Niagara

          What are the things you look at before you conclude that you can visit a place? You check for companion, cash, duration of the trip, whether you can take off of your work/school, if there is a holiday that you can combine with the casual leaves so that you can make the longest vacation out of it, does the place interest you etc. After thinking and checking all these you make the necessary arrangements. We had an additional step of getting the visa this time because we planned to see The Niagara Falls from Canada side. Our friend Harish was the one to encourage us to apply for the Canadian and I want to thank him for the fantastic road trip albeit being too tiring. I took the responsibility for completing all the documentation and applying for the Canadian visa for Bharath and myself.

          Plan was to drive to Detroit, and then pick our friends and drive to Canada. It was a gang of 5 members' was very excited because it was my first time crossing an international border on-road. I imagined that a double walled fence separates United States from Canada spotlighting the borders. I also thought that I would see American Flag on our side and Maple leaf flag across the fence that I imagined. If you are thinking that I might have imagined armed soldiers on either sides you are wrong because I didn't go that far in my imagination. Except for stops for toll and immigration it look more like driving from one state to another. My imagination went overboard because I hadn't considered the fact that there were no border disputes between United States and Canada.

          It took us 6 hours to reach Niagara including an hour spent at immigration and another hour having breakfast. There are two part to Niagara Falls. One is the Horseshoe Falls and the other part is further divided into American Falls and Bridal Veil falls. I saw the latter and my first reaction was "is it all there is?” Not that it wasn't beautiful but I just thought it wasn't doing justice to the hype. Then Bharath showed me the other part. The joy inside me rushed out as tears from eyes. The place is mesmerizing beyond words can rightly articulate. I don't have to explicitly mention that it is next to impossible to survive if you fall. Even though it is the killing face of nature, it is divine. 

          We all zeroed on two activities that interested us the most. One was undoubtedly the Horn blower cruise and the other was Journey behind the Falls. We got the tickets and hopped on to the cruise. The path was to fly by the American falls and Bridal Veil Falls, go into the Horseshoe Falls and then return. We were given a red poncho (you will get a blue poncho if you catch the cruise form United States). The force with which water rushes below and unites with the river creates a mist that gets carried further by the wind. As the cruise got closer to the horseshoe it felt like someone with a biggest spray bottle ever and with unlimited supply of water was spraying right onto my face. I couldn't open my eyes, camera couldn't focus because of the water droplets on the lens. I tried wearing my sunglass, but need I say there was not luck. Somehow I tried to squint my eyes and get the glimpse of the incredible place. I enjoyed it more than getting drenched in the rain. When seen from the top one might feel that it is dangerous (I felt it was cool), but trust me it is one of those things that makes you forget everything and makes you want to go again. I really wanted to stay there longer.

          Journey behind the falls was an activity where you the Horseshoe Falls can be viewed from its lower right corner. One can see the thickness of the false and also get a better sense of energy that it carries.  Also there are caves which leads behind the Horseshoe Falls. This was as if you are seeing some white liquid with perfect amount of hue and saturation falling outside the opening of the cave. Well, that wasn't as impressive.

          I will let the pictures do the talking about the beauty of Niagara. But before I conclude I have to put forth my opinion about the view of Niagara from Canada versus United States. It is true that you get the front view of Niagara from Canada but I am sure it is equally beautiful in its own way from the United States side. Also the cruises from both the sides take you almost along the same path and inside the Horseshoe Falls. I would love to see Niagara from the Unites States side. In fact I can't wait to see. Nature is beautiful from every angle. Funny thing is that I got my At&t network when I hopped on the cruise.

Just before the border

Immigration at the Canadian Border

American and Bridal Veil Falls

Horseshoe Falls

Complete view of the Horseshoe Falls

Can you spot the people in yellow poncho on the stairs ? #relativesize

Below the American Falls

Just another angle

This is when I thought "is this all there is?"

Can you see the rainbow ?

Do yo see how deep into the Horseshoe the cruise gets ? beyond that you would actually disappear!

My favorite picture and it is because of  the rainbow

I thought I had to post this one!

From the "journey behind the falls" imagine the amount of  energy there is.

All set for the cruise

Looks like cotton candy

The town of Niagara

Nobody Is Perfect

          One of the things that differentiates United States from India is that you have wide variety of options to choose from, even if you want to buy yogurt. You have plain, flavored, not-fat and the normal ones, needless to mention that there are legion of flavors to choose from. I wondered how many can go for flavored as opposed to the plain yogurt. But then I thought that there are people who like it, who just want to try it, who tempt kids to have it by bribing with his/her favorite flavor and so on. Isn't it possible to manage without those kind of options like we do it back home!? Then I realized that even we have flavored lassi.

