Tête-à-Tête

Quite a few times in my Tete-a-tete with God, I keep telling him,

Not all the experiences that he keeps giving me are needed.

I AM a better person without them too.

Those experiences only tend to take me down as a person rather than improve me.
But God just doesn't seem to listen!!

What to do?!?!?

Do you believe that all the experiences we go through throughout life, are needed?

Share it with me.

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Unexpected Conversations

Love can be expressed in such various emotions, It never ever ceases to surprise me.

On my way back home from work today, a colleague happened to mention something about guests coming over at his place & how he wished he had been home.

Then after a pause of a few minutes, he started how glad he was that his wife was there to take care of everything. He went on to add that how his wife did everything with such warmth & not becoz she has to.

In acknowledgement, I didn't feel like interrupting this heartful chat he was on upon then.. only added that he was a lucky person.

His immediate reply turning full 90 degrees me WITH the seatbelt, & saying "Yes, I am a very lucky person "; gave me such a smug feeling, that my appreciation for this guy was suddenly born.

Suddenly born becoz, he was always a colleague with whom I shared a cab. A sparingly English speaking..or rather a pure Telugu speaking guy, we hardly interacted much on our way.

But when he said, "Indeed I am very lucky. She takes care of everything..right from my tiffin box to the kids homework to this pressed shirt [pointing at his shirt] that I wear daily at work. I don't have to worry for anything happening at home."

I was really glad. I'd never thought about him... but if I would've been asked to, I would never have imagined him talking thus. He being from a lil orthodox background & roots deep in rural Andhra.

So while I was hearing him, I thought to myself as well, "its such a contented feeling to be loved such by your partner. Lucky are those people who get so appreciated & valued in a relation." He didn't mention what all she was doing... he actually mentioned what he was not doing.

He then added, "Right from taking care the impromptu guests which keep pouring in his home, to taking care of the children while they are ill, she handles every other need which suddenly comes up.. she is a very patient person."

He took me down his memory lane by telling me how he'd never even seen her till the day of the wedding.. how he'd not known anything about her & how his wife who hailed from a village, still settled in well, within his family & took such good care of them.

I think more than being with the guests he missed his wife then, & what he spoke was out of a deep care for her.
Listening to him was such a pleasant thing, that got me like, 'Lucky She!! '

But what I mostly felt was, If I'm to find a guy like this, I'd count myself damned lucky!

At the end of the day, dosen't matter if you speak a smatter of fluent English or speak the language modestly. Its how you convey that's important.

It even doesn't matter if you wear the best of clothes & have the best of appreciations from colleagues...

At the end of the day if you return home to someone who cares for you as much as you'd wish S/He to,

Life's Blissed.

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Faith & Hope

Increased visits to the temples...
Often helping the needy,
Few times resorting to the various future predictors to get a solution..
& at all times following all the superstitions which we trust to bring good luck & blessings... defying our own rules against them in the bargain;
When life seems to be at the crossroads, the soul in every way gets on its knees for blessings, for garnering wishes.
Hoping & wishing that something somewhere may work & someone's blessing may be granted & the wish gets fulfilled.

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