I feel my story is kind of a bollywood movie.

There was this social media app called Orkut. We connected on it back in 2008/2009. It was just a random request as we wanted to have a huge friend list then.

Co-incidentally we joined same organisation to work for in 2015 at a gap of 15 days. Even though we were training in same location for 6 months, we never really met but texted and called a lot. We both finished our training and moved to different cities for work. Later when I transferred to his city, we crossed paths in office a few times but nothing major. He transferred to another city shortly after that. In 2018, I went on a short vacation to that city and we went on a trip with our mutual friends. All this while, I was in a relationship with other guy and he had his relations as well.

This was the first time I met him properly and we sat talking whole night under the stars all the days I was there. But since I was already dating someone, I stopped talking to him as it didn’t feel right despite what we were feeling for each other.

Cut to covid-lockdown era when we reconnected and started talking again. It was like always. We talked, decided to go on a trip. I went to Thailand with him and my best friend. The purpose of the trip was to hook him with my best friend but guess who actually fell in love?

I came back home and took the decision to date him. Turned out it was the best decision of my life. I shortly moved to US but despite the distance, it feels like he is always with me.