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s a teenager, I’ve always felt lonely while looking at
people holding hands and in each other’s embrace,
Aand so I believed that I didn’t know what love was.
But maybe love wasn’t so hard.
Love is just simple, as simple as when your grandmom
makes you biriyani cause she knows you’re coming over or
when your grandad hides a 100 rupee note in your palm; it
can simply just be your mom’s scent as she holds you or your
dad mending your wounds as he scolds you for falling down
or the extra packet of kurkure in your brother’s hand or your
cat purring into your lap or the squeaky sounds of shoes on
the dance floor.

Maybe, I knew what love was all along when my uncles took
me to the park or when they gave me what seemed like boring
advices or when kids made me birthday cards or it was that
smile of relief seeing my friends when I walk into the class or
making myself maggi while putting on Netflix as I relax.
So maybe, just maybe, love can be anything and everything
and maybe, I don’t have to look for it everywhere. Maybe I
just have to look a bit closer.

Shaziya Nihar Sait 145
I BSc Psychology