The Blending

I called myself an ‘asura’. I carried the attitude at least. I was  showy, loud, extravagant and boastful. Always made a big entrance, wanted all the attention in places where there were crowds and always wanted to be left alone when at home. So no sibling rivalry issues – so to speak.

She was the quiet types. Always wanted to mingle and hated attention at crowded places. But she was the single child of her parents and so she never got used to sharing her toys, her room and her share of attention from her parents.

We were different… worlds apart… taste in food, thoughts about charity, money and even the concepts about a happy life… but by the divine hand of God we were bound together. Destined to spend a lifetime together. And to achieve that fate, a blending was required.

Although adaptation and change is imminent, the first natural instinct of any human is to not change. We like ourselves and want to continue being what we already are. But as imminent as it can be, change is bound to happen. And trust me, it happens in ways more than you can imagine.

One small change at a time, we evolved. Appearance, behavior, attitude, through all the resistance took shape. There were times when we felt that perhaps we were better off the way we were but we couldn’t stop it. We blended…

This is just the beginning and we have just started seeing blurry boundaries, the edges of our personality where we can’t figure out where I end and she begins. But there is a long way to go… for the blending to be complete…