For all my life I always wanted to see the Eiffel Tower, I wanted to plunge into the picturesque horizon of the beautiful city, I wanted to smell its aroma and feel it within me. I always wanted to do that, for all my life. Having read of the deep and enthusiastic mysteries of this great city, my love for Paris grew with every passing moment. I felt in love with the place. The Seine river which gives the city a beautiful and romantic dusky hue, Montparnasse which makes you feel like you are part of a movie, Faubourg Saint-Honoré which is the fashion district and also home to some of the biggest fashion brands in the industry and many more other places which can skip your heart beat. But the most elusive place was the Eiffel tower. It is magnetic, charismatic and mind boggling.
One fine evening, I was totally unaware of the fact where I was heading to. I was busy with my chores as usual and had no idea what my life was going to bestow upon me. Sometimes it happens that you leave behind all your dreams from the fairyland and chase your life so spontaneously that you even forget where are you and what are you here for. But then, destiny has its own way of knocking you up (and sometimes down too) to make you realize the beauty of life, the beauty of the world. Only a few weeks in the city and I was forlorn of the fact that I was probably in the 4th greatest place in the world (I ranked it after NY, London and Switzerland). But this was going to lame upon me for only a while. I was busy talking about the meetings for the next day, planning to cover my work as fast as I could and walking fastly only over the lane when my leg hit the footpath across the street. I strangled for a moment and when I got a control of myself, I lifted my head. And what did I see, the glorious and ever shining Eiffel Tower in front of me. I was not even aware that I was in the same city.
Life's hard cores had totally drowned my wishes and dreams. But the mere look of that fabulous piece of art sent a quivering current all throughout my body as if it was an alarming call to my soul. I never felt so magical and heavenly. I never felt so powerful and relieved. It was by far the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me. Sometimes, you plan all throughout your life to achieve a particular thing. You give it your best bet, you get your part of failures and sometimes you even think of giving up. Sometimes you even do. But time has its own plan for you, like it had for me. Seeing the most beautiful thing in the world known to me, I was mesmerized and a few drops oozed down my cheeks for unknown reasons. I was more than contented only at the look of it. For years to come I was going to cherish this evening. It was 'the evening of my life'.
