A short love story.

I have been travelling since childhood. And I have a lot of memories associated with travel mainly travelling by train. 

Today I want to share a recent sweet memory of mine. 

I travel to my hometown twice every year , once during the summer holidays and the other during the puja holidays. Just yesterday I have returned from such a short trip. It is nearly a 36 hours long train journey , though very tiring but I have got to know some fascinating people. 

There was this couple travelling with us. The man , nearly 65, I think, though you won't realise except for his white hairs, and his wife,60,as he said she had recently retired . But of them were professors. Though the man was Tamilian but not a word of Tamil he spoke. They were mostly conversing in english or hindi. Surprised me because since today I have never heard any Tamilian speaking hindi by his own.On asking the man replied he stayed and taught for nearly 29 years in Pune and knows nearly 10 Indian langs and he is going to learn even Bengali .

He said he is even thinking of settling in Bengal , his wife's place , bec of the greenery , the vegetables, the rain , disliking his own place for the heat and the dryness.

But my story is not about this. It is about the love they share even after so many years of marriage. He said it was a love marriage and they did never shy away from showing their love in public, holding hands, leaning over each other and having a short nap, the man reading whats app jokes to his wife and laughing heartily, the little warm conversations I could hear, how loving can a relationship be!

The man proudly showed me the pics of his sons, both well established and one with a beautiful bride.How sportingly the man accepted his son's announcement of his girlfriend!Asking his wife not to speculate the one among many fb friends of his. How like every other parents they too check their son's fb? I smiled as I listened. 

Did I forget to tell you that the man actually had a reservation  in a separate compartment but was not ready to leave his wife for a moment.

The man bid a bye at the end of the travel with a warm smile. Rarely we come across such friendly romantic person. Hope we could live and love life as he does.