How long does it take to know a person?
A lifetime of course.
And you are expected to answer the question “Do you like him” from the five minute meeting you had.
A person, who you had no idea, that he existed on earth before these five minutes.
A person, who you don’t know, if he prefers you taking the lead in the conversation.
A person, who you don’t know if he likes talking about cricket.
A person who you don’t know if he enjoys the wind at the sunset on a beach.
A person who you don’t know if he enjoys munching the peanuts as you take the long walk.
A person who you don’t know if he likes coffee or tea.
A person who you don’t know if he appreciates that you are an individual with equal emotions, ambitions and challenges.
And you are supposed to decide whether you would like to spend the rest of your life with him in those five minutes.
You are supposed to select a life time companion for you in those five minutes, when all your life you believed companionships just happen and are not made.
You are supposed to believe that you have chosen your soulmate…who reads every single thought of yours, when you don’t even know if the person who sits in front of you enjoys reading Ruskin Bond or Ayn Ryand!
And I am surprised by the fact; most of the people I have known in my life have made the right decision in those five minutes or even less.
Life is indeed beyond our reign and control!
6 comments:
I dont believe in that statement..coz the person itself is evolving all the time..so you maybe able to measure up the person the state he is in at that point..but you cant say it for sure he is the same after sometime..it is much more complex than that..
" A person who is a stranger for the first one third of your life becomes the center of the rest two-third of your life"
i know exactly what you mean. one of my sisters went the same way - after talking to the guy for 5 minutes, she decided "he is the one for me." the second one was even worse. she saw his photo, talked to him for 5 minutes over the phone and said yes. I had to know the person which took about a year's friendship, then another half year to decide. now i can't say which one is happier, each of us content in our worlds... maybe marriages are truly made in heaven, where everything is decided much before we are born.
Mathew, I guess you got me wrong :)
Anphy, thats a perfect quote! :)
Wanderlust, thanks for sharing those. Yes, we ought to agree, marriages may be made in heaven!
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