You Complete Me...

Its been 15 years and 6 months since I met you for the first time... when you came running some 6 kms. I thought you were mad! Never once did I think then that 5 years from that day you and I will be hosting our housewarming party in Gorakhpur. 

Its been exactly 15 years since you made me write my phone number on a piece of a substandard paper napkin and hand it over to you.

Its been 14 years and 6 months since you taught me to "change gears" literally and figuratively. I cherish every moment of those days. 

There's something really nice about marrying your friend. Something surreal. Something really sweet. 

Your biggest complain these days are that I don't find you funny anymore and don't laugh at your jokes.

But trust me, you still can make me laugh the same way. I just don't, cause at times I forget that you and I are not mere husband and wife. We can never be that. You have been and will always remain my best friend. My strongest critic and my biggest fan. 

I am lucky to have someone like you to share my life with. A bigger truth has never been spoken when I say, "You complete me." 

You are the reason I am, what I am today. You have always given me the strength to follow my dreams. If my girlfriends are my launchpad, harness and landing bag, you are the air in my wings. 

You have always had complete faith in my abilities, when I didn't trust myself enough to be able to do something. You have stood there like a bullet proof glass in-front of me shielding me from all things harmful, all the time pushing me towards my dreams. 

I am lucky to have you in my life. I am not saying I won't fight with you. I will. I am not saying I won't be sarcastic with you when you've asked for it. I will be. I am not saying I won't threaten to walk out on you, or throw things at you...or scream my lungs out. I will do all that. 

However, I also promise that I will love you until my memory fails me. I promise, to be that friend that you can bounce off ideas with until your ideas die. I promise to partake in all the crazy things that you do, just as you partake in my craziness. I along with you promise to be that set of parents for Hrusha, that she will be embarrassed and proud at the same time.

I am happy that we found each other. Everytime I read the following verse, I realize how lucky I am to be able to identify with it.  

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, 
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 
Love one another but make not a bond of love: 
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. 
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. 
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. 
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, 

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music." -- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet.