Yes! Yes! Yes!
This is to announce that finally I am tying the knot.
Thanks for being a supportive reader of my rambling blogs. And I promise to share all that I publicly can (or, anonymously) :)
Tomorrow is that special day and needless to mention the graph of my excitement level as the hours are passing by.
Being a scorpio-sign, I confess I kept it more secretive than USA's conspiracy behind oil- pricing. I am blushing but confess that I didn't share this with anyone except my parents and I have their blessings.
I plan to wear my favorite red dress. Mom says that red suits me the most and traditionally, red is the luckiest color too.
The proceedings are simple. I just have to be at the Marriage Registrar's office by 4:15, sign papers, click photos and get video-taped as a part of legal proceedings.
Thats it!
Am I nervous? A bit!
Am I happy? Super Yes!
Am I getting married? No!
Oops!
Life, as I always say (through my various silly poems, examples, experience-sharing) is the most illogical, non-fictional piece of fiction that is so hard to digest that you cant puke.
You meet weird people in weirder ways and end up doing such weirdest things that you doubt if that was really you in the story.
Well this story is something of this sort today.
A woman in the meditation group shared that a couple in love came to Hong Kong to get married when at the last moment the person to sign as the witness before the Celebrant couldn't make it (So the marriage is in ruins before they could ruin it) and they desperately need someone to help them over.
No surprises... I offered to help.
I don't know who they are, how they are or whether they really are what they are.
But when I walked upto them from a crowd of 30 people to volunteer, the spark in those two pairs of eyes said it all. I have never been thanked so warmly that I felt uplifted sitting at the yoga mats.
It is so beautiful to become such amazing part of life for complete strangers.
I never knew if such a wretched person like me would ever be of use to anyone. I am so proud of my life being put to use, to my life making me stand at that particular time when someone really needed help and I becoming a reason of joy to anyone.
I really hope they are genuine people and stay together happily ever after.
And yes, since I am tying the couple's hands together as part of the ceremony, I am gonna boast to (have acted) be a lawful Brahmin! Yoohoo!!
P.S. So, I am tying the knot. Literally!P.P.S. Or should I say- I am tying a knot!
As our sages remarked:
ReplyDeleteयदेतद्धृदयं तव
तदस्तु हृदयं मम ।
यदिदं हृदयं मम
तदस्तु हृदयं तव ॥
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
ReplyDelete― Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
ReplyDeleteis a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.