Things I want from 'Us' if there is going to be an 'Us'

Isha Rathore
4 min readApr 9, 2022

-Respect: " she was a bitch! " "he was an idiot " I don't want us doing this to each other 2-3 months down the line, you with your best friend and me with some other guy whose a bigger idiot . I want us to sit in our mixed aesthetic living room some 30 years from now, and say "you're a bitch" and "you're an idiot" with a frown on our faces and our dog smiling at us, thinking to itself "they both are dumbos" I want respect where we may frown upon each other, get angry too, sometimes really angry maybe, but where we both will be the scarecrows of each other for the rest of the world.

- Time - I am not your Clocify, neither are you mine. I am not your boss who'll ask an account of 9 hours but spend ten minutes with me in a day if you can, ten minutes where idc if it's just being on the call and don't say anything if you don't want to or looking into our eyes or just kissing in the kitchen, ten minutes of ours where I am yours and you are mine and we happily forget the rest of the world. I want your time, a time where I can be by your side and feel like every day for ten minutes my dream has come true of having you in my life. Time where you feel lucky you got me. Time where we can create new ways of making love (I know what ur thinking but not that) and then making it bloom together.

- Trust - Told you I am not you're boss, turns out we are not each other's jailers either. So go ahead, smile at that girl and thank her for calling you sexy. Because let's accept it, it's a fact that you are fucking sexy, I so agree with her. And I am going to do the same if someone compliments me. Because we deserve it, we deserve adoration not just from each other but from the world too, we deserve to make connections apart from each other, we deserve to feel that we are excellent individuals and the confidence that comes from an opposite sex complimenting you is like chocolate cake, u don't mind having a piece and it gives a boost of dopamine. So take it, and let's never question each other. Let's have trust that is reflected in the way we talk to each other, behave around each other and be proud that we both are freaking hot, as a couple nd individually too.

- Individuality: I know we are probably poles apart, but time and again we find things that are so similar between us, while we offer a portal of contrast in each other's lives, these simpler things that are common between us, the music we like, long walks we prefer, dull lights in the night and how we both prefer each other a little more in glasses, these simpler things are like thin strings of satin that hold the differences in our worlds together. I want an individuality in the relationship where both are the little princes of our own little planets and we never dilute ourselves. We want us to work out a way of eating red meat and dosas together while debating about black hole theories. The way you are and the way I am is already perfect and I love us and I want us to keep growing around each other not in each other's shadows.

- Never running away- Yes, Tom and Jerry is superfun but only on TV Maybe somedays we will unknowingly imbibe those characters in real life too, we ll run away from each other or somebody will keep chasing the other and for sometimes it's okay, I accept life can't be a constant fairytale. But I want us to take turns at being the Tom, on your bad days let's me pick u up like Johny Test's dog does and on mine, you pick me up and kiss me on the forehead like you usually do. Yes, u are my favorite cartoon. But promise me, no one ever runs away from the show, and leaves the other behind.

- No games - Achieve your goals or take a break and sit at home. Whatever it is, we ll work it out. Some days will be rough yes, but I want us to remember it's us against the problem and not us against each other. It's great when you do great in life and it ll be great if I do superb too, but let's be each other's cheerleaders not some snobbish opponent. I want you to be my best friend and I ll make you believe that I am on your team, was and will be forever. A friendship with no jealousy, no possession, no games. Just you and me, in multi player mode in our Vcop2 for life.

- Love - Be with me and create a 'Us' only if you believe that we have something so strong that nothing can come between it.

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Isha Rathore

Feeding daily on some thoughts, led by music, books and souls around.