Love

At first sight

Posted on by Nikhil Anand

You meet a lot of people in your life, but there are very few who catch your attention at first sight. ‘Love at first sight’ is a well-known adage. But does it really happen? Has it ever happened to you?

You meet someone, or perhaps just have a glimpse of them as they pass by, and your heart skips a beat. In no time, you start thinking about them. Despite repeated efforts, there is no control over your thoughts, and a seemingly random person becomes a top priority in your mind.

Wherever you go, you start looking out for them. You see perfection in them. In everything you see, or everyone that you meet, you try to find a shadow of that person in them. And when you finally meet that person again, even though they do not turn out to be like the one you had imagined them to be, you are ready to make every compromise possible only to accommodate them in your life.

First sight is quite impactful indeed.

At First Sight

Disclaimer: Re-created art. 

Art, Musings

Breathing distance

Image | Posted on by Nikhil Anand

There will come a time in life when you will become infatuated with a single soul. For this person, you would do anything and not think twice about it, but when asked why, you will have no answer.

You will try your whole life to understand how a single person can affect you as much as they do, but you will never find out. And no matter how badly you hate it or how badly it hurts, you will love this person without regret for the rest of your life.

breathingdistance

Breathing Distance

 

Disclaimer: Again, art recreated. Found it on the Internet. 

love

I see love

Posted on by Nikhil Anand

love

It was right then – when she asked a tough mathematics question, and all I did was stare at her. I had no clue about the answer because my mathematics knowledge had only dwindled to a dim verge after I left school.

She was expecting an answer from me – for the reason that I had actually approached her to teach me something as tricky as trigonometry. I knew it would be time consuming, and I would get my chances to be with her for a few extra minutes.

I uttered a rubbish answer which made no sense, and she smiled, and then guffawed. As I said, it was right then, just right then – that I realised the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls’ bodies ease from one place to another, from the arc to the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip, to waist, to neck, to ski-slope nose to forehead, to shoulder, to the concave arch of the back… But out of the lot, the one on her face, the smile, catches your attention the most. And when that happens, you know it is love.

I had noticed curves before, of course, but I had never quite apprehended their significance until I had seen her smile that day.

And every time I have seen her since then, I have seen love.

Bitter-sweet fights

Posted on by Nikhil Anand

Angry? Naw yeah.

Have you ever liked someone to an extent that you cannot stay mad at them for too long? If yes, you are very fortunate.

We meet a lot of people in our life, but there are very few who stay close to our thoughts. Fights are inevitable, for the reason that argument and disagreement forms the base of human thought process. If we do not disagree with each other, the world surely will be a calmer place, but one with no scope of improvements.

I see arguments and disagreements as perfect forums for opinions to emerge. While a particular thought might seem outrightly incorrect to you, there are serious chances that you might change your perspective towards that thought later.

You argue with the one you love over an issue. Obviously, in the heat of the moment, you put in arguments to prove your point somehow. Later, when the tensions drain down, the entire argument keeps running in your head. And this is the time when you realise that maybe, maybe, maybe the other person was correct too – not to entirety, but to some extent.

You feel like approaching that person to talk again, because they mean to you. One odd heated discussion cannot take anything away from the fact that they actually hold a special position in your life. But then there is this thing called ego, which holds you back.

This feeling, this very feeling of wanting to talk to your loved one, but also not wanting to talk to them because you want them to talk to you first, is just amazing. I find it cute, and this is what makes the fights bitter-sweet.

About the art – Recreated in 2014. Found it on Internet. All blues, from pens to paint, to sketch pens, to markers.