Blessed

I feel blessed to have so many great friends. this isnt just a 'friendship day realization'. i have always been lucky to have the nicest friends and perhaps that is why my life is so beautiful today. my friends are my true lifeline and i just dont know what i'd ever do without them.

i've also been one of the few very lucky ones to have had one best friend since the time i was 7. i know of a lot of people who've had like 10 best friends...each at a different stage of life and then forgotten about! i also know of best friends who used to be close once upon a time but only stay in touch via emails now. there really r very few people like me who have had that one best friend for 19 years, with whom the equation hasnt changed one bit! what i would ever do without her!

while i have one best friend, i have some very very close friends too. they are equally important to me. but at this point i must mention why i feel so blessed today. there are not one, but three people who consider me to be their best friends. a best friend is a prized title and i feel so fortunate to have three of those! the other day someone asked me what my talent was and i said it was being a good friend. i think thats true, for a friend is someone who comforts u and is there for u. and that, i surely am! i am so happy that i can make these wonderful people feel special and love them the way they love me.

so here's to friendship, friends and JOY!

this or that?

while travelling by a bus this morning, i saw a mentally challenged boy. he was sitting with his mother and perhaps travelling to some place which....did he even know where?

i was sitting just opposite to him and hence got to observe him for a long time. and though it was a bit disturbing to see such a cute young boy challenged, it was also a wonderful experience observing him.

he seemed so happy, so carefree. he laughed at everything, smiled at everyone and just did what his heart pleased. it made me wonder if he lived in a better world. while on one hand, he surely has to go through a lot of hardships, he also has been blessed to remain ignorant of the worldly worries that plague the rest of us. he is so oblivious to the stares, the whispers and (unfortunately, or annoyingly so) the taunts that always accompany him. it made me wonder if he was happier than all of us were?

and that was when it struck me...who decides what's good and what's bad? what if we are just accustomed to believing that we are the best. who has ever told us that the mentally challenged world isnt perfect and ours is? what if its the other way round?

i dont have answers to these questions, but just sitting there and looking at the boy and occassionally reciprocating his smiles and waves made my day. it was such a beautiful thing. sad that he is different, but great that he is - it gives him a life that we only read of in fairytales. god bless him forever and ever :)

Hats off

With weird marriage proposals coming my way now, I was so happy yesterday when I heard about a girl and how she dealt with similar situations. I dont know who she is, i dont even know her name...but I've become her fan. if she reads this post somewhere, somehow, i want her to know that she is officially my role model now n i bow to her!!

so this is what happened:

the guy is a relative. they have been looking for a match for him. now they heard of this girl and approached the family. the guy was then told that the girl would initially communicate thru email and then take things forward. so he mailed her (or his father did, i'm not sure). the girl replied. her reply was just an orkut friend request. she mentioned that she was a bit busy and didnt have the time to write stuff abt herself, so they shud chk her profile, where everything they needed to know was there.

so the guy (and his parents!) log on to orkut to see the profile. the display pic was of a girl wearing a brown leather jacket, huge sunglasses, a bandana and she was kinda sitting on a bike. for his conservative parents, that was the 1st jhatka!!

then, the profile sed nothing much, but there was an album. so they opened the album and wat they fond?? they found tons of snaps of "her". there were snaps of her toe nail, her hairs' split ends, her acne, her elbow and a close up of her teeth!!!!!

at this point, the parents literally fell off their chairs!! LOL!! so the guy, gauging the situation, mailed her back n extremely politely said that he wasn't interested.

u thot that was the end of it?? well, the guy thot so too. but he opened his mail box a while later n saw that the girl had replied...n her reply was "AS IF I CARE"!! hahahaha

this was just such a great slap on the face of everyone who forcefully tried to get her married off or put any pressure on her watsoever. i just loved her guts n the manner in which she dealt with it. n this really makes me wanna try it out too. wish i get to do it. just once! :D

Going Shopping with Daddy

I'm going show shopping with daddy! its been a long time since he bought me something. ever since i began working, i've insisted on paying my own bills and (proudly so) have stuck to it.

but now things r a bit different. i'm on living on a shoe string budget and buying anything, let alone shoes, is quite out of the question. i've been saving up for a trip and hence have voluntarily sealed off my bank account. so i have a paltry some of a couple of thousand rupees to spend each month.

anyway, getting back to my shoe shopping, before u say anything, i'm going to buy basic shoes....the ones i need for everyday use. not gonna take advantage of my dad's spoiling spree! hehe! so good i am :P

I Miss

I miss going out on dates. its been so long that i've been on a date. those simple, silly ones. where u just meet up n go have coffee or take hand-in-hand walks n then he drops you home. those silly movie dates where u just giggle thru the entire movie, the ice-cream afterwards.

i miss getting all excited n dressing up for the date. i miss spending hours in front of the mirror deciding wat to wear. i just miss.....

GOSH!! i havent been on a date for sooooo long!! :(