          In a world composed of people with different IQ, EQ and SQ how do you make friends that are very near to our heart ? How do you find people that we love beyond words can express ? Sometimes, we even have reason(s) to not like people if not hate them. How does it happen ? May be we like something  or few things in a person and decide that rest doesn't matter. Or even conclude otherwise. It is as if our brain is executing a well-defined and structured algorithm giving an output that dictates our action. All this happens without our knowledge.

          We come across new people every day. Few stick with us forever, few for not so long and few don't. this is not a criterion to decide whether a person is good or bad because there really isn't a good or a bad person and all that we think is relative. Really, nobody is good or bad but one might jump to that conclusion keeping him as a threshold. When this is the case, how justified is it to judge or comment on others ? Also I feel it is despicable to transfer the baggage of judgement, on someone or something, to others that might actually love those traits. I said judging is bad but are we allowed to have an opinion on others ? If yes, can we impose it on others ? Well, I will leave let you think about this.

          There is a fine line between opinion and judgement. My point is that I have no right to judge anyone and even if I do it is imperative to keep it to myself. I should work on changing my opinion about that someone. If successful I will have a friend for life and if not I will just move on without passing further judgement. I might say having assorted choices of yogurt is a little overboard but before declaring that, I should make sure that I don’t like lassi! This makes life much more interesting and tension free. We all are familiar with the quote "don't judge me until you've walked in my shoes'. Let us try to implement it and only to make ours and other's lives better.

From Cloud Nine

          Bharath gave me two options to choose from as my 25th birthday gift and I chose SKYDIVING! We finally did it today as we didn't get the reservation sooner. And I had to, had to compose this post today itself. I have to mention that I was really very scared and excited at the same time from the moment I chose it. We had booked our slot a month ago. 'Skydiving' by itself says everything and so I didn't want to Google it and get more scared or negative about it so I left everything to my imagination. Not that I had never seen videos or head about other's experiences, but I didn't want to acknowledge to the fact that I chose to jump from a plane soon after entering the 'second quarter' of my lifetime.

          It was 9 in the morning. We were all set to leave and turned the GPS on. It showed that we had an hour and 20 minutes’ drive before we reach the diving point. We saw "The plane" in the sky as we reached and my heart did not stop pounding from that very moment.

          It was time to sign our waiver forms. We had a training session which repeated the fact that there is a fair chance that the dive can turn into a disastrous death and they are not responsible for anything. This part was scarier than the actual skydiving experience. Also the trainer said they have people who have done 9000 to 12000 dives working in there. This gave me some relief although it din't help much to get me out of the nervousness. We had to wait for a while before they announced our names. We entered the diving area through a door that said "No entry without signing waiver forms"! I saw people diligently examining and folding something. I din't pay much attention to what it was then. After the dive I saw that they were folding the parachutes and pushing into the bag for the rounds to come.

          We chose tandem skydiving and it was time to meet our tandem instructor(TI). He helped me wear all the necessary harness. I inquired him about the approximate time it takes to reach the ground. He casually told that it takes about 7 minutes. At this time my heart had broken the cage of my ribs, came close to the skin and was all set to pop out. I got inside the flight and waited for the others to enter. From the time I got my harness, Bharath and I were completed separated, and were with our own TIs. Now the flight took off.

          Our flight could hold about 20 people and had one pilot. When we were waiting for our turn I noticed that it takes off with its door open. Also the pilot landed the flight on the lawn and not runway! By seeing that I thought it is better to dive than to land like that! I am kidding. I had made up my mind to dive AT ANY COST.

          Let us get back now. As the flight gained the elevation I clenched the handle next to me harder. My TI showed me the position that I was supposed to maintain at the time of the jump. I immediately made it clear to him that there is a very good chance of me forgetting it! My harness was too tight. but I didn't complain as I had other things to worry about. For example, what if my parachute doesn't deploy? I sat silently as he hooked me to his harness. I had crossed the level of nervousness and had reached black state of mind. I realized it was about time when my TI began to check my harness and wore his helmet. I asked him about our altitude to which he replied "about 14,000 feet" looking at a gadget mounted on his wrist like a wrist watch.

