Traditional fairytales always tell us a story of a damsel in distress who is saved by a handsome hero and they fall in love and live happily ever after.
While some say these fantasies are outdated, it’s exactly how Nupur Gupta and her husband Attila Bosnyak met and ended up marrying.
In February 2019, Gupta was teaching at a yoga retreat in Goa, India and would go for a swim at the country’s famous beaches between her yoga practices.
Gupta was swimming and ended up getting caught in a current which started to pull her under.
“I tried to get out of the sea, but the water current was too strong,” she told Humans of Amsterdam. “Through the waves, I saw a man swimming up to me.”
“I recognized him. We were staying in the same yoga retreat. He reached out his hand, but every time our hands would touch, I got pulled back into the sea. Suddenly, I saw him drifting towards a big rock. That’s when I got scared. I thought I would get thrown towards the rock, and I started to swim in the opposite direction, but when I turned around, I saw the man was now standing on top of the rock waving.”
Bosnyak realized he didn’t have the strength to pull Gupta back to shore alone so he climbed up on the rock to catch the lifeguard’s attention.
The lifeguard was able to get Gupta back to the beach and Bosnyak swam from the rock back to shore where he realized he was bleeding.
“Especially my back and my thighs because of the scratches, and my fingers — because I’d tried to hold on to the rock,” Bosnyak told CNN.
It made Gupta’s heart “sink” to see that the man injured himself in order to save her.
So, she jogged to a nearby store to get him some disinfectant and chocolate ice cream while he rested on a sunbed.
She was greeted with a great big smile when she returned with ice cream in hand.
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“Something changed, for me, in that moment. There was a click in my heart somewhere,” Gupta said.
And Bosnyak felt it too.
“I think that was a magic moment,” he said.
Later that night they enjoyed dinner and getting to know each other.
Gupta had secretly wanted to spend some more time together when the retreat ended a day later.
“But to say it out loud or ask it out loud was also a bit… you have inhibitions,” she said.
Thankfully those inhibitions didn’t get in the way and the two postponed their returns by a week and spent Valentine’s Day together.
After their trip, she went back to Kerala and he to Amsterdam where they spent the next few months chatting on WhatsApp and video chat.
It wasn’t long before the two decided they couldn’t stay physically apart and wanted to try and give their relationship a real shot. They planned a trip to Dubai, which is between Europe and India, but that trip ended up having to be postponed since her mother needed surgery.
But Bosnyak decided he would fly out there to support her instead. During the trip they made a stop at Taj Mahal.
“While we sat there, he proposed to me. It wasn’t a marriage proposal but more of a love proposal. He said that he wanted to commit. It was super romantic. During that trip, he met my entire family, and I showed him where I grew up,” Gupta recalls.
She ended up moving to Amsterdam at the beginning of 2020 and then married the man who saved her life.
“When I still lived in India, I would sometimes cancel a date because I didn’t feel like traveling to the other side of town. Look at me now. I moved across the globe to be with the love of my life.”
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