Anatomy

She asked Prudie, “How come you love me so much? You hardly know me.”

All Prudie could manage was a sheepish smile.

“No. No. Tell me why do you love me?”

Why does one fall in love with someone? She wants the reasons. As if it was some M & A being planned between two MNCs and the underlying strategic motives better be in bullet points. He was wondering what would be next - graphs of dedication vs. return for their relationship? Or probably something more quantifiable. Beta value of the price of the gifts that he gave to her over the past one year!

Suddenly the gravitational force on his wallet felt to be weaker. Prudie felt like his credit card – swiped and used. Worse, he could also feel the pain caused by the scratches.

“I asked you something?”. Prudie’s thought process was brought back to the point.

Why does one fall in love with someone? He had no clue. So he came up with a management strategy. Take it piece by piece. If he could answer why he fell anywhere, probably he could get some lead. So he tried to fire from the unloaded gun.

Reasons for falling anywhere could be, to:

• crush a banana skin
• taste the dust
• seek attention
• check the strength of his vertebral column
• figure out whether Dettol or Savlon is better

Stupid enough. He felt like a loser desperately trying to justify something which was beyond his control.

Giving reasons for falling in love can only sound more foolish, nothing lesser. At best, one would be talking about the reinforcements that one builds up over a period of time. But are not these the after effects rather than the underlying reasons?

There is no reason for love. If there is a reason, then it is not love.

And that is exactly where its beauty lies.

That is what he told her. And she gave him a smug smile. They were happy.

END OF POST (for the lover, poet, irrational, sentimental, normal … ....et al types ..)

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As an afterthought, some reasons did occur to Prudie. Those could actually have been assigned. He thought of Sexual Attraction, Peer Pressure, Need for Intimacy, Westermarck Effect, Carnal desires …

The surgeon was dissecting, and the reason for beauty had to be in the anatomy!