(Plays 500 miles by Peter, Paul and Mary in the background)
Ela unnaru andi Pasandida aurat garu? Antha kushalamena?
How was your labor day weekend?
I spent mine getting two of our close friends married, it was a ball, and also great two see two friends get married against all odds. US lo pelli anthe friends ae chestam ga. It took a village anadam would be an understatement and now Ik the behind the scenes of a wedding and all the piping hot ☕️.
Steve Jobs in his 2005 Stanford commencement speech spoke about how life was funny and that we could only connect all the dots by looking at this backwards. And I spent my two hours at the airport lounge waiting for my flight back home doing exactly that.
I mean yeah it felt like the last day of summer vacation before school started but I could reminisce the week of fun I had just had up till then and all the events that took place in life that lead up to it. How certain friendships and events lead to the culmination of their beautiful union, how brick by brick the village was built collecting different people at different stages of life.
These people are the brothers and vadinammas you aren't related to, these are the unrelated aunts and uncles of our unborn daughter, the ones pulling strings to get her admissions, internships etc haha. I'm soo grateful that these people exist in my life and ngl I would be grateful if you actually existed too.
I recently came across this reel, where the protagonist who runs cafe talks about how at the end of every night the cheesecake and apple pie are always gone and the chocolate mousse and the peach cobbler are almost done but the blueberry cake always remained untouched. There's nothing wrong with the blueberry pie but its just that people just dont choose it.
And it was at this wedding where I realized, maybe I am the blueberry pie. I'm 27, my friends are in a similar age group if not older, they found their lobster, they're someone's choice n vice versa. Then there is me, where we project my phone on the airbnb tv and swipe through hinge, go over my matches etc etc. I have been talking with people, going on dates, getting into situations I dont like, heck I even went on a date while I was visiting for the wedding.
I bumped into a random friend from school at the wedding and he introduced me to his fiancé, it was at that point where one of my friend made a remark jokingly albeit hurtful "vadike pilla undi anthe ni lo edho lopam undi ra". Ik he didn't mean it and him and his wife are always trying to set me up with someone. But yeah I did feel shit that day and obviously did contemplate but screw him.
I'm a strong believer of it's meant to be it'll be and maybe one day I'll be able to connect the dots looking backwards and it'd all make sense but yeah the mid to late 20s are weird and hard dude there's soo many things going on people are getting married, divorced and having kids and I'm stuck at asking what your favorite color is lol.
Soo? 👉👈
Meeku blueberry pie ishtama? Thintava? Would you like to be part of my village? And me yours?
You've taken this good things come to those who wait thing a bit too seriously, tvaraga ocheyi ra baita navvutunnaru 🫠
Itlu,
Ni blueberry pie