Pinky finds her Soulmate
A heartfelt tale of love, resilience, and self-discovery set amidst the serene hills of Aritar. Follow Pinky on her journey as she confronts her past, finds strength in her relationship with Karma, and embraces a future filled with love, understanding, and new beginnings.
The climb uphill was tiring and her muscles were sore but she moved on. She finally reached Makhim – her ancestral place) at Aritar, and looked at the mesmerising view below. Her steps hadn’t been quick, they were slow but steady, on the way. She remembered her late dad’s words: “Pinky, remember, in life you will face adversities and people will try to pull you down, so the trick is to get up and move on and no matter how slow your steps might be, don’t you ever give up, just move on.”
She now stood on top of the hill and looked down, and she smiled and gave her hand to her boyfriend. Karma was sweating all over, he wasn’t as fit as her, but his love for her would make him follow her anywhere on earth. They raised their mineral water bottles into the air and toasted each other. And then, as the sun was setting down and the view looked eerily beautiful, Karma, seizing the moment, got down on his knees and took out the box from his bag, where he had hidden it so long.
She hadn’t expected this at all and was engulfed with happiness and love and excitement, as she saw her man, looking at her with absolute loyalty, love and adulation. The lovers headed back to the Dak Bungalow and made passionate love all evening and night, surrounded by the thick forest on all four sides. The dark blanket of night was bejewelled by countless, glittering stars. They all threw the reflected rays of the moon down on the lovers who couldn’t get enough of each other that night.
Pinky was in love and this time both hearts beat together in wild tandem and their soul felt uplifted and calmed by each other. They were times ,when they didn’t see eye to eye, but they respected each other’s boundaries. They needed to express themselves and to be understood in return is rare and these two were fortunate to have found that in each other.
Their relationship like any other relationship – had first started on a mutual physical attraction. They met as blind dates, set up by their friends who knew they would be perfect for each other. Pinky was a photographer and Karma was a lecturer at the Sikkim Government College at Tadong. Both came from different fields but they both loved art in all forms. Beauty, they saw in the shape of the clouds, the colour of the sky, ripples in the stream.
Both were saddened by the dammed river Teesta and the increasing vehicles and pollution in the air. Both felt very deeply and they did everything with their heart and soul together. Loyalty was a badge they wore and being good looking helped them first to notice each other.
They had started meeting and found a lot of common interests, as well as a host of differences too. But instead of making the other accept one’s opinion, they had decided to hear each other out and analyse what was being said. If the concept of a soulmate is real, then soulmates they both were.
But Pinky wasn’t always like this. She had to fall many times before she earned a place to rule where she was the Queen. In her past, she used to feel very possessive whenever in a relationship, as she used to give it her all, and when she found no reciprocation, it hurt her and made her stay away from any suitor that came along to fill her void.
She had built an unscalable wall around her icy heart and had chased many a prince away, for she saw a frog in all of them and she was right for many froggies tried to woo her with their woeful sagas and then tried to take advantage of her naïve, trusting soul. But she had seen through all of them.
The fake masks that each wore melted when they saw her truth and honesty. She believed in calling a spade a spade, she didn’t know how diplomacy ruled the real world she lived in. Here, people told lies and so convincingly served many a foolish heart who would readily believe in it. She for one had no time for such wolves, for she could see right through their hypocrisy.
The one thing that attracted her to Karma was his raw honesty. He spoke his mind and told the truth and the fact that he loved to dance and sing with the passion of a seven year old kid, having his favourite ice-cream, made her find him adorably different from others.
Now as she lay in his protective arms she knew she could lay down her defenses, for the King would never hurt the Queen. As both understood each other perfectly, they decided they would spend the rest of their lives together.
He draped the warm blanket over her soft body and kissed her forehead. How had he gotten so lucky was the thought that worked in his mind every time they were intimate. This bundle of energy, beautiful and sexy, funny and talented, now lying so vulnerably on his chest with her hands, her lovely soft hands in his. How tiny her hand looked, how soft and pretty and yet he knew the inner strength that beat in her little heart. It was this strength that drew him close to her.
Both fell into a deep sleep under the velvety sky.
The man was self-made, truthful and honest and the woman had beaten her childhood horrors of abuse and neglect, Pinky and her anxieties laid to rest, her insecurities replaced by her indomitable will and her unwavering belief in God above. Both, he and she slept unknowingly that life had been planted itself inside her that night.
This life would get the best of childhood as both parents knew the pain of a broken home and to give children the best of their childhood is the strongest base that one could ever build. The strongest of characters are borne out of love and understanding. And until and unless people don’t find their mate who really understand each other, marriage is a sham then. One needs to be the other’s best friend at first, be a motivator not just a critic.
Together as strong partners, they will raise healthy children who will see their fathers respecting their mothers. And mother’s being who they are loving and caring and yes mothers too need a lot of attention and adulation. The kitchen isn’t just the woman’s area of perfection, to get help here works miracles. And fathers will get their backs covered every time the world tries to put them down.
Pinky had seen her parent’s marriage fail not because they didn’t love each other, but because they couldn’t understand nor were able to communicate well enough. She wanted a partner who would cover her weakness and strengthen her solid ones and now as she peered at Karma’s sleeping face, she kissed his lips softly and closed her eyes knowing she had done her home work well.
The life in her she wasn’t aware of now, as both its parents slept peacefully, was smiling as it felt the love around it fall in deep sleep in each other’s arms.
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