my candle in the wind

It is time now that i should introduce you(i.e.the very few people who will visit my blog) to some of the main characters in my life..
Now..this is a complicated procedure requiring much activity of grey cells,staring into the distance,steady decrement of nails,crumpled sheets of paper on the floor and making extremely messed up graphs and pie charts ....hence..it is only fair that I should not make matters worse by over-stressing myself and should thus perform the introductions slowly ,surely and one by one..

So..lemme introduce you to my best pal..now we have been best pals (buddies,friends,mates) ever since dinosaurs roamed the earth..cavemen discovered they could walk on 2 limbs and jim carrey decided he had a sense of humor..
we have grown up together..and know things about each other which we'd rather not know..in fact nobody should know..
when i have cried she has let me..at the same time patting my hair; when i have failed she has let me..(why??WHY?)simultaneously telling me i'll do better; when i have thrown tantrums..she has watched quietly waiting for me to calm down so she could make some tea for me; when i have succeeded she has cheered harder than anybody..telling me confidently that i'll be the world's best designer (thank god she has never actually seen my designs!!)

in fact if i could..i would nominate her for the Nobel prize for "sustaining sanity" .. because i am not an easy person to be with..and in my most terrible moments i am no better off than hitler on crack..
there have been times when our prospects on the guy front seem as bright as osama bin laden winning the miss venezuela pageant..So we have promised each other not to worry..we shall be rich nd highly successful entrepreneurs ,buy a sweet cottage in switzerland and live happily forever..
when our professional lives have been as stable as somalia's economy..we have assured ourselves that we will find rich (and apparently blind) multi-millionaires who will marry us and then cooperatively die..thus leaving us to gleefully roll in money...we are each other's personal cheerleding squads..any signs of our spirits dipping any lower than sea level and we're on red alert..cheering,comforting and promising the world...
we fight like cats and dogs..and have cold wars strong enough to freeze california.. and yet we gravitate towards each other like opposite poles
i cannot describe the incredible relief of knowing that there is at least one person in this world who despite knowing all about me doesn't want to jump off a cliff screaming insanely rather than live in close proximity with me...(i don't count my parents because they ,poor things, cannot do anything about it)
..the relief in knowing that even if i bomb america,shoot aishwarya rai,bloat to 201 kgs and still insist on wearing tank tops,she will still love me...(note:i have yet to try all of the above-mentioned but i still have faith )
anybody lucky enough to have a best buddy can identify with this awe-inspiring feeling..

this post is dedicated to her..my friend,my gal,my family outside my family,my candle in the wind ..
CHEERS!