Once I had a big crush on someone, who lived in Mulund, while I lived in Malabar Hill and well, after two dates, it didn’t work out and I cried to God saying, ‘why, God why? I was almost in love and why did you do this to me?’ So God sent me to Mulund for a shoot and on my way back, I was stuck in the traffic for two hours and I could hear God telling me “Look, you little whiny idiot, I do what I do for a reason, it would have never worked out between the two of you eventually, you are just too lazy and spoilt to travel to Mulund, so I saved you a heart break.”
Once I had a big crush on someone, who lived in Mulund, while I lived in Malabar Hill and well, after two dates, it didn’t work out and I cried to God saying, ‘why, God why? I was almost in love and why did you do this to me?’ So God sent me to Mulund for a shoot and on my way back, I was stuck in the traffic for two hours and I could hear God telling me “Look, you little whiny idiot, I do what I do for a reason, it would have never worked out between the two of you eventually, you are just too lazy and spoilt to travel to Mulund, so I saved you a heart break.”
So it made me think, as much as we believe ‘love conquers all’, does it really? Does love conquer the Mumbai traffic? Well, maybe for some but for most of us mortals, traffic is a beast that beats love (feels horrible to say it but unfortunately, it’s mostly true). Try living in town and dating someone, say in Bhayandar. No matter how much the “love” or lust or whatever you have, you’ll never drive from Babulnath to Borivali for a burger date. Nah that ain’t happening, you will always want the other person to come to town ...It's love inconvenient for practical reason.
I think our dating pool in the city is restricted to a 45 minutes driving distance, okay, maybe we stretch it to one hour if the person is really amazing (and one hour including traffic) but it is tremendously difficult to maintain a relationship when you are driving two hours a day after work to meet the person you are dating. We all read in the ancient epic love stories how the lovers were kept apart by the land and sea and would cross seas to see each other. Well, that was back then, I guess, their love was stronger than ours and I guess it was desperate times back then (and I’m guessing there was no Tinder or Grindr to find someone nearby) so they had to find the one in faraway lands and love conquered all blah blah but try living in Bombay in today’s world. Even though there’s no sea in between us (unless your lover lives in new Bombay in that case, it’s any way a long distance relationship) there’s no way a relationship can sustain the distance. You are more likely to have a successful relationship with people within a closer address to yours.
It seems to me that this distance thing, it’s like the universe has somehow managed to figure out a test for your love, if you can beat the peak hour traffic and come to see me every day then I guess you love me enough but most of the people I know are totally failing at the test.
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