Its 14 years and still feels like yesterday… Happy Anniversary to my TOLERANT wife..!!!!

# Intolerance

The most talked about and used word in last couple of weeks in all conversations… Either on facebook or whatsapp or Twitter..  So now all of us know what INTOLERANCE means.. Well.. I am not going to talk about Intolerance.. I am going to talk about #Tolerance.. Why ?? Well.. It is our 14th Anniversary today and in retrospect, when I rewind the tapes of the last 14 years spent.. I can review the flashback images of what we were and what we are today.. and in that movie.. I see a big transformation.. in myself..  Changing, correcting and Improving..  YES.. I am the “NEW AND IMPROVED” .. an updated version .. As Apple updates the IOS every time, it gets better, the same is with me.. but then why  am I talking about TOLERANCE..!!!! I can see the tremendous amount of TOLERANCE that Kinjal has shown over the past years  (barring a few incidents where she has become INTOLERANT too ). 

1. To live with someone who was highly short tempered in 2001 and the temperament gradually reducing with time..

2. To live with someone who is so adamant to throw the clothes in the corner of the bedroom as it anyways need to go for washing..

3. To live with someone who travels at un-earthy hours and disturbs sleep with late arrivals or early departures.

4. To live with someone who doesn’t care much about the eating habbits (as the reports get normal )

5. To live with someone who spends a lot of time with gadgets while at home.. Just because he loves the gadgets…

And the list can go on and on but the Tolerance that has been shown by Kinjal is commendable and even though I don’t say this often, I know it is there.. On this 14th Anniversary… In the flashback, I can see myself, taking you for granted, as usual. I also realise that I don’t need an alert on my phone to remind me to express how grateful I am for all you do. I fear that I have fallen asleep on the comfortable couch of ingratitude. It’s an attitude some men wear like an old college T shirt which they refuse to throw away. Then, several times a year like those television advertisements in between the programs, I’ll suddenly take you out for shopping or make breakfast on Sundays. But gratitude isn’t a package in part. Right ? It’s not an emotion nor a routine. I think gratitude is the recognition of that everything you do and mentioned or not but must stay alive in my heart and subconscious.. Eyes open or closed, wide awake or playing game on ipad at your bedside, I can’t imagine a home in this world or the next that doesn’t have you in it. I don’t say it or live it enough: I’m grateful for the sacrifices you offer for me. They’re more immense than I understand. Frankly, even if I could, I’m not sure I’d have the words to articulate what they mean. I’m grateful for the way you teach Tanjal to study, to read, to lead, to follow, to pray. At the end, I’m not grateful for you, just because it’s our anniversary. I don’t cherish you just because an annual tradition of expression on my blog reminds me I should. I want to do all those things — and do them better — because it’s just another milestone in our Journey of life Cheers…