          It was time and I saw few people diving off the plane as if they were jumping off a stool. At this point I made my TI explain the position I had to maintain again. I reached the tip of the flight and held the bar that was right above me. My TI pulled my hand …wait for it… and jumped. I seriously have no words to explain the feeling. As Bharath instructed me a million times, I remembered to keep my eyes open. I had read that a free falling body doesn't experience any force acting on it. The presence of gravitational force is not felt since the body doesn't  exert any counter force . I wondered how that would be. Even though I was falling it felt as if I were stationary and that only the air around is moving past me. At that altitude I couldn't even feel the relative motion with respect ground which tricked me into thinking that I was still.

          I did a couple of somersaults until my TI deployed a small umbrella attached to the parachute after which the fall was steady. During the free fall, I forgot everything. The adrenaline rush made me forget everything including Bharath. I didn't care if my parachute opens or not. I literally had nothing in my mind. I was too amazed at the view to think about anything. I couldn't hear anything other than the gush of the wind. It is rightly coined 'free fall' and there is nothing but earth's gravitation. I felt a sudden jerk as my parachute deployed. It was as if someone pulled me with all the force. I have to quote my actual word, "oh my god, it was a-ma-zing". And I never meant these words as much before. We were above the clouds when we jumped.

          I totally enjoyed the ride down. I saw Chicago skyline, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee bridge, fields, vehicles, highway etc. I looked for Bharath's parachute which I couldn't find and I decided to concentrate on the view. Vehicles on highway looked like colony of ants marching one behind the other on interstate 94, which was a perfect line. Greenery felt like the earth was covered with flawless silk carpets. The ride down got even better when my instructor turned the parachute. I moved like a wave. It was truly a thrilling moment and I couldn't resist telling him that it was birthday gift. I truly felt like a bird, especially with every turn we took. And you cannot believe how smooth the landing was. Also we landed before our flight.

          I have to say it was the best experience of my life and I feel that nothing can beat that. Everyone SHOULD try this and I assure that you won't regret. Please don’t thinking that I am very daring because it is not at all true. I just have a thing for adventures. Once I jumped off the plane I didn't have time to be scared since I was too busy seeing and absorbing the view. This was the perfect gift for my birthday and I couldn’t have asked anything better. It has been 9 hours since I completed my dive but I am still floating and my ears are still ringing! I am too excited to sleep tonight. As always, I have attached our pictures. 

Bharath's jump

My jump

Just like a bird

I did smile for the picture

Parachute Deployment

Bharath's landing

Feeling like a bird

Me in 'landing position'

Maldives

          As exciting and beautiful it sounds, weddings are tiring for the bride and groom. Believe me when I say, greeting people is not very rejuvenating. It is in my wedding that I learnt what exactly "crowded" means and why the newlyweds take off on honeymoon. I just wanted to stop meeting people. Initially I told Bharath to cancel those plans so that we can spend a little more with our families. But he decided otherwise and I am really glad that he did it.

          Maldives is an archipelago. If you who remember your geography classes well, this is not the first time you read 'Maldives' and 'archipelago' is a same sentence. Flight to Maldives wasn't pleasant. Even though I don’t have any kind of travelling sickness, my ears got blocked and even started to pain as we were about to land. But the bird eye view of those beautiful islets made me come out of the abhorrent feeling. The Maldivian airport is an island solely dedicated to be Ibrahim Nasir International Airport. There are no tall compounds and no explicitly marking boundaries to the airport. Airport ends with the islet. We had to get our on-arrival visa before grabbing our bags. After going through countless procedures to get the United States visa, this process seemed nothing. In fact it took less time than it takes to get past the US immigration at the port of entry.

          After completing all the formalities, we got out to the lounge to wait for the resort representative who was suppose to pick us from the airport. Meanwhile, Bharath wanted to check out the place and stepped out though the exit door. I followed him and was stunned at what was waiting for us. We have taxi stands outside a typical airport, but in Maldives it was boats instead of cabs. Boats that were floating on turquoise water. It makes sense after saying that there is an islet solely reserved for airport. It was a wonderful sight and merely words can't make justice. Being a photo buff I am, I spent most of our way to resort looking and absorbing the beauty around and not taking pictures.

