When the Rain Brought You to Me
Two Strangers, One Rainy Evening, and a Love Story That Changed Everything Satish had always believed that life moved in straight lines. Study well. Get a good job. Earn enough money. Make your parents proud. Settle down someday. Love, according to him, was never part of the plan. At twenty-seven, he lived in Bengaluru and worked as a software engineer in a large IT company. His days were painfully repetitive, waking up late after snoozing alarms five times, rushing through traffic, staring at code for endless hours, eating cafeteria food that tasted exactly the same every day, and returning home exhausted. His friends often joked that he lived like a robot. Maybe they were right. Satish had become emotionally distant over the years. He had once been cheerful and outgoing during college, but heartbreak and responsibilities slowly changed him. After his father’s business failed, he became the man of the house overnight. Dreams were replaced with duties. He stopped expecting happiness fr...