Mysorean

After lunch together I went back to office. Preethi and Goddi decided to watch a movie. So, I suggested Sathyam complex and helped them into an auto to that place. Without knowledge of tamil, it's really tough to aviod getting fleeced by these rogues I tell you! We had agreed to meet again (this time for dinner) by around 7.00PM before their train left for Bangarpet (Preethi's hometown).

How can work allow me to go there on time? Something or the other would come up till the last moment and finally I was able to leave at 7PM. To reach the hotel where they were staying would take me 10 mins in case of zero traffic and now it was still peak hour.

Reached the hotel at 7.45PM and they were ready to proceed for dinner. We walked across to the Saravana Bhavan inside the Shanti theatre complex and seated ourselves for a typical Tamil dinner – idli, vada, dosa. Just then I got a call from a colleague, and we got involved in our conversation. But I was determined to spend some quality time with Goddi and Preethi.

As soon as I returned to the table, we began discussing how their friendship bloomed into love and finally into marriage. They were telling me how Goddi proposed and how scared Preethi was about the whole issue. She didn't want to get into a relationship knowing that it wouldn't get the approval of her parents. Caste issues! She initially said no and later agreed. There was a time gap of 1 week in the turnaround and I can imagine what went through Goddi during that period. From there till today, it has been 7 years. And they have been together through thick and thin. Faced their parents with resolve and love. For some strange reason, parents tend to think you are not capable of making the right choice when it comes to choosing your lifepartner. Especially true if you have chosen one from another caste!

It was not so much of the love story that interested me. It was the great chemistry that the two share that made me so happy. They looked so happy together. And happiness is contagious! These guys are not looking outward for happiness. They find their happiness in each other. Togetherness is happiness for them. They are not bothered about conformance from others as much as they are about acceptance from each other. That's true love. Take a bow Preethi and Goddi! May God bless you with a life of happiness! I will also pray to Him that you come to India and live at a distance where we can meet up whenever we want to!

After meeting them, I went back to office and had to work till late in the night. I never felt the physical strain affect my mind because it had just been infected with so much happiness that it became my state of mind too. It gives me so much happiness that I am close to such people who spread happiness by just being there. Better still, they infect you with it! That's Preethi and Goddi for you!

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