MIRACLES DO HAPPEN.........

25th of May 2006, 3:00 p.m., my cell phone rang, it was my mom’s routine call. She calls me everyday n talks to me. Her usual question are “Had your breakfast/lunch?”, “What did you have for your breakfast/lunch today?”, “what time is your office?” and all such stuff. But today she was unusually silent, she just asked me “what were you doing?” and she kept mum after that, the silence was very abnormal and it was making me restless, so this time around I started asking her “are you alright?” , “you seem to be very low today, what’s the matter?”. She then said “Shazia got engaged last night”. This didn’t shock me at all, because I knew it was somewhere round the corner , my next question was “When is she getting married?” , my mom said “ when she gets her groom”. This confused me , I wasn’t getting anything out of this , I told her “just now u told me that Shazia got engaged and now you are telling me she does not who will be her future husband” I cant understand it at all. Then she said “Her engagement broke last night, the guy turned down the offer immediately after seeing her” , I thought she is not bad looking at all then why did the guy turn down the offer, he was getting a chance to marry such a beauty.
Whatever , I was just feeling happy about everything……….. but I didn’t express it.

Well the next question which popped up was just what I still cannot believe , in my wildest dream I couldn’t of thought of it. My father took over and asked, for the first time in my life I was talking over this issue with my father, a scene well reminding me of Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gum, Amitabh asking Shahrukh about his plans to marry Kajol, my father asked me “Do you still love her ?” , i was unable to speak anything, he repeated the question, I nodded , but then I realized that I am on phone and not in front of him, so my nodding wouldn’t help, I had to speak out. Slowly in a whispering tone I said “yes”, but immediately after that I said “But still it is your call, I wont go against you, eventually it will be our decision”. My father said nothing and handed over the phone to my mother and my mother said that we will call you again after some time!!!!!

She called me back in an hour, but this one hour seemed to be one of the most difficult time in my life to pass, I was so helpless, I wanted to talk to Shazia , I wanted to console her because my mom said that she was crying all night. Everything that I wanted to do was not possible at that time. So when mom called up , she said “ your father had a talk with her father, and he told Shazia’s father that to keep searching for good grooms and to look for a guy with whom Shazia remains happy, in case you don’t find any such groom, I am ready to marry Raja with her but………… not before a couple of years at least”
I just couldn’t believe this, things were changing around, a dream was turning into reality, slowly but steadily. But then my mom said “Raja, don’t be excited from the word go, because your father is still reluctant”, I told her “ I have already put the ball in your court, its upto you to decide the final thing” , I was gambling , I wanted to play safe on all fronts and didn’t want either side to feel that I am not supporting them. For my parents I was a good son , who was still ready to do whatever they decided and Shazia knew how much I loved her. And these are the people who mattered the most in my life, so I was not hurting any of them, well played RAJA, I thought.

I had still not talked with Shazia, because the full and final YES wasn’t said from either side, especially from my father. After this incident there was silence on both the fronts, but then one day I came to know that some guy who is doing his MBA has approached her father and her father is considering it, this really bothered me, if this time I lose her I will be lost forever, I had gulped down the fact of losing her once, but it was impossible for me to do it for the second time. Again I was restless and wanted to talk to Shazia, but my parents and all my relatives had asked me to have patience, because any emotional move from my side would result in losing her forever, they told me it’s just a matter of time, don’t worry, and the very thought of losing her forever sent shivers down my spine, so I didn’t call her up. The phase continued for about a week, same news kept on coming and it made me more and more restless and testing my patience.

I was mapping the whole situation to a K serial, like it happens in all the K serials, when everything is going right, something terrible has to happen, a VAMP has to come in between. The news was playing a VAMP out here in my case, meanwhile I even felt like blaming EKTA KAPOOR for her soaps because her soaps have made people change their way of thinking, especially of all the WOMEN. But cursing is what I was able to do, but I didn’t even know whom should I curse?

The whole week passed by, some how, next week I got a call again from my mother , confirming that it was just a rumor, don’t know who had spread it, whoever he/she was, was a moron. I was happy again, but still there was no FINAL YES from my father. I was just unable to understand as to why my father is not giving his VERDICT.

This phase again was difficult for me, because during this phase I was not even able to concentrate on my backup babes , well I should tell you guys, I had a lot of backups (in case I didn’t get Shazia). But then backup can never replace the original, isn’t it?.

Finally after a couple of months ……………… I got a call , this time it was Shazia’s younger sister, she called up and said “Congrats Jiju” and I just couldn’t believe my ears, I asked “why are you congratulating me for?” then I realized that she had said “JIJU” and I was the happiest person in this world. I just couldn’t believe it, I asked her if she is playing a prank or is she really serious, she said she was serious. That day was the best day of my life and the call was the most important call of my life.

I started believing in miracles from that time onwards. If you have read my previous blog, CONFESS ………… then you will also start believing in miracles.

I am getting engaged with SHAZIA this November.

Well my next blog would be on how these things happened, who were the key players involved in making this happen……….