the story of eden

What makes a man fall in love with a woman? Are the reasons mostly physical or is it the need to be needed; is it the thrill of romance or the urge to conquer? Well people have thought of million reasons…but here’s a story which will tell you why.

They had it all wrong. God didn’t banish Adam and Eve from Eden. He hid Eden in a place they would never find it -Inside a woman’s mind. Since most men believe that women don’t have a mind of their own, and that they had even convinced women about the veracity of this fact...Eden was safe from being discovered.

Eden lies in the northwest corner of woman’s mind. In fact if you ever get to see a map of her mind you will see that in one of the corners there is a big brick wall. Of course the wall is covered with creepers with pleasant honeysuckle blossoms...but it’s still intimidating.

Let’s not blame the men. Most of the women themselves are unaware of its existence. Of course they know the brick wall...and that’s where they loiter around when they claim they were daydreaming…what lies behind it..they don't dare to even hazard a guess..women are cautious creatures!

Now this place inside her head makes her act illogical, unreasonable and oh soooo mysterious. Because in the garden of Eden, the logical, the hypothetical, the illogical and the outright bizarre all merge playfully to form nice little pools of confusion. So next time you call women crazy...remember whats inside that brick wall.

Now just as Eden has crazy effects on a woman’s psyche…her secret longings and fears have altered Eden subtly as well.

But before we talk about that...lets tell you about how Eden looks like.

Now it’s not an easy job to describe Eden. In fact it’s quite impossible. It resembles Neverland in certain aspects…but is far more real and therefore a million times unreal.It’s very much like Las Vegas, Switzerland, the side lanes of Cairo and the smells of India all mixed up but in a nice way and far more exotic.

About that a woman’s mind affecting Eden…it depends on the woman per say. There is a woman whose Eden has “you’re beautiful” written in every nook and corner. She didn’t write it...but her longing was so strong that it magnetically altered what was inside the brick wall. Another Eden has red crayon scribbling all over. Nobody knows why.

So when a man meets a woman who likes him...she smiles at him and in her eyes he sees that honeysuckle covered wall…the nightingales chirping from the other side and is lured by the mysteries beyond the red wall.
He doesn’t know what it is…but he wants it. So he pursues her. Of course it helps that she is warm, cuddly and can cook.

So they fall in love and get married...and he thinks that finally he can enter the garden
Of course no man is aware of it...its all subconscious.He thinks it's because she resembles his mom...duh!

After a while he gets to know that he can not only enter but he can’t even go near the wall…it irritates him. The mystery taunts him. He knows his wife escapes to play with the honeysuckle...and when she feels specially brave she peeps inside...and he it irks him that he can’t even go near!

And after some years of trying men usually give up and settle into indifferent marriages…accepting defeat. So most middle age men have hunched shoulders- a token of their silent defeat. Most women stop going near the wall as it irritates their husbands or they get caught up in the smells of the kitchen and laundry and have no time to smell the honeysuckle anymore. So most middle aged women look vexed.

But as long as a young woman’s eyes have the allure of the garden...guileless men will keep falling in love.