Wedding Diaries : Bless You Dr Martin Cooper

Hmm so its almost 11.30 PM in the night and my blog post wants to bless a certain gentleman named Dr. Martin Cooper. No I have not gone crazy as my wedding day fast approaches me. Dr. Martin Cooper is an angel in the lives of people like me, who are in an arranged marriage kind of situation with distance playing the devil. Before you decide to declare this post as stupid, I shall reveal the secret........Dr. Martin Cooper was a researcher from Motorola who demonstrated the first hand-held mobile phone in the year 1973 !!!!

So now that its clear why I am going so gaga over a certain Dr. Cooper, lets study my case. So here I was somewhere towards the end of October 2010, talking to this guy whom my parents thought was a brilliant match. As is the case with most rebellious children of our generation, we usually do not take our parents' wise opinions at the first go. Although I was sure that this so called brilliant match would end up nowhere, I gave it a shot. We started with SMSs. Though wikipedia says SMS means Short Message Service, the messages slowly were growing to become short stories. Strangely though my message inbox was getting to maximum capacity at least twice a day and I constantly found my thumb aching :) So you can well imagine the kind of conversations the two of us were having through the so called Short Message Service.

Within a month it was clear that my parents were actually true and their wisdom had led them to this match, which by now I realized was brilliant :) So since things looked positive, the 2 individuals expressed their interest to meet and the families made the arrangements. But even by now, we had not even spoken to each other once. Strange ti seems but thats the power of SMS - Short Message Service !!!!

The meeting went better than expected and within a weekend the match was fixed. Parents were overjoyed and the news was slowly being passed on to near and dear ones. Now came the difficult part. The wedding date was in Aug, 2011, a good 8 months after the match was fixed. The long courtship period and the 1511 km distance between Hyderabad and Delhi. Things would have been terrible if not for Dr. Martin Cooper's 1973 invention and India's largest mobile network Airtel :)

So began the phone calls. Its not that Airtel gave us any good plan but then who really bothers in situations like this. Phone calls were now a part of the daily routine. Wake up calls, lunch reminder calls, whats up calls, I'm getting bored calls, good night calls etc and etc. Somehow people separated by a long distance always find a lot to talk over the phone, and we should all thank Dr. Cooper for that :)

Its quite strange,. but the mobile phone has become like a family member in today's times. Although there used to be the sweet hand written letters in old days, but given the hectic lives and the busy schedules, letters are a real luxury. And what better than listening to the voice of a dear one !!!

So in the 8 months of my courtship period, I have been quite a profitable customer for Airtel  :) But keeping the expenses aside, it has given me the opportunity to bridge the physical distance and get to know the person with whom I would be walking the journey of life. The long conversations, the quick chats, all have in some way helped both of us understand and appreciate each other. Through these calls we have shared each other's anxieties, problems, happy moments, day to day experiences, childhood memories and a lot more. Each phone call increased our understanding and respect for each other and by now we are both confident that we have chosen the perfect person as our life partner.

Most often in life we fail to notice the smallest of things which make our moments cherished. But if we spend a minute thinking about how it would be if these small things were absent, we would quickly realize that the beauty of life is in these small things. After all its small drops of water that make an ocean....just as small memorable moments make a lifetime.

So here's to you Dr. Martin Cooper, you are my angel !!!