When Perfect turns Im- Perfect!

It's a wonder she can't get sleep, after all it's pretty late to be up! Is it cause she's turning a year older? Is it cause life seems to be braking at full speed and only the screeches can be heard? Gee Life did seem fun when she wasn't alone! Like a lone star, she sits atop a rock, She gazes into the unforeseen, the wind gently blowing trying to see if it could take all her worries with it! Her heart seems heavy? Why was this happening? She doesn't know whether to cry or smile! Just as if to answer her doubt, tears gush down her cheek! Was this her way of unburdening her heart? Maybe! Would things have been different, if she had made choices which she probably was too scared to make? Was it worth trying? Cause she has learnt if it's worth keeping, it's worth trying! She looks up at the sky, smiles and winks! She's told her secrets to the one she's always ran to when she's happy and when she's sad! It's strange! At times, things which don't exist make you happy for reasons you've wished for!

The Class which sets every Indian Woman apart!

The evergreen attire which makes every Indian woman look as the most graceful woman on the planet. It's so hard to drape (atleast for me- IT IS!) and it's so hard to tell which material makes you look fat! It's so hard to get that right consistency of everything in a bowl - When draping a saree is your task! It's so hard to decide on the accompaniments with it! It could be a daunting task at times, but then it's all worth it at the end! I remember cribbing to a friend of what a disaster I was going to look like in a saree! And his reply was so simply wonderful! He said, "The saree is the most sexiest attire on the planet and you know you can't deny it!" I really couldn't, Iv had an overdose of draping sarees over the past one month that I can say that if I - A clumsy plain Jane looked wonderfully different, something not every attire makes me look! Then the Award for the most convincingly, wonderfully designed attire had to go to the Saree! It makes you feel like a Woman of Substance after all!

Promises!

Sitting at the airport, waiting for my flight out of Bangalore to attend my favouritest Achacha's wedding. It's hard not to think about what a marriage is all about! I think about that promise the bride and the groom make, the "... patient in sickness, comforting in sorrow... to love you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles faced..." The little poem I penned down was such a refreshing change from that, It went along the lines of, "I can't promise you perfection cause that is not who I am! I can't promise you forever cause I don't hold fate within my hands! I can't promise you the sunshine cause I know there will be rain! I can't promise you complete happiness cause with true love comes pain! I can't promise to always smile cause Life always has a way to make me cry! I can't promise to stand strong cause it's never too easy to want to give life another try!" If you can't promise I wonder what a marriage is made up of, something I'll know in years to come!

When you just can't live without asking for some more!

Holidays for a weekend or a week or a fortnight or for a month always makes you want to ask for that little more! When you bid your family good bye, you wish you could stay for just a little more! When you sit with a friend at the airport waiting for the flight, you wish you could stay for just that little more! When you go to KFC, you just want that one more packet of pop corn! When you bid farewell when you graduate you wish you could stay just once more and relive those days! If ever Life didn't make you want for that one more chance and just gave it to you, we would never have realised the worth of that one extra chance! We would have never learnt to let go! But that's what Life is about - No extra chances!

Congratulations!

Celebrations are a part of life and one such event is a Marriage, everyone turns up for it! What can I say, I miss the night before the wedding! I catch a flight on the wedding day! I forgot to take the speech/ toast I wrote for my favouritest cousin (Note the emphasis)! This was the make shift speech I penned down in the airport which I never read out on the wedding day! Our family is very glad you have made your way into Anoop's life, Rinu because it is clear you two are made for each other. Achacha is the kind of brother everyone should have. He is adventurous always and we like that about him! His humour can get you up from the dumps in no time! I have learnt a lot from Achacha so I can say this confidently, Chechi - He's a keeper and I know Achacha is lucky to have found someone like you. Achacha and Chechi, your friends and family are here today because your happiness means a lot to us and I hope you see many years of Happiness together. Thank you!