          We finally hopped into our motor boat from the boat-stand and started towards our resort islet.  We had a warm welcome. We freshened as fast as we could and decided to take a walk and enjoy the place as much as we can. We had a private beach and calm water, oh yeah you read it right. The island was fortified all around to prevent the waves from reaching the beach. It was heaven on earth. It was truly relaxing. The nature had formatted my mind of all wedding stress and rebooted with joy, content and love. We spent the whole day walking, talking, relaxing, clicking a million pictures, on the beach, in the water, eating and everything  you could to just forget the outside world.

          While we were walking on the beach, we saw beach bungalows and at the very end there was a restaurant. We decided to go and get something to drink. It was around 6pm and we found a guy curiously looking at something in the water. We went and asked him about it and he showed us a baby shark. As we were looking we noticed there were more and more sharks, big and small, joining it. The school of sharks grew like snowball rolling off the slope. The restaurant guy came out at 6:30pm with a bin full of fishes. Apparently they feed sharks at sharp 6:30pm every day. You must have seen fishes jumping over one another to get the food if you feed them in a pond. Imagine the same, but only sharks instead of fishes. We were there bearing witness to nature's rare act till the end of it and then returned to have a large, festive meal before going to bed.

          The next morning was beautiful especially because I got to sip the divine tasting coffee brewed by none other than my husband on the beach. It was the perfect morning. And then I realized that our day gets even better because we had scuba diving planned. We reached the diving center at 10am and our training started right away. We had a small written test at the end just to make sure we weren't sleeping through the training. After passing the test, we geared up and left to dive. Bharath is a swimmer so we decided that he goes first. I would have voted for the same irrespective of the fact that he knows swimming or not. Now it was my turn.

          I have to talk about the scuba gear first before telling my experience. You get a vacuum sealing goggle that even covers your nose. Once it is on you cannot breath through your nose. You have to inhale and exhale through your mouth. It doesn't sound complicated or as if it is a big deal as long as your head is above water but the problem begins when the regulator from oxygen tank is in your mouth and you are completely inside the water. I was in the water till my neck. My instructor asked me to put the regulator in my mouth and to put my head inside. I did so while inhaling through my nose, the vacuum seal dint let anything inside and my brain suddenly entered the panic mode that overrode the instructions to breathe through my mouth. I took my head out of the water and spit the regulator out and started laughing. I know it sounds weird and my instructor thought so too. He said "Don't worry. I am holding you and won't drown". He had to say this a hundred times to make me try it again and I succeeded.

          It was marvelous beyond words. There were fishes all around us. They scattered away as we got closer just like butterflies on the land. The corals, oyster shell and other creatures in the marine eco system were divine. There is a whole new world inside the water. I forgot my panic, everything for that matter for the whole time I was in the water. I have to tell this to my friend who know me well, I sneezed while I was inside the water, twice. And yes the regulator popped out of my mouth when I did. I was taught how to put it back in my training. I got the regulator right back into my mouth and proceeded. I got scratched by coral which left a 5-inch scratch wound which I noticed only after coming out of the water.

          I don't know if the ocean bed is the same everywhere but here it was pretty normal until at a point where it abruptly dropped hundreds of feet. I reached that point and stopped suddenly. My instructor signed me to continue going to which I replied that I don't want to go further and to please take only Bharath. He did go and I waited till they got back and then we continued. We were looking at everything that our instructed pointed at and this time he pointed at a shark. My body got cold when I saw it because it is a SHARK and also since the images of sharks feeding on the fishes from the previous evening came into my mind. But he eased the panic saying they were harmless. But I had my doubts. From that moment I never looked at anything he pointed to. If I were to be its prey, at least I didn't want to see its teeth before dying. We were inside the water for two to two and a half hours and it was marvelous.  we spent rest of the day exploring parts of the islet that we hadn't seen the previous day and just relaxing.

          We planned to pay a visit to Male, the main land of Maldives the next day. During our trip we learnt from our guide that the country comprises of 1190 islands. It is amazing how a country can function on an island which has an area of 2sq km. They have the office of president, prime minister, official residences of the prime minister and the president, parliament, police station, multi-specialty hospital, defense headquarters, mosque, markets, shopping complexes, war memorial and everything else that is needed to run a country is present in the island of Male. Needless to say, Male is super dense. Well, Wiki can provide better insight with facts than my blog.

          After 3 days of fun and isolation from the real world, it was time to get back with lots and lots of memories, experiences and of course tons of pictures. I have not included many more  fabulous things that we encountered because this post is already long enough. Even after an year, I still remember everything about Maldives as if it was yesterday. My advice to everyone is that you go to some place, wherever it is soon after the wedding. Do not skip that part because you get married just once it will be beautiful irrespective of the place you choose. Also I forgot to  mention that it was the first time Bharath and I flew together.

