GOD HAS HIS WAYS-A LETTER

  Have you ever wondered since how long we have known know each other?or should I say-how and when we stepped into each others life?well after so many years of “knowing-each-other”,I bring it all down to two sheets of paper….yes two small sheets of paper on whose surface you had written down for me two songs from the then hit film sarfarosh……I hardly knew you then let alone meeting you……I just had an idea that you are the elder sister of  one of my friends-way too older to him and so I saw you in those terms only…..i had asked your brother in school to get me those two full songs written down for me and he had resorted to you……he felt it was such a tedious job……………….any other day,I would have copied them down in my own writing and never cared much about who wrote it.but for these two sheets,I felt something......i was drawn towards them..maybe for the simple fact that somebody I hardly knew had taken the pain to do something for me others(including your dearest bro!)would think silly……..

  At that time,even though those sheets became objects of sentimental value in my life then and there,it never occurred to me to take a step further towards knowing you,except for sending you a hand-written thank you note with your brother.

     Today as I sit here rummaging the many memories stacked in my almirah ,I look at the two brittling sheets  well preserved inside a diary and instantly a smile spreads on my face and I decide to render down my feelings with words that I hope would do justice to them.

 Its an irony that while my relationship with you was seeing new heights each passing day-what with my getting upset over stupid things and your reprimanding me for my even stupider and crazier behaviour,what with that innate open-ness that I always show towards you-I had forgotten about these two important sheets in my life.those two sheets that inadvertently brought me to a “telepathic” contact with you……

   Well I was too young and ignorant,standing on a line between childhood and adolescence,to understand that this was Gods way of letting me know that besides my parents he has blessed me with a friend and a guide for a lifetime..it was his way of telling me sometimes the smallest of the things give you the biggest of the ecstacies in life…….and as I sit here smiling ear-to-ear with those two sheets before me understanding that nothing happens by chance,everything is destined AND the intervention of some divine being is always at play in our lives……(we just have to understand the signs)……I reminisce that wonderful sunny day in school when I first held these two sheets……..