God's plans...

Sitting in front of my TV, waiting for the Ayodhya verdict, I was wondering about God's plans... I often do...

I was born to be a mother! I have a few extra strands of the 'nurturer' DNA in my genetic make-up, people close to me say, and I have been good with kids from when I was slightly more than one myself! 


Obviously, it was simply a matter of time!

Growing up - like everyone else - I thought my life would follow the everyday path - major in Eng lit (like my Mom)... a job with my ad agency of choice Lintas,  topped up by a picture perfect marriage (but naturally) with a corporate honcho and then the two kids (ideally a girl and a boy)! 


A life, complete with the veritable white picket fences was mine for the taking! 


Ivory towered ignorance reigned supreme when I majored as planned, got the job I wanted and then the marriage that I thought I wanted.... but it turned out, life was doing her own thinking or rather God was having fun! (not that I am complaining)

Things didn't quite turn the way I thought it would - apparently everyone knew that, but me! But that experience was priceless - it taught me so much and made me a more tempered person (or so I would like to think)! It also taught me to respect what I have and count my blessings! And most importantly, it made me self reliant and finally, I grew up!


(Mind you I have no heinous tales to tell about the ex - we were just from two distant libraries from different countries altogether, when it came to the idea of what married life should be all about,  yes ma-in-law tales I have - aplenty, which amused my friends endless, but she was not responsible for any of what panned out!) 


I left advertising, worked with an US based NGO, headed marketing with a dotcom set-up, headed a celebrity management outfit and dabbled with consultancies of varied kinds - me, the same person who thought she would live and breathe and die advertising! Right now I am busy chasing dreams that peeped in and made their presence felt along the way. The picket fence firmly on the back-burner for the moment! 


In the mean, my friends' kids of varying age groups, fill my universe - and with most of them I share relationships which I cherish! 


But the one who will be a tad bit more special than most has to be Sana - an adorable bundle, my girlfriend Anju's daughter - the first new born baby I held in my arms ever - minutes after she was born! I don't have words to describe that moment - its beyond beyond! Sad though that I can't see her grow right in front of my eyes, thanks to transatlantic distances, but every time I see her updated pics I am filled with wonder and my eyes fill up a bit!

As they say, woman proposes while God sits up there and laughs, because he has other plans for you that you have no clue about... but in the end, its all good!