Prologue
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Life was interesting, life was unexpected, and life was a rollercoaster. Life…was life.
Everyone's life was shaped by decisions and situations that they had to handle. No two people faced the same situations in life, no two people made the same decisions in life. It truly was 'to each his own' out there in life.
Some people received things they wanted without asking. Some people received things they wanted after much prayer. Some people, no matter how much they prayed, never received what they wanted. Yet again some people, received things they never asked for.
Take having children for example.
How many couples were out there who had simply talked about having a child and then, as if God had been listening in that particular day, they were blessed with that miracle? How many couples out there prayed and prayed for that blessing, to take their relationship and love to the next level, but were never granted as such by the higher powers? How many couples had prayed and prayed for that blessing and after what seemed like forever, they were granted that blessing? How many couples were out there who had never thought about having children or wanted children, yet they found themselves at the opposite end of a positive pregnancy test?
Hundreds…thousands…even hundreds of thousands of couples were out there, each falling into a different category.
Lucky for Geet, she fell into the group that prayed for their miracle. She'd prayed like she had never prayed before to have a child – her Maan's child. After being married for two years, they had decided to start a family. How hard could it be? Or so they'd thought. After nearly a year of trying and having no luck, they went to a fertility specialist. The doctor conducted numerous tests and they all came to one conclusion, Geet while not totally infertile, was close to it. The chances of them conceiving were slim, but they should never loose hope. The doctor told them what they had to do and Geet was going to do it all.
It had been year of checking her resting body temperature, a year of checking her peak ovulating time, a year of painful hormone shots. It had been a year of praying and pleading with God to just give them this one miracle. Then, a year later they had been blessed. Geet found out she was pregnant.
They had done everything by the book. They were not going to take any chances. And nine months later when her son had been born, it had all been worth it.
All the morning sickness, all the doctors appointments, all the weight gain, all the insecurities, all the swelling, and all the pain of a difficult delivery had melted away the second the put her baby in her arms.
Again, this is where life comes in.
Couples in situations like this ended up one of two ways.
For some, life was a bouquet of roses. Their lives revolved around the tiny miracle that they had been blessed with. As a couple, it bonded them for all of eternity because no matter what happened in the future, they created this new life together.
For others, like Geet, let's just say, life was anything but a bouquet of roses.
JAZ
so…whatcha think? he he