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Fear

“It’s crazy is’nt it…..i told a stranger that I love him just after meeting him twice”, she said with a distant smile. Anil just smiled and gave her a slight nod.It was true after all. Anita, the girl who sat opposite him, had said those three words to him 24 hrs ago, and he did not know what to say.

“It’s also strange that the people we want dont want us and the people we dont want, love us”, she continued. That second line made so much sense. Anil had to decide on this girl. He was not being fair to her nor himself.

She was a wonderful person. She told him she loved him…..and yet he was scared.

It’s not easy to accept happiness especially when you’ve been let down a million times before. It’s not easy to let someone into your life, give them the right to hurt you, and hope they wont.

Anil listened to her not knowing whether this happiness would come back to hurt him…Hurt him all over again.

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  1. shikha says

    But then that is what we call as love. You actually surrender yourself completely in love & become so vulnerable, what ever may come in return………love or hurt. There are no ways of guarding your self against it & if you are doing so, then you are not doing justice with love.

  2. Sameera Nandi says

    Succint. Well written

  3. icon gal says

    “It’’s not easy to accept happiness especially when you”ve been let down a million times before”……..whoa!!! man itz so wonderfully put……..i just adore ur writing style……….read a lot of ur posts n loved each one of it………short , crisp n ..n ..marvellous ……..loved ”em…..Fear,,hope,,………each one of it
    tc
    God bless u!!

  4. shainy says

    and i am curious to know what path he took inspite of that chip on his shoulder.

  5. friendly ghost says

    Snapshot of an interesting moment in life. Very nice! Warm Regards, Ghost

  6. Vish R says

    Fabulous…words from the wise!

  7. dee vine says

    i know ”exactly” what u r saying…

  8. angel a says

    good one! deep and pignant! Regards, Angel!

  9. Amit Agrawal says

    hmmm nice one sudeep….will watch out for more…

  10. sahil banga says

    but hw can some1 ignore love?

  11. monu g says

    oops! i dint know this was supposed to b a sequelae.. how do i go abt deleting my previous comments..they seem so inconsequential…. Aaaaaaaaargh..

  12. monu g says

    Nostalgia is a good vacation & bad dwelling…as long as Anil will keep looking for the kind of happiness that he is seeking for; he would keep overlooking the one that he has right here, right now & will never be able to find Happiness ever… Anil needs to accept the past as the past & move on without imposing upon the future to bring him his cherished unachieved past..

  13. monu g says

    well, hoping that Love never hurts is ridiculous.. knowingly or unknowingly we are bound to hurt our loved ones at times..more so, if you have given someone the right to hurt you, its all the more unfair to expect them not to exercise their right :P.. Next i feel, the fear is that whether Love is actually there or not Or is it just a fad or a passing phase.. had it happened to me, I would have asked myself : whether i would be able to reciprocate the love that has come to me, in the same way or not… Just because i have been let down before would it be fair to hold on to anyone whose affectionate towards me irrespective of my having or not having similar feelings for them; wouldn”t i be exploiting someone’’s vulnerabilities.. i guess i would have been honest to her & told her that i might not be able to come upto her expectations & needed time until i could develop similar feelings towards her.. if Love is there, it would wait…

  14. Deepa says

    sigghhhh…i know where Anil comes from :-)…anyways, hope Anil gives his heart the right of way(yes, one more time)…and let the mind guard the heart a bit, lest it hurt itself

  15. Deepa says

    “It’’s not easy to let someone into your life, give them the right to hurt you, and hope they wont” - awesome, awesome words…

  16. Ash K says

    I guess with so much of trial and error attempts these days…..its indeed very scary because when it finally happens the shadow of past just looma larger and larger…..nice post …with wise words :)

  17. tripleR says

    love hurts., but its love, only when it hurts.,

  18. shivani narula says

    a very natural emotion which comes as a free gift with love……but still wiish u lots of strength to go ahead with ur heart free of this fear…

  19. meena sundar says

    divinity is right… it is easy to love than to be loved….. :)

  20. Divinity says

    It is easy to love than to be loved………hope she gets what she wants and your friend too……