When one fine morning she knocked on the door to my virtual world via Messenger , neither of us had imagined what destiny had held in store for us !
Poles apart in everything , it is but a miracle that we met at all
But be convinced that miracles happen everyday and life bursts with mysteries that may not always be explicable but unexpectedly and pleasingly change the course of a life's journey 💗
When I decided to write this note , I had to look up the dictionary for a proper word to describe my first interaction with this very special person because I really want to emphasise on the fact that this out-of-the-blue “hi-hello” had seemed quite an unimportant "by-the-way" thing back then 😊
Google came up with words like "unintended" , "unprepared" , "unarranged" , "unplanned" , "uncontrolled" , "impromptu" , "unscripted" , "spontaneous" , "unrehearsed" ... and even "unpremeditated" and "extemporaneous" 😊😊😊 !!!
It could have been all of the above , but “unscripted" it certainly was not , because this chance interaction with a complete stranger was definitely scripted in stars by no less than the One and Only Writer of all Fates ... The One who writes both kinds , the most mundane and the most exciting of all stories with utmost perfection ... 🤗😍😊🙏
After her first message which I answered perfunctorily , I was surprised to find another a couple of days later ... and another again some days afterwards ... all of which I kept answering like a programmed robot ... 😐
She was pulling me towards herself with amazing confidence and familiarity , all of which was overly unfamiliar and unexpected for me
... but knowingly I was letting her allure me into a relationship that was unfolding before me like the sun rays gradually rising in the Eastern horizon and then warming and brightening up every little blade of grass that's there under the vast open sky 💛☀️🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾
If I have to give this experience a name , I'll say "yaar ko yaar hi rehney do koi naam naa do" 🙂
I had been on this planet for half a century , tasted life sour-n-sweet , bathed in and splashed around more than a thousand of its colours ❤️🧡💛💚🤍💙💜🤎🖤 , but this was a hitherto unshared and exclusive "mera-walaa-zindgi-ka-raNg" that had fallen in my decolored path straight from a million rainbows 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
And now , as I look back and celebrate a decade of this extraordinary friendship in all it's highs and lows , ebbs and intensifications , closeness and aloofness and so much more , I feel blessed to be in this refreshing bond of freedom 💃💃💃
Yes ... it is a bond of freedom that has helped me identify enslaved mindsets , liberate myself from them , introspect and evolve ... and above all , fall in love with myself many times over without being preyed upon by narcissism 😄😉💕💕💕
She never cared what religion or age I was
She never cared what I wore ate or looked like
We have never met in the real world
But she has always been there for me 🥰
I am often inclined to think that she possesses something like power of telekinesis 🤔 because I always find a message , a song or a ghazal from her in my inbox whenever my head needed a shoulder to rest on and unwind in silence ... 😌
She says :
When there is friendship 🤝💞👩❤️💋👩 nothing else matters 🙏
How very true indeed 💐💐💐 !
But I have looked up for every available information about her
Her age , her preferences , her profession and even the meaning of her name , which is as unique and beautiful as our friendship 💕💕💕 !!!
For her I am a friend-philosopher-guide kinda person
And for me she is my soulmate ... 🙂💞💐🫶💞💐🫶💞💐🫶💞💐🫶💞💐🫶 !
Yeah ... Typically I guess a Soulmate would have to be a person who one has met in the real world or someone with whom you share likes / dislikes / hobbies / 🤔 ?
May be ... But from the beginning this was anything but typical !
It was not me ... It was God scripting the screenplay of my story 🤗😊🥰
This was His choice 🙏💐👍🏼
And my soul often whispers to me :
"Ye hi hai right choice babyyyyy !"
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
