Today’s post is a gift from no one but my dear niece, friend Moonmoon from Mumbai. The tribute song is also chosen by her to match the post. The thought of this post started by a conversation with her about me and my marriage.
Hey my chirpy chatterbox aunty, did you have a love marriage? Was uncle your Prince Charming, and you his Cinderella??How did you both meet? Isn’t uncle a wee bit elder to you in age? You had told me that you were a good student and wanted to study, then how come you got married at 18? Did uncle promise your sister that you could continue your studies?? All these question came from Moonmoon which compelled me to think about the day when my marriage was fixed with Sudhanshu.
I knew that it was a crisp April day when proposal came for my marriage. My dad told my sister that two brides for two brothers, that too of the same family?? It’s something unusual in Odisha, in our family and it’s considered inauspicious too!! But as Doris Day had once sung…”Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be”, the future’s not ours to see, Que Sera Sera…!!in the same way, destiny interlude in the form of my brother in law, and sister who ensured that I did marry into the same family, as they felt, I had it in me to adjust anywhere and everywhere…!! This way me, the bride…Sudhanshu, the bridegroom, crossed our paths in the most clandestine manner, and the rest is history
It seemed like a fairy tale story and someone wrote my name there to be with him. My sister and brother in law started their family with very limited income and did not want me to have the same experience.
As a to be bride, I felt like a child, apprehensive about the future, yet eager to taste the fruit, and to add fuel to fire albeit in a positive way, my would be brother in law’s words rang in my ear, Chandu can adjust anywhere, she has quality like salt which can mix with any food and enhance its taste. That is what my brother in law told Sudhanshu when my marriage proposal came Sudhanshu asked his opinion. My sister requested him that if possible let her finish college since that is what was my dream. Casually foreign returned educated Sudhansu answered my sister that why not if she chooses to study. Thus started my journey to become Mrs. Chandra Misra leaving my Saptapthy last name and Chandra mani first name.
Within few days my life took a different turn and I became the bride. My Jeevan Sathi (life partner) is Diya to my Bati….my provider, protector, lover and above all my husband in every sense of the termЁЯШК
Today that I finish college and completed 50 years of our married life I wish I thank my brother in law who made it possible for me to have this life. His one sentence to my his brother made a mark in my life.
I wish that my dear brother in law were alive to see how his brother kept the word…and Chandu who was salt according to him, did so well in life…I owe him big time…may his soul rest in peace. Posting a picture of my sister , brother in law and us for you all where you can see how all the girls left me alone and went to see Sudhanshu when he entered as a bridegroom to our Pathuria Sahi, Puri home.