Airports have always made me uncomfortable. The rush, the chaos, the madness is something that I could never get along with. They say, hospitals walls hear the sincerest prayers and airports see the truest emotions. People hustling around have somehow always made me jittery.

She came to see me off at the airport. At the departure gates, she hugged me tight and whispered, "I wish we had met sooner." I don't know what came over me, I just couldn't resist kissing her. And the moment I did, a strange emotion crossed my heart, and momentarily i brushed it aside. I could see thousands of...