A coffee with love

There are an infinite number of reasons that make us believe life is volatile. Although we are aware of this volatile life, we still love to say ‘life is beautiful.’ but is this quote a mirage we hold on to to be enthusiastic about life? Well, here let’s find it through ‘A coffee with love‘.

Harini and Vinai are a young couple looking forward to exploring life together. To see the realm of life amidst its volatile nature it is necessary to fill love in the air we breathe they believed.

Their marriage was a couple of years old. And, even today, sitting on the glass swing in their corridor and taking a view of their beautiful garden filled with three varieties of roses and some herbal plants, talking and listening to each other is a part of their daily evening coffee ritual.

It was valentine’s week, so at Vinai’s workplace, everyone was buzzing around with the word love. That is where this question struck his mind too. What is true love? He was trying to find the answer with all his thinking ability. Is it the peace I experience when I see my wife smile, or is it the coffee she offers with a kiss on my cheek that relieves me of the stress of the day?

He was still not able to find the apt answer.
However, conversations continued.

Vinai said: life can never get more beautiful. I say this because you are the reason behind it, Harini. Without you, I would have existed, no doubt, but still, you make it better. He paused to hear her reply. I can say that too. As I know, you are not just talking about the coffee. She said with a gleeful laugh that got her teeth to shine and eyes to sparkle.

Everything was good until the day Vinai’s car crashed into another.

A rear-end collision led to injuries and multiple fractures. Vinai was bedridden for almost six months. Painful days for Vinai. To see her husband in such suffering shattered Harini.

On one of those hard days, Vinai yelled in pain and said, I can’t bear this. I think it is better to die. His eyes welled, making his cheeks red. Harini wiped his tears and said I would die with you, and I mean it, she said without a second thought.

But, the moment Vinai heard this, the will to live drenched his heart. He said, please dont say that again. I will be back on my feet to love you, my love.

To have someone say I will die with you, without a second thought, and even to think of them dying for you gives you the will to live for them is true love.
Finally, Vinai got the answer to his question.

He was back fit and fine. There was happiness again for the couple.

One day, In the evening, after the coffee ritual, Vinai stopped Harini from getting up from the glass swing, placed a forehead kiss, and said, thank you for always being there in all my ups and downs, and I will make sure to love you till the end of my life. Same here, Harini replied with a happy hug of assurance.

This post is a fiction written for StorytellersBlogHop FEB 2021 hosted by Ujjwal & MeenalSonal.

The topic of the Blog Hop is ‘Volatile Lives‘.