View of Maldives from the airplane

Another islet of Maldives

Airport without any compound

Fortification around the island to prevent the waves from reaching the shore

Sharks jumping over each other to grab their food

Maldivian special chocolate

Bharath is adjusting to the pressure gradient

Shark that passed us during our dive

Ocean bed that gets abruptly deeper

Scuba Gear

Your Loss Is Your Gain

          This post is inspired by the ideas that formed a cocktail in my mind and stayed there for a really long time until today when I finally thought of giving it some shape. This post is a long time due. Not that I never made up my mind to write about but I always felt it was incomplete. But today I felt it was a bit okay if not perfect. So here it is.  

          I am sure that all of us have heard and agree with "change is the only constant". This is not a debate that argues otherwise but an effort to substantiate it through my experience. I have changed a lot in a very less time considering my reluctance to sudden change around me. There is a drastic change in my personality, like and dislikes, priorities and preferences, opinions, emotions etc. I changed from a person who never ordered anything that she didn't know about in a restaurant to someone who did not hesitate to try '5 spice duck' in a Thai restaurant, which by the way I loved. This change was possible because I resigned the introvert in me and put the carefree alter ego to work, only because Bharath asked me to do it. 

          There is a dialogue in the entertainment world that, "if a person really loves you, he should accept you without changing who you are". I am sure most of you agree with it. I strongly believed till I realized how Bharath always encourages me to change and I am really enjoying the new me. He always advocates that I try something new, especially if he enjoys doing it. It is okay if someone tries to change you, especially if it for your own good and if you are really missing something in life that you can otherwise experience. When you keep yourself in a changing pace continuously, why do you think it is bad for someone who loves you to change you if it is for your own benefit? I say you should always listen to your mind and not ego. 

          We are open to change if it benefits us. But do we welcome the change with open hands if it is for others? Why is it difficult to change if it is not self-provoked? I am not implying that you need to turn ourselves around for Someone. Also that Someone has to come halfway along if you are ready to take that path. That is how a relationship is built. Sometimes you might be skeptical if the other person is really ready to walk the way with you. But it is not up to you to control the other person. It is in your hand to take the first step and show that you are willing to change and solve the same riddle in that Someone's mind. At least you will know if it was really worth your time or not. It is okay to lose and show the special Someone that you are ready to lose but only till you are respected for that. Relationships can have different course of events if you believe "it is okay to lose". You don't have to change if it's not what you want but there is no harm in trying it, even if it is for Someone else. Relationships are about striking the balance and it is okay if you are the one to start compromising. 

          I have made legion of decisions that registered my destiny to where I stand today. Although I don't regret a good number of those, given a chance I would love to go back and do certain thing that I did a bit differently. I would have been a physicist and not an engineer if I can go back to "the 17 years old stop" of the time machine or I would have fought a little with my besties at "the 14 years old stop" or may not have chosen to go to hostel at "the 11 years old stop". Having said all these, I am proud to be an engineer, having fought with my besties and totally enjoyed the hostel life. Either ways, you can't change the past but can correct the future but making amends necessary.  

          It is no secret that we all change with time. We moved from pencils to pens, half-ticket to full-ticket, bicycles to bikes and then to cars, schools to colleges, cereals to oats, casuals to formals, desktops to laptops, handheld video games to Xbox, bedroom to master bedroom, zircon to diamond, being comfy on flats to wearing only heels and so on. But be the change that makes you happy and the ones that make your life less aggravated. It is okay to change for others and change others but for better.

Pros and Cons

          After finishing 3 grueling semesters of my masters, I have got a chance to work in United States. I successfully finishes 3 weeks. I am doing everything I love and loving everything I am doing. Basically life is great and I am doing pretty well too. But I will finish my masters in 6 months and I will officially enter the "officials" club and retire from "students" club and I most definitely want to be done and dusted with studies.  

          Unlike the changes from high school to college there are tons, very different and drastic changes from student to work life. In school and college, the only senior member in your class will be your professor. But at work, initially you will feel that only you are the one with least knowledge of anything and everything. But then eventually the feeling vanishes as you get more acquainted with work. Also this transition gets a tiny bit more difficult if you don't have any person to match your wavelength with. For example if you are the only girl in your team. I mentioned 'tiny bit more difficult' because I have an excellent team with me who really made me feel at home. 

