Present Tense, Past Perfect - Genesis

It’s a tale as old as humanity itself. Everyone and their grandmother has a version of it or will have one sometime in their lifetime. But it must be told if we are to move forward in this story that is my life (the seriously abridged version). I'm talking about yet another tale of love. Of falling head over heels into it and of two hearts becoming one and all of that sweet mushy stuff.

Enter the angry young man. The main protagonist of my story hails from a sleepy little village from the state of Kerala (or God's Own Country as the tourism brochures will have you believe) in India. Fresh out of school and in the prime of his youth, no challenge was too big for him. He dreamt big and with the realization that big dreams needed bigger towns, he set off from home into the noise and hustle of a big university town. As a good Indian boy it was only natural that he'd enrol for a professional course. White collar stuff this. Soon he realized that contrary to what he had believed earlier, getting into college was not the hardest part. Rather getting through it would be what kept him up at night. But I digress. As time marches on, our man establishes himself as one of the proverbial 'heroes' of the campus. Studies are weighing down on everyone. But the seniors have the luxury of taking their frustrations out onto the freshers. Indian summer's at it's best and the heat is on. It is into this charged atmosphere that the love interest of our story walks in.

As beautiful as the day is long, she almost immediately caught the fancy of the entire male populace. But funnily enough, this big town girl (also conveniently from Kerala), had eyes only for our hero. As for him, his already sleepless nights became wasted sleepless nights seeing as how he could not keep his mind on his books try as he may. Violins playing, birds chirping and beautiful sunsets became a way of life for him. It was truly love at first sight - and the second and the third, in fact, every time he looked at her, he saw his life as he'd always dreamt it.

Anyway, long story short, they fall madly, deeply in love with each other and get married once they were done with college. After an appropriately long period of time they gave birth to their first son and he was perfect. They showered all their beautiful love on him. In return he obliges them with the customary baby giggles and frowns. Things were starting to look really good for this happy family. And just when it seemed that things could not possibly get any better they were blessed with another amazing baby boy - ME!

Aah... Let the good times roll!!