And its 13… Really… 13 years of Being Married.. The Jinx is now officially Broken..

As a customary blog which I write few times a year when I have the freedom of Expression, here comes the day. Today on our 14th Wedding Anniversary…

Kinjal may have been worried about what I would write as it always comes across as a surprise to her.. but here I can tell her not to be worried because I would just be my usual self. I may have been silently warned not to write anything embarrassing today, and I will try, but it is hard to break the habit of a lifetime.

Many things have changed over the last 13 years for all of us. In those early years all you needed to communicate was an STD – PCO phone booth.. Mobiles were just coming in India… Not everyone’s cup of tea.

I think the greatest change in our lifestyle has been in communication. Over long distances it was by Phone calls at night which would cost less due to lower rates of calling.

Then there came mobile phones – 16 Rs per Minute for Incoming calls in 2001.. How long can you really talk with your fiancée in those days. ? The shortest and sweetest communications of those times.

And then everyone else knows the communication revolution…. Mobile phones, and now Whatsapp.. The areas of Arguments have now increased and its more written… J

Being married for 13 years allows a couple to develop the art of misunderstanding one another. I think that I have had the best of the bargain during our marriage, because I have to admit to some shortcomings – I know everyone will think – men don’t have shortcomings –

One of them is my lack of dress sense, and co-ordination resulting in the odd wardrobe malfunction, and I do mean odd. Many times when we have been ready to go out she has said “You aren’t really going out like that, are you?” and I have had to change.

Those of you who have looked at our wedding photograph album might have noticed maojr changes in our appearance. I have gradually increased the waistline, due to being well looked after, and not at all as a result of the lack of exercise! I find it funny when Kinjal catches me tucking in my stomach. “It’s no use doing that,” she said, “it doesn’t make any difference”.

As we get older we tend to have ‘senior moments’ and I am no exception. I don’t often have a loss of memory, in fact I can’t remember the last time I forgot something. But one thing for sure… As we go along this path of 4 C, (confusions, contrasts, communication-gaps and controversies,) .. I also love the other 4 C (Care, Comfort, Craziness and Compassion)…

Cheers to us for having entered the last year of the VANVAS…and once we cross 14 years then everything else becomes immaterial…..

God bless. !