An incredible journey together, holding each other....
Today marks a special day for us - it's our Nineteenth Marriage Anniversary - a roller coaster ride, with many ups and downs, but we have managed to make it better by deciding to face them together and finally enjoy with simple joys of being by each other's side. Like every other couple, we have differences of opinion, but we also do have some balancing characteristics (even opposite sometimes) to repair them and move forward. She was a bit of very sentimental type, where as I am more practical, and ready to face all the challenges that comes on our way. It's like playing with a deck of cards, and finally left with a club and a spade, ending up together. Slowly that trend is being reversed, with she owning up more responsibilities and me focusing on important stuffs only and silently enjoying my time. May be as we grow older, we Men become wiser and prefer to become silent ?😉 Or do the ladies realize their full potential as they grow older and feels empowered taking charge ? Not sure, if someone can answer, but one thing is for sure : there is no rule or math that works for everyone. God definitely has given more power as well as patience to them, its just that they don't realize and you have to supercharge them. Things become little easy, if you live in a joint family and have some support, but those are fast becoming past. For most of us, its taking the entire load ourselves and at the same time, happily taking care of our parents, we are privileged to have them so far with us and listen to their advice, which at times become a big savior.
So with all the busyness and responsibilities, we barely get enough time to spend quietly with each other, but then of late, we are trying to find out happiness in small little things, as you have seen in my posts - be it a party or get-together in the apartment, or a few days travel, or a local tour, or even a good lunch or dinner after a shopping or movie.
Life goes smooth, if it goes as you plan early in your thirties, but unfortunately, that has not been the case with both of us. Several twists have come, and we have managed to survive the waves, but then that always kept more pressure to do more and more. However, now we also realize that, unless we put our goals in containment, it's going to be a never ending story and it creates more anxieties which is unrealized stress, and a killer for our health. So we have built up a plan, in which everyone has to sincerely play their part and then do that for a long time to see the result. For us its good health, for kids, its being well educated ( not by means of certification alone) and a good person.
So as I said at the beginning, It really have been an incredible journey together, holding each other....Responsible but also Special for each other at the same time.
To celebrate this day, we have planned to go for a dinner, more to come on that. In the mean time, few more copies with some different designs - I am not an expert in this domain, but no harm to try - do they look ok ?
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