Zendagi Migzara

They walked under a starlit sky, hand in hand, content and complete. They'd both been in love before and had been heart broken before. When you're inching close to 30, one doesn't expect a clean slate when it comes to love. So scratches et all, they still risked and took this chance - maybe this is the one they'll come out of unscathed? She had just finished a class at her yoga studio and was on her way to the shower as she stopped by her locker to check her phone and saw his message. He was checking if she'd be up for coffee. She texted back agreeing for coffee in 30 mins. And so began their Saturday. Coffee led to a movie and the movie to dinner. Here they were walking the streets of Singapore singing Ed Sheeran's all of the stars, as the sky (and Google maps) guided them home. As he sat across the table from her, he realised, it was the first time he'd looked deep into her eyes. He told her they were his favorite feature of hers. She smiled, he wa

She was going away again. And as she walked with her boarding pass in hand towards security check and the boarding gates, she wondered why most of her time this year was spent at airports and in flights. She didn't travel for work all that much. Most of her travel was for herself and now looking back, she was travelling to some place or the other every second weekend this year. Was it a conscious decision, or was it coincidence? It was November, she couldn't believe the year was nearing the end, here she was, another year gone by, another Christmas approaching, another flight. Like most of her travel plans, this one had been booked on a whim as well. Something in her said she had to go and she took a day to book flights and hotels and plan an itinerary and she was ready, in May, for a trip in November. As she boarded the flight, she smiled, pulled her yoga mat closer and closed her eyes for a second, and took a long deep breath and opened her eyes. As she stowed her mat