Author - Jui Purohit.

  I believe in loving with your whole soul ~ Beth Dutton. Loving someone is a heavenly feeling, isn't it? But shouldn't this feeling, this emotion be revealed to the one you love? Because, that's when your love will be crowned. 'I want to tell the world how much I love you, but I would appear like a fool if I did'. So, I am in this category. I might be a fool to accept it too! "He loves me and I can tell", my mind was smart that way. I knew from his gestures, his polite conversations, his tiny acts of affinity. It was quite apparent.  He was always straightforward when it came to show love. He proposed to me, didn't bother if we were crossing the road, didn't bother if it wasn't a lavish or celebrated proposal. Most important thing was letting me know, how much he loves me.....certainly, that's all that matters! Even if I came across as a bold and a dauntless woman, revealing love, is something that made me timid. Should I hold his hand? Or...

 "Girls shouldn't be short tempered", my dadi used to say. Don't get me wrong, dadi wasn't conservative at all. She was a very modern woman for her era. She played tennis dresed up in a saari. She stopped so many shallow traditions that would've been a legacy of our family, if not for her. Well, coming back to the topic. I was a short tempered girl, yes I was, I admit. Dadi said that a woman is the one, who can protect her relations. Women are more emotional at the same time practical. So holding your anger for loved ones is the best thing to do. And I am on the same page with her, short temper is futile. I knew it, yet when something triggered me, I would object, but that objection was a projection of my pique and the aggressiveness would be at peak. Increase in decibels, compressed eyebrows, nose bridge along with the nose raised...exactly! Just the way you imagined. Anger management techniques were peppered on me. "Count till ten, if the rage doesn...