When you take care of things, they last!!!!

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Relationships are like a rose that we forgot after leaving it in our diaries but when you open it after years,
You will observe that may be the flower is not as fresh it was the first day, but it has left the marks of its presence over the pages.



Few days back, I saw one old couple sitting together. Both were celebrating the woman's 40th birthday together and I saw the gentleman clicking the pictures of property and moutains with utmost sincerity.
Thankfully, I had to take guest to their boooked suites for their stay so I was able to met them and was able to witness their story.

This is the main perk of being a hotelier and working with hospitality industry that you donot only get to meet different people but you meet different stories!!!

So while talking with the couple I got to know that their marriage was nothing like love marriage infact their marriage was like that of normal indian marriages we have always witnessed.
The gentleman's Chachu was friend with the woman's father and this is how their marriage got fixed.
By the next month, everyone had a card of their marriage and till the date of marriage they have not got a chance to have a look at each other.
Basically they never saw each other till the date of marriage.
While both were telling me this story, the gentleman suddenly said to me,
"Lekin beta, jaise hi maine inhe dekha mera dil pighal gaya tha!!!"
I always thought that these love at the first sight was our generation thing and even I never believed it.

Then while going further I took them to their suite, explained about the hotel and the facilities at the property.They were with us for 4 days and with frequent meeting with them all around the day they taught us so much about life.

They always use to saw us working day and night and the gentleman once said to our housekeeping supervisor in one his meeting that,
"I know everyone says live your life to the fullest but you know when you work hard someday than only you will be live your life to the fullest one day but while working hard you should never forget to pat your back!!!"

And that was the best advice my team would have ever gotten by someone.

So, their children are settled outside India and they now are retired and keep on travelling together.They made me clicked their pictures on various places of the property and I did not mind.
One day just walking with them through our small kitchen garden seeing different plants and vegetables they told me about the backyard they had in our old home and how they planted it together.
They have completed 50 years of their marriage and they said they were still young.
I remember the gentleman telling me " Beta! Abhi to ham javaan hi hai. Pachaas saal hi to hue hai bass. Abhi to ye madam jo hai na, inke to topic hi nahi khatam hue jhagdne ke to abhi hamare din kaise khatam hogye" and we laughed together.
It was 50 years of marriage but both were still complaining about each other but it never felt like a complain.
They embraced.
They embraced each other flaws and the hardships they both have been into.
From working extra hours so that they can live the life they have now to decorating their yard together. They must have gone through so many things.
And suddenly one day while walking around the property I just had a glance over our swimming pool and I saw them.
They both were sitting on the pool chairs and the gentleman was clicking the pictures of lady.
When i observed closely,
I got to know that the gentleman was telling his wife how to pose so that he can get the best pictures.
He made her go around all the sides of pool of some perfect pictures.
I asked them if they want me to help them with their pictures. While he handed me his phone I saw the picture of their marriage as his wallpaper.
It was a 50 year old photgraph which was clicked from an old album offcourse.
After these years of marriage they still did not forget to love and give respect to each other.
And in all these days, when they were staying with us they taught us several things which no one ever taught us.
The importance of working hard, the importance of not taking life for granted and most importantly they cleared the idea of ideal relationships we have in our mind.
They also must have planned about how their future partner would be before they got married but did they were matching to each other criterias?
No!
But they did not hustled about it when they saw each other and lived with each other.They must have sorted life with each other.The hardwork, the sorrows,the happiness each and everything they shared must also have been very hard for them.
The comfort they have today between them must not have been there when they met. 
Relations are not made in a day,
they grow as each day passes and it always take two people in it.
And as they showed us,
I say it is true,
"That when we take care of things,
They last!!!!"
And the love always leaves its marks where ever it goes,
Which just have to keep on painting that mark so that in never fades away.



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