It hurts.

Not just in the imagination.

Not just in the mind.

It's a soul-hurt,

a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

I hate love"

-Neil Gaiman