To Eternity and beyond....

Today I am celebrating 4 years of togetherness with my husband. It is a very strange feeling, something when I think about; I get butterflies in my stomach and the feeling as if time has stopped in its endless flight. The times we shared as friends and then as a married couple, the conversations, the big and the small moments are still so fresh in my memory as if everything just happened in one day- yesterday.

Today, a line from one of my favourite movies, (used very frequently by my husband to convince me for an early marriage) has become all the more relevant and significant and makes me realize how God has His own way of making you understand certain things only at a certain time. The line is from the movie – “When Harry Met Sally” and goes like this- “when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” And I am glad I didn’t wait for a couple of more years to get married to this wonderful man and an amazing husband.

It’s not that these years have been a bed of roses and we didn’t have our rough patches to ride on; but just knowing that even in the direst circumstances, the other person will be around, was eventually the most (and still is) comforting factor.

We have differences. And not just trifle ones; major ones- issues on which we are poles apart and will never share a common opinion, issues which challenge our existence together, but (and a very important but) we both know that we can’t imagine our lives without the physical presence of each other. This keeps us together and binds us for the rest of our lives.

I always thought that I will love him till the time I take my last breath but I was wrong, I will love him to eternity and beyond…

Thought for the Mood
“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”
(And I need to remind this to myself everyday, especially when we have differences.)

“What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.”
(I have actually never bothered about hiding any of my negative traits, I am what I really am, and this makes me really comfortable.)