The calm after a storm...

The lost vagabond has come back after a long time... and hopefully, this time around, I'll be able to continue the journey I had started a long time back. This particular blog, too, is also about a journey, an inner one - the calm after a storm. What I want to write about today is something I've craved for a long time and today, when I feel the calm within, even that craving seems blurred. How important it is to be 'emotionally available' for your partner in the journey of life that surely throws us off the road without any warning. Being 'emotionally available' for your partner is 'extremely vital' or should I say the most crucial part of a relationship. While falling into the trap of mundane life, it takes effort to nurture a relationship. And most of the time, when the craving for quality time, companionship, love, conversations, flirtatious glare, and lustful touch is loop-sided, the suffering of the one who is craving for all of these and more, eats up the person bit by bit, every day, every moment. 

The one mistake many of us do once in a committed relationship is taking it for granted and pausing every attempt to nurture the once most special part of one's life. It's like when we plant a sapling, we water it, give it fodder, take utmost care of it, and one fine day when it grows into a lush green tree, we stop paying any heed to it, as we assume that it doesn't require anything and can sustain on its own. And one fine day, there is a storm and before we realise, the tree gets uprooted, without a warning. A human being, no matter at what stage of his/her life, requires every bit of nurturing and love in abundance. Or else, one day it's bound to wither, without a warning.

So, today, as I've resumed the journey of self-love post a long hiatus, I promise to give myself all the nurturing I always sought outside. Today, I say sorry to myself whom I've ignored for the longest time. Let me tell you, "I love you". Thank you for bearing with me all this while when I was unavailable for you... you are the best and you should know it... Let's begin... all over again... the journey of a vagabond.