Father of the Bride

Remember Steve Martin in the movie Father of the Bride. A father whose daughter is getting married is more anxious than the daughter herself…it’s hilarious but at the same time very stirring and tender. We cannot understand a father’s feelings and thoughts, what he feels when the daughter whom he has watched growing up, loved and pampered all his life is about to leave him in sometime soon. For whom he was the hero of her life for all these years, now suddenly going to be someone’s wife, someone’s daughter-in-law and stay in their house and leave this house for good. My dad has started behaving like this. He sometimes showers his love on me and every now and then looks at me so intently. I sometimes go red in face and sometimes I feel anxious of letting him go through all this. I’m persistently making efforts to help him accept and acknowledge the fact that I’m engaged and it’s all happening with his consent. But I think it is futile to reason the Father of the Bride to be. Because it isn’t the logic or rational thought that he wants to know, it’s the sentiments that he understands.

A Day to Remember

It’s been a day of such contentment when you have spent a portion of your day attending an imperative seminar cum workshop, meeting interesting people from across the country and another portion of your day with the most important person in your life. You talk to him over lunch and go for a long drive. Even if you do not say a thing to each other yet you enjoy the company. It’s really amusing how certain things you find silly at one point of time in your life you suddenly start enjoying those moments. I have certainly entered a new phase of life which is as significant as any other phase of my life that I have gone through. The beginning is good, hope it continues the same way and I take pleasure in acknowledging every new beginning and every new phase of my life.