the half promise!

Well there is lots of talk about couple goals and there is a lot of flash display of it on social networking sites like facebook, twitter and etc. And the movies like 'notebook' add the piquant flavor to it, to an extent that it sometimes become beyond god given human power to fulfill it. And sometimes those unfulfilled expectations end up in putting the climax curtains on once so cherished love.

How heart breaking it is? Is the world deprived of the rainbow shades? Is it a myth of stumbling over the bag of gold at the end of the rainbow? And when you start to believe that this world is nothing more than a field of masked faces, then sometimes you stumble over someone who makes you believe in fairy tales again.

When she stepped in my clinic she was an octogenarian widow with a big file of medical history. She had Diabetes, hypertension, increased cholesterol, osteo-arthritis, hyperacidity and hypothyroidism and few more acquaintance symptoms with the major ones and yet you can't miss her cheek to cheek smile peeping from her irregular orthodontics procedural teeth. Trust me, you can't ignore her smile and once you start to talk to her, you can't ignore her and end up signing up for her fan page.

She was widowed very young at the age of 31, most of us are not even married at this age, but there she was with the responsibility of three kids and no husband. I just asked her why didn't she consider re-marrying. {well, we are clan of homoeopathic doctors and it's are oath given right to poke in people's life, to help them with best possible treatment. And at same time we are sensitive to human emotions too, after all with power comes responsibility, we know that.}

So when I was asking her this, instead of getting angry, she blushed. Oh, My God! She blushed like a newly bride and said, "Oh! My husband was a very beautiful man and I swear, I couldn't find any man as beautiful than him....."

She was married at the age of sixteen to a man four years elder to him and with him she made three lovely kids before he deserted her in the fifteenth year of their betrothment in a freak electrocuted accident. Died on the spot.

I was audacious enough to ask her wasn't she angry from her men to leave her so soon and made her live the rest of her life in struggle to withhold the great responsibility of raising three more souls apart from her. Though I cited the question quintessential for her treatment plan but deep down I wanted to know, really really wanted to know. You see without exception, I too have been brought up in this 'expectation world'. Who so ever we meet we expect something from them.

To my surprise,she had no despise, not a single fretting wrinkle on her eyebrow.

"He took care of me for those fifteen years as if I was his queen. He protected me, loved me and respected me and my often childish demands too. Never he was angry at me and never did he raised voice at me, even when I was angry at him. He patiently waited for me to cool down and explained me everything. We didn't had that kind of money and facilities like today but I was still in the utmost luxuries of his love...."

"Was that enough for the life time?" I asked.

"Yes, it was enough. He kept his half promise till he breathed his last. That was uneventful that he had to go early. But that was not in his hand too. What's in my hand was to keep my part of the half promise and therefore till date I am doing that. And to do that I had to forgive him for his early departure...."

She was not remorseful and doesn't blame God for disaster of her life. She was still in love as she was when she was piggy tales teenager. She cherished it and did her part of duty. She was in bliss, the lovey-dovey bliss, definitely no one can miss that.

Well, I could have my awe moment with the fallen jaw, puppy dog eyes and hand on my heart but I had audience and a patient to treat. Therefore I skipped it but what I am not ready to skip is the lesson for life, "the half promise". I don't have her picture but i have her lesson imprinted on my cardiac apparatus {heart} for this life time though.

Expectations is a very crude word in this rude world. God has given us the power to keep and do our part of the job in the best possible way without thinking of the outcome or resultant quotient of profit. So what is in our hand is to keep our part of the promise, rest, I think is taken care of....

Are you ready to give your that half promise to someone because when you are going to do that, the world will magically change into the best place to be in.

your half and my half makes us complete!

Tag in your half promise people, they can be anyone, your parents, your siblings, your friends or your better halves.

So I ask you again are you ready, because I am ready too....

Regards

Hare Krsna