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Like you came with no return ticket

I wanted you like...

..like you came with no return ticket, and I wanted you like you came with no expiry.

I've seen the world and met people and heard their stories and I always wonder how businesses and capitalism and all around it works on Love.

Expensive flight tickets, that weekend stay-cation, an extension of Visa and everything around it...it is all driven by Love. If people didn't wanna make people happy or be there and stay in life, it would have been so different. Whether it be flight tickets or doctor's appointments, hotel bookings or online shopping...you will find yourself always overpaying because the reason is Love. the anomaly of prices and markets is explained by only one thing...and they thought it could be explained by technical charts.

We know that .

I met this girl in Moldova who was taking a 1 am bus in snow laden night because that was what she did. She was a Russian dating a Ukrainian and because of some army duty and region specific rules, the only way they could remain together in that territory was by passing border every fortnight. She giggled and chatted all night, telling stories of how she saved money at every transaction and then I saw her take the most expensive cab in the middle of the night to catch the bus that takes her to her boyfriend just in time. She was young and hopeful and I do hope it works out for them but it left me thinking that Love is actually what makes the world go round.

--Edit after I re-discovered by blog today, on July 6th, 2022. (Original written in December 2018)

Realizations:

1. Writing was and perhaps is my therapy. I found so many answers just reflecting on these- finding it back at the right time...

2. Little did I know, when I was writing this that Love was round the corner!


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