Very interesting conversation driving
out last evening with my 2 girl friends.
Love, happens, they said, when you see imperfections – the dark side of the
moon – the loony bend. It’s tough to like someone perfect.
Proof? Research says 9 out of 10
men think their partners are not perfect (Hmph – need glasses, don’t they?) but
–here’s the whopper! They like them like that! Imperfect!
And more proof! A couple of years
back, we did a ‘house-building’ school project at home for Neel –all
of us together. Orange juice carton skyscrapers
which kept toppling over, windows that kept coming unstuck and grass that was
shedding faster than cat’s fur. So, running into school with our buildings that
looked earthquake-struck, we saw high heels come out of a big car. And another
mom sweeps out with immaculate hair and an immaculate Swiss villa – complete with
darling little lamp-posts and a charming chimney! I hated her and her villa on
sight!
Jealousy? Of course! We’re human,
and we like other humans! We can admire someone who’s perfect, or pray to them,
or even follow them on Twitter. But friends – Nah!
Back to my 2 girlfriends in the
car – quite accidentally, I needed to
test their theory at once. I had a migraine and was sick as a cow on the way
home, moaning, groaning for almost an hour, including stopping the car to gurgle
and gush into a roadside drain. They saw my imperfections all right, right back
till last night’s dinner. And they were still nice to me!
