The Story of a BOY & a GAL – Larry & Ray

"When it hurts to look back and Ray is scared to look ahead; She looks beside and finds that you have always been there ...It’s you -Larry"....This story takes us back to 2001, somewhere in October when Masters in Business Administration classes began for Ray. As usual, like all children in hostel, Ray was homesick, new place, changing environment and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from home as her parents were posted in Florida...Since her name started with "R" so her roll call came late with all unknown faces and culture. Accounts and the Balance sheet giving all mismatched debits/credits!! They had to work in batches of two for assignments & her Roll call was 23.There was some problem in her assignment but she had a huge crush on the Accounts Professor, hehhee, so pointless to say that she did not want to make mistakes...Suddenly someone approached her and corrected her Balance sheet...It was late that evening and she had to go to the hostel as all her friends were waiting...After she winded up light went off in the room and it was dark in the corridors and all the guys started to scream and shout and she was little scared...Suddenly she heard the same person say, come lets go out and she said-‘ I am afraid of dark’. He said don’t worry, follow me and she slowly followed his footsteps...She never knew that this was the beginning of a new story -Story of a GAL & Boy....(Larry & Ray)....She then came to know this 6ft 2" guy was LARRY...He was sober and down to earth, quiet by nature....

On one hand where Ray was a chatterbox, very naughty, stubborn and sensitive Larry was quiet,      practical and a Man of Principles. People say opposite poles attract and so was nature trying to do-bringing Larry and Ray closer. It was 14^th April 2002, Larry’s birthday and Larry wanted Ray to join him.

There was chaos in the hostel as Ray had rejected Larry’s invitation of joining him on his birthday and after a lot of discussion she had to agree. People say ‘First Date’ is something one would never forget in life and so was 14^th April 2002 for her. Scared, suspicious to talk with loads of hesitation in mind, the evening started to take off but as night creeped in, Ray soon realized that she had got a great friend on whom she could rely on for life long.

The thin line between ‘Friendship & Love’ was soon crossed and in 2003, they realised it was time to be serious about a few things in life –the PRESENCE of the other person. It is said that you feel that you are in love with someone, when ‘YOU ARE SCARED OF LOOSING THE PERSON’. It human natures not to accept things at one go and so was with Larry & Ray. It always you’re surrounding which is sure when two people are in love except for the ‘TWO’.

Larry stayed in Montgomery, which was near to the college and used to frequently visit his hometown whilst Ray was used to hostel life. With time, maturity creeped in and it was time to struggle for SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST...With love in life, came hopes and with hope; dreams were woven and in the house of dreams lived the RIVAL of LIFE – DESTINY coz Masters were getting over and it was time to say goodbye with everything left on destiny.

It’s always said ‘Where there is a will there is a Way and as time passed destiny started playing games with Larry & Ray making them work in not only the same field but also location. It was ‘STABILITY’ which was the need of the hour and with friend’s and relatives poking here and then for Wedding Bells. One very important thing was that Larry & Ray came from different culture and moral values, so loads of uncertainty in what was stored for them in future. Larry & Ray knew that the storm can any time separate them and that was the time when Love was losing the battle and there was hue and cry. Larry thought it was time to move out, so he moved to London for better opportunity and forget Ray whilst Ray was still not able to figure out how life was treating her. After every storm there is still breeze, and friends its love and only love which keeps the hope alive. London was new for Larry but the feeling of carrying a Broken Heart was deep buried inside him. Soon Ray realised that God has his own signals to show a ray of light and she thought that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings and Ray decided to quit everything but to live for the ‘MAN OF HER LIFE –Larry’. When you want something the universe conspires to help you achieve it and Ray with every hope of life decided to live happily for love.

Friends, Leobond believes that all of us have Larry & Ray inside us, so listen to your heart as where the heart is, you will find your greatest pleasure.

So lets all of us together spread the message of this Divine & Sacred feeling of Love...

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you....:)

Cheers,