We Don't Fall in Love with Night Alone

No, it's not just night,

It's those small sparkling dots in the dark sky with that bright moon shining upon us spreading its light on the few corners of the streets. 

Its dimness is what makes it exciting, yet pleasant. It's the cold winds at night which makes us feel relaxed. The dimness touches our hearts while we walk on empty roads. The night flowers that bloom beside us makes the scent so sweet that it makes us fall in love with the night. When we walk on the damp grass bare feet it feels as if the night is touching you, trying to speak to you, telling you how soft it can be, how caring it can be. The beauty of the night is captivating but the depth of the night? No one can understand it, no one can reach it. For some, the depth stops at the superficial beauty and for some it is speechless. No one can summarise it as the deeper you go the deeper you fall in love. For some, it's a beautiful place to halt at but for some, it's more than that. It gives them chills, it makes them feel sparks. For them, it's a place where they will never halt but will stay forever.

I think the night is soothing by nature, maybe that's why we fall in love with it again and again. 

But every love needs courage, courage to stay along. As I said no one can summarise it, you never know what happens on the next page as night changes along with its moon. You might have fallen in love with its beauty but can you handle its thunder, it's growling? The risk you take to bear those sounds? When it actually shows it's dark sides, can you stay along? 

If you cannot it's not a shame. It is, in fact, brave for you to accept that you don't love it anymore for love is not forceful; if you don't, you don't. It all depends on the depth but this time it's your depth of how well you understand the depth of the night. So you love as much as you understand and when it reveals more than you understand, you don't quite get it and you stop. You stop with a fear of the future, you are scared for yourself and that is okay. It's okay if you can't give what it takes to stay in love because then you will realize what you are made for and what is made for you. You won't be caged; instead, you will free yourself from the shackles that were burning your skin inside out. When you try to accept something that isn't you it burns you like fire. That fire will not feel warm, instead, it will make you feel it's wrath.  

And if you can stay along with the dark times of the nights then there is more to come; more to know and more to fall. But once you have stayed by your own will your falls will be more beautiful as you will realize the thunders were not for you they were for the rain that the night wanted to give you in return. Those droplets of love that touch your skin like soft kisses, kisses so tender that you will forget that the same sky was once thunderous and you will fall in love again, this time with the thunders, the growls, the storms; and this time you will stay. You will stay in the cold which holds fire so warm, warmth that you feel, warmth that it holds only for you.

This love will be deep, so deep that you will never climb out of it, you will drown in it but you will feel content. Because this love will not cage you as you will fly in its depth freely. You will fly in happiness and people will think that it's courageous, you may think it's simple but people will name it sacrifice. Because for them it's difficult to stay in love as it needs one sacrifice. For some it's easy but for some, it's the hardest thing to do. The sacrifice of not thinking about yourself, to forget who you are and to love something that is not you. 

By Devanshi Sanjaykumar Saini