We are currently addicted to “How I Met Your Mother”! Fortunately we started watching it after Season 3 ended which meant we could spend weekends with buckets of hot chocolate/tea, running “How I met Your Mother”-marathons. This is the ultimate way to spend a relaxing weekend.

“How I Met Your Mother” is about how a series of events in the main character’s life brought him to the point where he meets his future wife. It got me thinking about my own life, if and how fate had played a role in it. Being Indian, I think the idea of fate is something you grow up with. Often, Indian parents attribute bad events, especially, to fate/destinty/’that’s the way it was meant to be’ type reasons. I am a bit of a skeptic, I would like to think that had I not taken a certain path or made certain decisions, my life, while different would probably have turned out fine. But that was before I met TD. Since then, I cannot begin to imagine what my life would have been like had I not met him, which made me think about what part fate might have played in my life.

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This week has been pretty emotional so I am going to lighten the mood a little and talk about the characters I have introduced into my blog.  When I started this blog, I knew that I would have to mention the people in my life as they play a significant role in my daily life and the way I view the world.  Naturally, after bringing up the possibility of becoming a character in my blog, the first reaction was “You better not use my name!!”.  So I decided to come up with humorous apt nick names for these wonderful people.   I am sure you have been wondering what the abbreviations I have used stand for, so here is a quick guide.

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