LOST LOVE

Ever heard of the line 'You never forget your first love. It always holds a special place in your heart no matter what happens'.

I experienced this first hand yesterday.

Mr. Kumar is an important customer of our Branch. He is in his late 60's and a consultant with a very important government organisation. There is a dedicated relationship manager who attends to his queries.I being a junior officer of our branch had never interacted with him.

But yesterday the customer hours were over, the relationship manager had left for the day and we were also in the process of wrapping our work. Mr Kumar walked in with his wife. As I was the only customer representative around, he came to my desk. His fixed deposit was in the process of getting printed which was taking sometime as the printer was not functioning. Mr. Kumar asked me which city I was from.

"Bombay" I said.

"Oh really! I lived in Bombay when I was young. My son lives there now.Are you a Maharashtrian?" he asked

"Yes" I said

"Thats nice. I knew a Maharashtrian girl once"

"When was this?" I asked him

"Oh... some 30 years ago when I was living in Bombay.She was the girl whom I knew for 5 years. I was in love with her" he said softly.

"What happened then?" I could not hold myself.

"Well we could not get married.Her family was against the idea. We tried a lot but it never happened....." he trailed off

I stopped what I was doing and looked at him. He seemed lost in his own world and was oblivious to what was going on around him. The look in his eyes said so many things which he probably could never have said in words.It was as if he had travelled back in time to some 30 years ago and was reliving the time that they had shared.His eyes spoke about the love that he still felt for her in some corner of his heart.

Mr. Kumar left after a while leaving me in no doubt that somewhere his friend was also thinking about him with the same love and affection that he was.

It is true...sometimes love does last a lifetime even if that special someone is no more with you.

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