Love turns 8!

Posted on by Parul Thakur

I have never believed in love at first sight. For me, love is something that happens over a period of time and first impressions are not always the last impressions. Even the concept of falling in love is something that I cannot relate to. Love makes each one of us a better person every single day and we rise in love, we don’t fall!

It was 8 years back when we met for the first time, and I wanted to dedicate this post to VT for bringing out the best in me every single day. When I look back I see that I am a different person today. Our story has been funny and serious at the same time. It had its ups and downs, laughter, tears, and survived a long distance relationship as well. (~1100kms). Skype was our savior!

On record: I am almost 5’ and he is almost 6’.So I’m not too short! I’m just okay! After all world’s best things come in small packages.

Jab We Met : A lot of people think we met in college or worked together. Nope! We were just destined to meet. We have never shared an alma mater or a place of work.

Entertainment: A promise we have kept! If it’s going to a theatre to watch a movie, we do it together. He complains and still watches One Tree Hill and I cope up with Arnab Goswami.

Shopping: I shop with VT, without VT, with family, with friends, offline, online, in air – and I know he can’t help it! I ensure I make up for his share too!

Outdoors: I am a sport and he loves sports! Yes, you got it right! There’s a pun.

Workouts: Gym & Yoga! We have our choices – two extremes.

Early Morning: He knows I can’t get up on my own. My tea is the best part of my day! Glad he does it!

What’s for dinner today? I am the one who enjoys eating and we both don’t cook! He likes cabbage and I prefer chicken! We go out or survive on maggi if our cook calls it a day.

Hosts! We are great hosts. Just let us know in advance you are coming and I will make our place presentable. I can delegate cleaning chores. It’s not my cup of tea.

4 States: I am from Uttar Pradesh and he is from Haryana. We met in Karnataka and got married in New Delhi.

Travel: We enjoy seeing various places. He wants to maximize time and I maximize pictures!

Gifts: If I ever get a surprise gift, I would be shocked! The score is 2 in 8 YEARS – both in year 1 of dating!

I can go on and on and may be this list will change in future. They say love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Love found or lost is plain simple love. It should never be about changing the other person; it should be about accepting the other person the way he/she is. It is about letting go yet holding close! Yes, that’s love for me!

Then and now..
Then and now..

Bottom note: Today is Day 1 of the Writing 101 challenge and this is a stream-of-conscious thoughts!

45 thoughts on “Love turns 8!”

  1. congratultationsssssss and celebration times.. so whens the partyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 🙂

    heres wishing many many manyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy years of togetherness and happiness always and alwaysssssssssssssssssssss

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  2. Wish you many many more years of happiness and lots of love 🙂
    P.S : You know the 5′ and 6′ connection makes me feel so good. Love doesn’t care about numbers 😉

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  8. Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

    I like how you’ve tried to highlight your differences and yet you guys look great together in the pictures. I also love your style of writing – it’s very inviting and easy to read. Thank you for sharing your life with your readers! 🙂

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  9. I agree with this …. Love found or lost is plain simple love. It should never be about changing the other person; it should be about accepting the other person the way he/she is. It is about letting go yet holding close! 👍

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  11. That’s a beautiful post and I can feel the love that u guys share :).. its always the best feeling in the world.. I wish u guys all the love and luck in life…

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  13. I loved this one too 🙂 . For the record I am 5.1″ and he is a little above 6 ” too . We had an arranged marriage and it’s been 1 and half years now. I can now say that if I were to find a guy for myself he will never come near my husband . He isn’t perfect neither am I but he compliments me ten on ten !!!! I am the angry one , he never gets angry. I keep fighting he starts laughing. I could go on too , I don’t know why I m sharing it here but when I saw your post it made me happy , love is so beautiful !!!

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    1. How sweet of you to share these Shruti! Love between two people is never about how alike we are but how much we like each other’s company 🙂
      I am so happy this post made you happy! I blog cos I want to make at least one person smile and today it was you 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by!

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  15. haha! Loved reading this post as much as I did reading the 9 one 🙂 Congratulations Parul (on hosts part.. i ll let u know after ringing the bell and we (taking liberty of counting VT in if u don’t mind) can together make it presentable 😛 On a serious note, congratulations and best wishes to both of you 🙂

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    1. Ha ha! Thank you! I wanted you to read so that you know that we how he is .. we stayed home last evening after work..both working till 10 in the night.. Bought kadahi paneer from a nearby joint and I made rice to have dinner! What a royal day 😉

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      1. Ohhh kadahi paneer, yum yum, am so happy you guys spent the evening together. So no meetha, don’t you like desert 😀

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      2. I love dessert but there was none at home – I had my my daily dose of Gur (jaggery). I totally love it! Haven’t you heard me say that? I don’t have a sweet tooth. I have a full set 🙂

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