The Kind of Nothing That Meant Everything

These days, love is a game of surprises and saying “I love you”, and “I love you too”. Love is not what can be expressed in words or with surprises & expensive gifts. Love is a special feeling, a blind faith. It should be felt by both sides, individually, for each other. It should not be forced. Love can never happen through the brain, it happens just like that, without a warning. All the greatest love stories are between strangers. Whatever happened between them, how and where, explains how today too, humanity and love exist in this beautiful world.

Shubham Kumar is the author of “The Kind of Nothing That Meant Everything”, and a new entry in the writers’ community. He is an army brat, lived in North Indian cities, from Punjab to Assam, for most of his childhood. He graduated from Dr D Y Patil Arts, Commerce & Science College, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. He’d never imagined being a writer until he failed to graduate in 2015. He got the idea of this story during a train journey, when , while travelling alone, met with an Army personnel doing relief work for the Himalayan Tsunami in Uttarakhand. He’d never thought about being a writer. But after losing all hope, he did what he believed in. Thinking beyond a particular genre, he penned something that evoked him less as an individual & more as human. A self-proclaimed eccentric, he loves to play chess and travel.