Food, shelter and clothing – these are the basic needs of every human. But in cut throat competition,fulfilling these needs is really difficult. You have to work hard to earn all these things. But there is one more thing which is needed for survival – LOVE. This amazing feeling which makes people go nuts is even more important than the three mentioned above. This emotion which is said to be the strongest of all makes us feel alive; it kind of brings more positivity inside us. A lot has been said about love by a number of world class poets. If you don’t just trust those poets and these statements of mine consider this example: Bollywood as we all know is the popular name of our Film Industry, it happens to be the largest film industry of the world and has a turnover of about $3-billion. And we very well know that love is an integral part of these films, so just because of this ‘love’ we are able to make this much money. But comparing love with money is an insult for love. So let’s just get past this.
We all dream that when we grow up we’ll possess those basic needs but life is not a dream. It is harsh, very harsh. But somehow we manage our food, shelter and clothing requirements, but what about love? If we don’t have our own home we rent someone else’s home, if we are short of clothes either we buy it or if we have some elder sibling then we are forced to wear them (Damn these middle class rituals!) but what about love! We cannot rent it or buy it nor can our siblings help us in that. I am not talking about parents affection type love; I am talking about Bollywood type love (minus the idiotic portrayal of it). But then what is the solution of this problem. The answer is having a Crush.
According to me, “When you start loving someone with all your heart, dream about him/her 24 hours a day without letting that person know the phenomena is called having a crush, and the person you love is called your Crush.” Although origin of this word is unknown to me, I can still tell you a lot about this feeling. Here are some pros and cons about having a crush:
PROS:
1. You can enjoy almost everything about love without actually being in love. This is like buying Levis jeans for 400 bucks from Sarojini Nagar market.
2. You know it is not original but who cares!
3. You can have crushes on multiple people at the same time. No one will ever complain as no one knows about it.
4. You can make imaginary scenarios in your mind in which you and your crush enjoy a lot.
5. It is pocket friendly. You don’t have to buy gifts or take them to expensive dates which you would be doing if in love.
6. You can dump your crush anytime you want. It is like having a student bus pass, you get to enjoy almost every facility with very less fees.
CONS:
1. It is not Love.
2. It is one-sided.
3. When your crush starts dating someone it hurts.
Normally the people we have a crush on is someone who in any circumstance possible cannot know us, like movie stars. So there is no problem. The real problem starts when we meet or start talking to our crush. I have a split personality disorder, you all know about it. Whenever I talk to any beautiful girl or to any girl I have a crush on, my pumpkin version takes control. This meme explains what my pumpkin mode is all about:
This problem doesn’t bother me much for obvious reason – I don’t get to talk to my crush or a beautiful girl very often. But all days are not the same. One day I had a chat with a special girl – the girl I had a crush on! The girl I used to think about most of the time. This was like a background process running on your computer – you can’t get rid of it.
I will show you some excerpts from our chat (text within *…* indicates what all went in my head at that time):
Girl: Hi! (She messaged me – I am so lucky) *OMG! Is she the same girl? Is this for real? Am I dreaming? Let me check if it is her original profile* after 39 seconds…
Me: Hi! (I wrote hi in the same way she did, use of more exclamation marks would have meant I was super excited to message her-I didn’t want to show this and absence of it would have made my hi expressionless, so just plain hi!)
Girl: How are you? *You kidding me girl! Isn’t that obvious that I am on cloud 9 right now! Hello I am talking to YOU gorgeous. You want to know how I am huh? It is like the purpose for which I was born has been fulfilled. Now let me just frame all this in a nice sentence.*
Me: I’m good. You tello? * Damn you pumpkin! You will kill me someday*
Girl: Sorry what?
Me: I meant how are you? * A bit better *
Girl: I am fine too. So tell me how things are going. * Now she wants to know more about me. She likes you too man, just play it cool for the next few minutes and then the territory are all yours.*
Me: Everything is going great. What about you? * You are going to die single, virgin and helpless buddy! I mentally scolded myself*
After this the girl went on to describe about her life, what she was doing at that time, why she was doing it and all sort of things. It was like a dream come true. My crush was talking to me ,what else did I need. But there was just one problem – Our conversation was like that of an oxford graduate talking to a polytechnic diploma holder. I was literally holding a dictionary in my hand and was constantly trying to find out what she meant. It was like she was talking to me in Hebrew. And because of all this it was taking me more time to reply. You all know what happens when some external teacher takes our viva. The exact same was happening with me.
Talking to her reminded me of the IIT entrance exam. Questions in IIT entrance exam are not that difficult, it is their way of representation and the pressure upon us that makes it difficult. Even if they ask you what is your name, the candidate will think for about 10 minutes before writing his name – only because it was asked in IIT, it can’t be that simple. Now when that girl asked me I replied in the weirdest way possible. Even this was digestible. After about 30 minutes she asked me, “Where is Sheetal nowadays? It has been a long time since I talked to her.” I replied, “Sorry, who? Sheetal? I don’t know her.” This confused her. She enquired again. I again replied the same. Now she asked a heartbreaking question, “Are you Abhishek Singh from St. Paul Academy?” I replied in negative. She blocked me after this and I never got to talk to her. People talking to wrong numbers were known to me but this was a giant leap ahead. I still laugh remembering this incident. I was acting like Uday Chopra from the movie Dhoom – busy planning our future together in my mind and she was so dumb that she didn’t even know that she was talking to the wrong guy. But it was not her fault totally; my name might have confused her – after all what is there in a name!
Abhishek Singh 
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