A human mind really is a very wonderful thing. It think about complex issues, work non-stop, often even in our sleep and when you think that you will write it all down…it goes blank.

Yesterday, Abu and Shan were not home and Bhai and I felt very lethargic so we watched movies. First we watched ‘Force 10 of Navarone’, an old Harrison Ford War movie and then ‘Shall we dance’. The latter though a typical Hollywood movie, contained something that got me thinking. It was cheesy but it sounded right. The question I have been asking myself for quite sometime now …why do people get married?

Here’s the quote from the movie that made some sense…

“We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."

Like I said, it’s cheesy. But really, is this why people get married? Because in someway, we are all seeking immortality through another person, so that no matter how we live our life, we have not gone down the lane alone!

After watching the movie I offered my prayers while Shan and Abu came home in the meantime. I was dead tired but Shan was not! Next thing I know he had persuaded me to a game of chess. I could very well have been playing my first game of chess considering my troops were massacred!

Weekend’s here and i really have nothing planned. I don’t have a book to read, or a movie to watch or go anywhere in particular. If I am really lucky, Shan will take me hiking tomorrow. I really want to go…it’s just been too long.