Since I am still in the transition from the student life to corporate life, I thought I will tabulate them and here is my table: 

Student life	Corporate life
Day begins when you wake up	You have to wake up when the day begins
Learn new stuff	Learn new stuff and work on it
Saving is crucial	You can worry a little less about that
You can entertain yourself by browsing Internet when you are bored of studies	You cannot entertain yourself at all
You can bunk classes	Should I still say what happens here?
You can get over your hardest subject in 15 weeks	Every project, easy or difficult, lasts till you solve it
You struggle to make time to watch your favorite TV show	TV show? You won't even have time to look at TV during the week
Want break from studies? Have dinner or take a nap	Dinner and nap are not what you do in your break
You don't have to worry about what you wear to school	Your morning starts with, "don't I have decent work clothes?"
You can watch a movie any day of the week	You keep it for the weekend because you want to get your 8-hours sleep everyday
There is lunch cool about saying "you are at school'	You can say "I was in a meeting" or "we are going out for a team lunch" etc.

          You may feel that I have lot of cons on the right side and jump to the conclusion that your student life was the best. But trust me, you pay cheque makes it all worth. We all come to a stage where we have to accept responsibilities and execute them, we all grow old. You can’t stop that but you can always celebrate what you have and work on becoming what you want to.

Please let me know what you feel is the best and worst part of student and corporate lives and I will make sure to add them in my table. 

The ONE

          I am the first person in my closest friend circle to get married. It almost an year now and it feels like Bharath and I got married only yesterday. I remember and enjoyed every single ritual of the wedding. I happily participated in everything even though I was very, very sleepy. Needless to say, it was one of the best days of my life and I will cherish this forever. I am sure you can connect to this if you are already married. As for my unmarried friends, you will definitely feel this on your special day. This post is not about my marriage or the wedding ritual but it is about the random questions that pop in everybody's mind before deciding who is the ONE.

          I was not at all ready to get married when I first spoke to Bharath. In fact we spoke for the first time because he had volunteered to help me come to United States to pursue my masters. We spoke over and over again, we liked each other and here we are today happily married. I never took anybody's advice on what are the qualities that I have to look for in a person before deciding he is the ONE. Neither did I have any list of my own. If I have to put it in words, I would say I felt connected to Bharath on the very first day. And even he proudly says that even he felt connected to me.

          Make a list of your very close friends. Now pick each name individually and try to remember the qualities that you like in that particular person that made you decide he or she can be your friend. I bet you will not find any because you cannot make friends based on your requirements. You just become friends and then you do all that you can to improve and maintain the bond. You will never let that person be angry on you for long, you fight and patch up immediately, you make fun of each other, you share, you care, you express, you listen, you do everything in your power to make each other's journey in life beautiful. For me, this sounds like marriage.

          One of my friends recently asked me "how will I know if a person is the one I can spend the rest of my life with?". To be honest I couldn’t answer that question initially but then I told her to look for a friend in that person and not for a husband. If you can connect with him as a friend, then he can be your life partner. This is a subjective matter but I bet this will be one in the list of many things to look in a partner, if you have many. This was the only criterion in my list and so I could think only of that.

          Marriage is spending each day, year after year with the same person. Marriage is not about finding a perfect life partner.  It is about how both can get accustomed to each other and lead a happy life. It is about finding a person who has same taste as yours, but not to the extent that it makes life boring. It is about finding someone with whom you can be your own self, with whom you can talk anything without having the fear of being judged, with whom you can feel light even with a heavy heart, with whom you can be happy even though you are sad, with whom you can gossip, with whom you can debate over futile topics for hours without effecting your mood, with whom you can grow to be a better person, with whom every single second is a new experience. When you find such ONE, by all means feel you will feel "hawaye chalne lagi hai, slow motion mein dupatta udne laga hai aur aasman mein chaand kuch zyada bada hua hai" *winks*

          Lot of us are widely influenced by the thought, "how can one decide if the he or she is the ONE by talking only for five minutes?" I say the whole idea of falling for someone is merely on how you feel about that person in the first five minutes of the meetings. Rest everything is built around it. As Confucius said, I paraphrase and quote "a journey of lifetime begins with five minutes' ". Considering that we are more than ready to take chances when it comes to the most futile things in life, we have to at least start by giving 'five minutes' when it comes to choosing the ONE.  And in my own experience, five minutes are more than enough to connect with The One. Trust me when I say I took less than that.