Welcoming the Spring!

Today was a beautiful day! After a long spell of winter and sudden snowfalls, Spring has finally arrived in Sendai. I went for a Hanami picnic with my fellow MEXT scholars to the iconic town of Ogawara, which has more than 1000 sakura (cherry blossoms) trees along the banks of Shiroishi river. Hanami literally means watching the blossoms open up, appreciating the beautiful Nature and getting drunk.

We spent most of the day walking, gorging on local food and clicking zillions of pictures. The view with the cherry blossoms overlooking the snowcapped Mt. Zao is a beauty to behold. The flowers are at peak bloom only for a couple of days and the trees lose all their glory in a couple of weeks.

Its a matter of marvel as well concern that it was snowing just two days ago and now it is warm and sunny! Global warming, climate change? Not sure!

As the Spring approached, it was also time to pour out my leftover feelings from the past winter and refresh myself with brighter, happier thoughts to fuel me for the coming year. As evident from my last post, I was visiting the USA for 20 days in March-April. The program was extremely busy and engaging. I was always working or travelling with no internet access. This took a toll on me as it was getting almost impossible for me to talk to Abhishek, my emotional support. We just never found  a common time when we could both relax and talk to each other. This was getting on my nerves, I missed him too much and that turned into frustration. All the talks about long distance relationships being a failure bogged my brain and I felt too distant from him. This might sound cliche, but I am very much addicted to him and I like it! Even though I loved my work and the new places that I visited, not being able to share my experiences and thoughts with him made me feel miserable. The time difference between India and US added to the misery. I am sure he realised and probably felt the same, but he has a higher emotional threshold among the the two of us.

I bottled up my feelings for too long but finally burst out today. I explained how much I missed him and yearned for him, that I am very much dependent on him for my emotional and mental stability. As always he patiently listened and consoled with no extra frills. And we got back to our usual conversations of Quantum Physics and space engineering. Made me fall in love with him, all over again! I absolutely adore this genius. 

Together through all seasons of life

Relationships require a lot of efforts from both sides. Mutual respect, understanding and trust are the key elements to sustain a relationship. All of these get manifolded by 100 times if it is a long distance relationship. Clear communication plays a major role here but what if there are situations when you have no communication either? That's when you remember why you fell in love with the person at the first place. What character attracted you the most towards your partner? For me it was Abhishek's maturity, ability to think out-of-the-box, his versatile nature, open-mindedness and eagerness to learn new things. I have learnt a lot from him about life and that cannot be traded with anything else. Every day, by some instance or another, I realize he is the perfect one for me. He is not my imagination, he is REAL! With him, I get the wings to fly in open skies as well as anchor myself to the ground of my choice. I am extremely grateful to my fate for having crossed paths with him and sharing my life with him. The cycle of love is perpetual, the accumulated ice has melted and the spring of our relationship is back. It might not stay too long, but we are going to bask in the glory till summer kicks in with its hot weather and we will gulp it down with cool lemonade.