#FictionSeries The Glory Of Love Chapter I

This is about a few good people living separately. They never knew that their lives will cross paths and no one’s life will be the same after that.

A boy named Chinmaya.  A girl named Krupa.

They both were living their life on Earth till the age of 31 (Chinmaya) and 34 (Krupa). Until they met on 24th Feb’ 2027, at a social gathering. During the gathering they connected/bonded over conversing with each other.

The boy was slightly off, in the sense, he wasn’t the typical stereotype man that exist in our society in huge numbers. Similarly, Krupa also was quite unique and different, very different from most women out there in the Society, vibrant and flamboyant, non submissive, wearing her heart on her sleeve. The gathering was done and they parted ways to their respective homes. The following week, the girl initiated a conversation with the boy, not knowing that the boy was in his own shell for a long time and nobody ever was able get inside those layers. She was persistent and did dig in a lot of stuff that the boy never shared with anybody, after a month or more of convincing. It did take a lot of time for him to open up as he never shared anything much about himself to anyone, like he shared with her. Krupa started caring for him and sometime the boy’s family by just being there virtually over phone or text, which the boy had never experienced ever. Then in a few months, while the boy was going through very hard times in life, she helped him pass through that with full support, selflessly. In another few months, the boy was in a better state mentally and emotionally, and the boy was entirely grateful to her.

Now, they were interacting  regularly and then the girl started opening up to the boy. To the boy’s surprise she had gone through so much but was living life everyday with full vigor, no one could have guessed meeting her what all she had gone through.  As the boy wanted to support her to overcome her issues, they continued their conversations.

For around 10 to 11 months they were constantly connected, so much so that he knew her routine of the day and similarly vice versa. The girl had faced a lot of issues earlier in her life that she overcame, emotional, mental and physical abuse. She told him about going into depression and then recovering in a few years from it successfully. The boy was surprised to know that while she was helping him, she herself was struggling with her life but she chose to help him, that’s a sign of a very strong, brave and caring individual. The boy decided to be with her as well, trying to return the favor.  They bonded over their hard times in life and how they overcame, surprisingly the emotions like sadness, depression, loneliness etc were the strong factors in them bonding at a very deep level.

The boy and Krupa, both now had spent a lot of time talking and opening up to each other, they hadn’t met after their first meeting in the social gathering. While mentioning about her life she also mentioned about her mentor whom she follows and who helped her recover from that phase of life. She helped her evolve and become a better version of herself and make the best out of life. So after around 11 months of connecting with each other over deep conversations of life, the boy also decided to meet the life mentor she followed. He also wanted to grow and evolve in every which way possible, mentally/emotionally/spiritually etc. The boy inquired from her and talked to the mentor. She willingly agreed to guide him as well through life. So now, Krupa and Chinmaya both had another thing in common that they could share and openly talk about it as well without the  fear of any judgement or reserve.

Krupa’s life has been quite the ride as she has faced issues in relationships, at home , with in laws, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong but she rose from all of that on sheer will and dedication towards life. She did tell about her relationship and issues she has faced earlier in life, to the Boy’s surprise she told everything that she could have told to someone she trusted completely, the only person she shared more than what she shared with the boy was her mentor as she held her in high regards, and rightfully so. In her married life, initially she faced a lot of issues from the groom’s parents but her husband wasn’t available for her emotionally as much as she wanted him to be, which drew her away from him. Initial few years of marriage were good but then she was in an uncomfortable environment but she was still managing, that’s the time she went into extreme depression. Her husband was a decent man but the only mistake he did was not being there for her emotionally/mentally when she needed him the most coming to live in a new place with strangers. She told the boy she did not get what she expected from her marriage and there did come a moment when she decided to not be in this marriage and move on. But, the mentor convinced her or rather manipulated her into not moving on and staying in her marriage, which she had to deal with on her own.

Krupa was an emotionally intelligent person and that’s the only thing she expected from her partner to care and understand, compliment her emotionally. After, this major event that passed by, her husband had a 180 degree change in his outlook towards his wife and he was trying to do what she needed, but the emotional quotient that he had and Krupa had were not on the same level, there was drastic difference between the EQ of both partners. The mentor’s approach was not allowing her to accept the event and move on as the mentor continuously judged her. Even if she tried to please the mentor, the mentor did not acknowledge the fact that she does regret something she had done in the past but that’s the problem here with mentor’s approach, if the mentor resolved that and accepted her and gave validation, she might lose all importance in Krupa’s life. That’s why she does not acknowledge her lifestyle and the way she is conducting her life. Rather, puts her down and always states that her husband is better than her. Actually, the event that happened in their life, the mentor had emotionally manipulated her vulnerability and made her to believe that her husband accepted her after a mistake she did but the fact is that Krupa was the one who decided to move on and part ways but she accepted her husband and tried to give another chance at their relationship, after the mentor’s push to get them back.  

Since that event, their relationship did get better to the extent of them being friends but Krupa still wasn’t getting what she wanted from Life and the mentor did not understand that. The husband did make a lot of changes in him treating her in a way to that compliments her more emotionally but still the gap existed. Actually the issue was that initially in their marriage when she needed him to be there emotionally and to care, he wasn’t available as much as she wanted him to, that drew her away from him and that’s what was causing his efforts to not be addressed after their patch up. Krupa held him responsible for a lot of health issues that she had after these many years and she wasn’t able to forgive him for  that. They were only living together as friends and in reality she was too far away from him.

Since that event in their lives, the mentor had always tried to bring her morale down by reminding of that event and telling her it was her mistake. She never weighed both the partners in the same way, as Krupa thought of the mentor as everything and she confided in her with details but the mentor on listening scolded her and told her to stop thinking whatever she was thinking. The mentor till date only tried to remind her that she had done something not acceptable.  But, the mentor never went into the details and the mental/physical/emotional state that drove her to that extent. The mentor never took her side, to ask and maybe reprimand the husband and tried and resolve their issues. The mentor has always tried to guilt trip her and tried to put her down in front of her husband. Krupa being the emotionally vulnerable person she was, she never uttered anything on that in front of the mentor.

The mentor had a weird way of dealing with issues that she couldn’t handle, she always said block that or don’t think about it but that’s not the case if one is evolved and mature enough to deal with something, they will discuss and resolve in a mature way but the mentor was not. Even the event in Krupa’s life that took place, she was not equipped to handle something so mature and she tried to avoid it, she reprimanded Krupa and that’s it. In true sense, if someone is a mentor and takes responsibility of someone’s life then they should take that completely and not partially. If she is not equipped to handle anything she shouldn’t try to judge Krupa or just de-motivate her as she always thought of her as her daughter.

Proceed to Chapter II to continue reading further.