My Life Partner = My First Date

Around two months back, I was just browsing through some websites casually. As I was looking around different sites, I happened to see her snap on a site. There were snaps taken from different angles. She was stunning. I fell for her on the first look. Went through her profile, her qualities were just too good to ignore. I soon realized she is not just an ordinary lady and it is not that easy to get her. So I convinced myself to look out for some one else and let go away this one. Went through other profiles to find some other companion. Found few attractive ones, but not as good as the one I found first. Did find few who were more attractive, but I felt they were not for first timers. They can be handled only by those who have been doing this for some time now. I am still an amateur and very new to this. So thought they are not good for me. Even as I was going through these profiles, the first one's lovely body kept striking me again and again. I just couldn't get her image out of my mind. Decided to go for her, but not before I contacted my friends to inquire about her and her characteristics. She was still new to the business, so there were not many who had actually gone out with her. But there were who had gone out with her family, took their advice. As I told before she is not that easily accessible, had to wait for more than a week to meet her. Finally the day came, last Saturday I met her. Yes she was in my arms. We had dinner together and then bought her to my home. I had never expected I will ever spend time with such a lovely person. We both had most amazing time together. The fact is, she didn’t come just for one date, but came to stay with me for the rest of my life. :-) Yes, I chose her as my life partner

I have been talking so long about the lady who came into my life few days back. She is none other than my brand new ‘Canon Digital Rebel XSi with 18-55mm IS Lens’:-D. Yes guys, it was all about my new camera. Through this article I would like to thank everyone who helped me getting this camera. Mainly Madhu and dpreview.com who helped to chose which one to buy. This camera would have not reached me if Ravish hadn’t taken some pain to get it from the stores. Also wouldn’t have reached this safe all the way from US if Kiran hadn’t got it so carefully. Thank you guys. Now, I need to wait and watch how efficiently I will use this. Hope to learn using the manual mode quickly and make most of the camera.

LOVE!!!???

Wondering why this title?? Why so many '!' and '?' in front of Love? Well, I always had this 'doubt' , what actually love is and when do you know that you love someone? How do you know is it just crush or is she the one? Why do people say love is blind :P. How powerful is this love? I have been trying to find answer for all these for sometime now. But naaa couldn't find. Few days back my cousin got married, love marriage!!! First of its kind in our family, second manager level family(second manager means my grand father and family tree under him :D). Three cheers to her. Also in few days yet another movie based on love story 'Jaane tu ya jaane na' is about to release that has the tag line - So when do you know it's love? I thought its the right time to see if I find answers to atleast few of my questions about this 'LOVE'.

To find answers I started googling with the questions I had about love. I won't bore you by pointing to the sites which showed up. Just listing few interesting quotes I found :)
- "Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it".
- "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition"
- "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction".
There are hazaar sites that claimed to answer my questions. But believe me I couldn't find proper answer any of my questions. The search made the problem more complex than helping me to solve it. Read somewhere - when you are in love, you just know that you are in love. aaah what an answer!! Some sites had given some checkpoints to find out if something love or not. As I was looking through these sites, then suddenly as usual an inner voice came - "Dude, read about latest technologies and learn them or else will be thrown out of your company. Instead of that you are trying to find out what love is, plans to file disclosure on that or what??" After a while I realized that its crazy to read articles and find out what love is :). I decided not to crack my head on this now, will watch the movie 'Jaane tu...', may be that movie will "enlighten" me on love and when do you know it's love?

OK, for now let me just accept that people who fall in love do know that is 'real' love. So as next step they might decide to get married. I remember some one telling not even 50% of people who love get married. Out of many reasons for love failure, one is opposition from either or both of their family. Few do get marry, either by convincing or opposing them. From where do they get that energy, that power to oppose/convince parents? If you ask a middle aged man this question ,he would probably say "In our days it was not like this. I married the girl whom my parents chose for me. Child, there is nothing called love, the younger generation is the just getting influenced by the kind of movies that are coming. The movies are motivating them to take such decisions." I do agree that these days a lot of movies are based on love stories but won't agree that it is the reason for the increase in the percentage of love marriage. Not just in recent times, even lot of old movies revolve around around love. 8o% of the movies that are made are purely love stories. Remaining 20% will be based on love stories, but sometimes revolve around few other issues. At this point I wanted to point you to few such movies, songs..but I am in hurry to finish this blog :), so moving ahead. Not just movies even the ancient literatures were based on love stories. For instance, the story of Shakuntala-Dushyanta. There's was love at first sight. I am still trying to understand just love, so lets not talk about this "love at first sight". I don't think they even asked their parents before getting married. So if not the movies where do they get that power to take such decision, Yes!! Love gives that power. That's what amazes me, from where does love get that power!!?

I guess I need to stop here, need to talk to directly to people in love and try to find answers for these. Don't think I am going to get proper answers, but let me give it a shot :)