The Corona Love : Is love a Disease?

Shailesh Kumar Sahu
3 min readApr 16, 2020
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Well if you have landed here intentionally then that’s good. If accidentally then that’s better. Come on who wouldn’t want lovely people like you here. But keeping my flirtatious talks apart, if you are here by mistake please go read the previous part. So, it has been exactly 20 days since the last part and there’s a lot to tell you. This story is about two nerds who never had been in love before. Did the last sentence make you lose interest? No offense taken!!! This wasn’t for entertainment purposes ever in the first place. So, Bye. Nooooo please stay. I want you. This story wants itself to be read.

We aren’t using names anywhere. Because in this story there are only two characters. So, simply a boy and a girl. As we dive deeper into the story, we need to know more about the habits of our two little lovebirds. For the sake of making the story interesting, I told you that this is their first love. But the boy was already in love with someone else. Actually not someone but something else. It was computers and the whole world involved around it. While the girl had some past due to which she made some walls around it. The walls which kept all the love-like emotions away. The walls which prevented her from stepping out in this cruelly wonderful world. The boy was nocturnal owl whereas the girl loved sleeping at night. Both were so opposite and amazingly intertwined in their own world. This arises a very big question. Yes, you are right! What triggered them.

The second lock-down is announced on 14 April and it’s going to be till 3rd May. Aw-snap! More time. wait but we are here for a happy love story. What had been an affection till now became more of love now. The girl for the first time found someone she could trust. Believe me, the harder part is played by the girl. That fear of getting hurt. That constant worry about something bad might happen. Well, the high Intelligence Quotient doesn’t guarantee high emotional quotient. The boy was confident and wanted to move ahead with their relationship. Both were changing. Yes! both were changing a little bit and completely unaware of that. The girl who was always asleep till midnight was awake till 4:00 A.M. The boy which avoided typing on phone was always keeping his hands on the phone to type something.

The questions which they started asking become more on the random yet interesting topics. The one which people would call a little bit kinky. They never had been so comfortable talking to someone before. They also started talking on voice calls. You are not forgetting that this is the lock-down period right? So, talking while not letting anyone know at home was something new and adventurous for both of them. Awww how sweet!! Right? But don’t get carried away easily. The bigger question is still here.

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Were they really in love or this so much availability of time twisted their brain? Well everyone is not affected directly by corona. Lots of people have taken some psychological damage also. Are those changes in their lifestyle just symptom of this disease called love. Is love really a disease. If yes then which one is more chronic. Corona or Love? Let’s hope for the best and keep your fingers crossed for the next edition of the story.

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