Living In Harmony

August has been a typical month. A time when I am trying to re invent myself and getting all my acts together. In all this hustle bustle, I could never get into right frame to write. But then this topic of discussion we had over breakfast which motivated me to express myself. We were talking about one of Dads maternal Uncle and Aunt and how they are so different in their life, hobbies, work culture. I mean everything. They relish their holidays differently though living together. Having seen and lived with them closely, i never saw anything distinctly common and still they have been happily married for almost 60 years. I was wondering since this morning what keeps them going together but then when I look around I find most of us are in the same boat. When I say most of us - its me and people close to me and around me. Minoo and me have very few things common. As I write this blog, I don't recollect a single common taste or hobby. Her food habits are different - she loves green and lots of veggies and I like fries. She is adamant on her views and sticks by it , I prefer to let things happen. I enjoy sports and she would prefer family melodrama. I love to read and photograph , she prefers to decorate the home. In fact when I look around most of the couples I am close with, they are distinctly different and share very few common thoughts and hobbies. Yet I find them happy together. I am happy being married to Minoo. That makes me think - May its better this way. If we would have shared similar work and hobbies , we would be comparing each other. Evaluating performances. Judging our love and trust on those performances. The diversity of " We are who we are" keeps the romance going and even if we don't like it we have no choice as she is expert in half of the activities we do and I in the other half. If only there was a way to add all the shouting that's coming from Minoo as I write this - "Switch off the Light, I cant sleep with lights on" , you can make out our compatibility as I can go into sleep when she has the lights on to do some stuff or may be teach Divyansh. Love you Minoo.