Life's full circle moment

My first interaction with Achu was, when we stood at the bus stop waiting for a bus to go to school, a man who was decently dressed passed by and asked me for some money. Achu asked me what the man wanted and I told her, "He was just asking for alms". She immediately asked me "Athu enthu saadhanam aa?!" We laughed hard and that's how our beautiful friendship started. We had just started Plus1(11th grade) and grew so close that she opted out of Math and took Computers as an elective, just so we could have one class together. I know what you're thinking, I could have chosen Math instead too.. but because of my brilliant scores in Math in tenth, My school didn't even give me Math as an option!

After Plus 2, I went to Bangalore to pursue B.Com. Achu wrote the medical entrance, but her scores couldn't secure an MBBS seat. So she pursued Ayurveda medicine and never missed a chance to remind me that she couldn't appear for the engineering entrance exams just because she left Math for me. Today She's an Ayurveda doctor and I'm her patient. Maybe this was why we came into each other's life. It was just the universe conspiring to carve our role out in each other's life.

Let me simplify it : She became an Ayurvedic Doctor because of me just so I could be treated by her in future!

This is what life is. She swirls her wand and wherever she draws we have to play it out!

The point of this blog is that the English we know or that post graduate degree doesn't determine our outcome. You eventually end up where you're destined to be; either on the bed or beside it.

I feel so proud when she authoritatively tells the nurse to get me a certain painkiller "STAT"!

I feel so happy when they say "Aswathy Madam has asked us to personally supervise and make sure you're comfortable"! But I will not compare our journeys. We're both in our happy place. She's not ahead, I'm not far behind. We fulfil our destinies at the right time meant for us. I don't know if it's politically correct to call her my "soulmate", but she is. She never guilts me into not calling her or texting her and never judges me for my decisions. She trusts me and I trust her. We're each other's cheerleaders and that's all that matters. Adding my favorite picture of ours from the archives.