A Sacred Chapter of Love, Separation makes love immortal
Today I am going to share with you a story that usually doesn’t happen much these days but it happened to me in my life so it is not a made up story it is based on a true story. Being born in a middle clus family, I got my smartphone much later and I still remember when I started Facebook after completing college. At that time Facebook was a completely different thing i.e. people had a passion for Facebook. At that time we had no idea about reels, we only saw and enjoyed the posts that came in front of us on Facebook, and we had an additional joy that we could talk to many new people through this medium. Now most of the people who use these social media are thinking about how they can earn money which we could never think of in our time. Ever since I was a child, I wanted to learn about different cultures to talk to foreigners, so I got that opportunity when I got hold of Facebook. But the problem was that I didn’t understand English that much because I studied in Bengali medium, but because I had an interest in learning English, I slowly started talking to foreigners. And gradually I became friends with people from many countries like America Russia Philippines Indonesia. Although it is good to say that when I didn’t get a smartphone, I had an old phone with which I used to use Facebook, so I didn’t have the facility to use all the features that we now get on Facebook on Android phones. But despite that I used to enjoy Facebook a lot.
While using Facebook, one day I met a girl whose home was Burma or Myanmar..Gradually our friendship turned into love I still remember she told me you would not cheat on me I said there is no question of cheating as long as I live. I learned from her that she has ties to a separatist group in Myanmar and wants to separate their territory from their government. Her association with the separatist forces was not that I liked very much but I lover so much that I decided to join the separatist party too. Although she forbade me a lot because it involved a lot of risk and loss of life but I decided to join ignoring everything. Got to know from her that she is the only daughter in her family and has three brothers. She was very enthusiastic and wanted to know about many things from me, especially about international laws and regulations. I told her the ones I knew. She listened to me carefully. One thing I noticed was that she loved me more than I loved her. She wanted to be always connected with me, so she could never leave me and move on. I also had that only thing of love in the whole world and I could not imagine anything without her. In this way our days were passing suddenly that day appeared in our life I can never forget about that day it was the day of our separation.
She told me that she has to go for training that the training will last for about three years and as soon as she completes her training she will be ready for war i.e. risking her life to liberate her territory. It’s not that I didn’t know before I knew but suddenly that day came that I don’t know why in my mind it started to hurt and I told her that I also want to train with her and I also want to join this battle with her. At first she objected but then she agreed. And she sent the necessary money for me to reach her country so that I would not have any difficulty to reach there. I was also mentally preparing myself to leave my country and head for a completely uncertain life. But for me it was my family that I couldn’t forget about them and I can still remember that as the days went on, that is, as the day of departure approached, a frenzy or apprehension about my family kept working in my mind. I was just wondering who will take care of my parents if I die in the war or never come back. In doing so my family grew suspicious of me and they guessed to some extent that I could not go any further despite my best efforts. I told this incident to my girlfriend but strangely she was happy not to be sad then I realized that she never really wanted me to participate in the war. In fact she never wants me to die in front of her eyes. She wants me to live happily ever after. I asked her to send back the money she had sent but she refused so, I had to keep the money. The last time I spoke to her, was the night before going for training, when I learned that her training would be extremely difficult. And after the training she has to prepare for war and she will not have any mobile phone for this long time I was surprised to hear that how can I not talk to her for this long time. We both cried for a long time and started kissing each other through the phone. I felt like I could hug her and cry but my physical distance from her was too great to be possible so it was as emotional as it could be over the phone. She told me that if she is alive then she must contact me wherever she is in the world and marry me and if she doesn’t contact me after a certain time then she should be considered dead. And she also told me that if she doesn’t contact me even after that certain time then I should not marry another girl and life will be good. I knew that death in the battlefield was a common occurrence, but when she continued to talk about her death in her own words, I continued to suffer. Although I was suffering a lot in my heart, I could not say anything in my mouth, I understood that this is happening to herself also. We both remained silent for a long time and we finished our last words by kissing each other some more. When our talk was over, I realized that my tears had completely soaked the clothes on my body.
A long time has passed since this incident but even after that I did not get any trace of her. I tried many times on the phone number on which I used to talk to her but there was no connection. Although the Facebook ID through which he used to talk to me is active now, it is understood that no one is using it at present. While leaving she told me wait for me at a certain time if not come back marry someone else. A lot of time has passed since the time she told me but I still haven’t heard from her. Now I don’t feel that enthusiasm anymore on Facebook even after trying so hard i couldn’t save that ID anymore. My ID is also deactivated. Now she may not be able to contact me even if she wants to but I know that she may not be alive anymore. I can easily assume that after training she had to go to the battlefield and she gave up at some point while fighting and her dead body fell somewhere unnoticed. Maybe even before death she tried to talk to me but couldn’t because she was far away from me. Thinking these things I close my eyes and my eyes are wet with tears. Maybe not all love reaches its destination, maybe this is one of them. But our love was sacred so I still respect it..When today’s generation starts abusing this Facebook and indulges in obscenity, then it seems to be very difficult in my heart. In fact, I thought this Facebook was the temple of my love, where I would find peace. I know today’s generation will laugh when they hear that Facebook can be a temple of love but they never went through that emotion and it’s not possible for them to go. Now I only think that if I had left that day, maybe my life would have been different today, maybe many more stories would have been connected to my life or many stories would have never come in my life. I have not been active on social networking sites for a long time and now I want to stay away from them. I just think that there will be a little memory in my mind and I will live by it.. Maybe as she said, many things will change with time and a new life partner will come in life. But I will never forget that name. And that name was Lu…..
