Confessions of a Happily married husband--a guest post by Satish

A guest post written by Satish 

It’s been a long time since I wrote a Guest post and decided to give it a shot today since I had some free time and also given some news that we recently received. It’s Preeti’s blog and therefore thought I would write about what it is to be married to an author, a poet and an artist.

When I was a child I always wanted to be a Doctor. I could not however stand the sight of blood and therefore
took the easier way out and decided to get married to a Doctor, instead. Now life does not go the way you normally want it to. To cut a long story short I fell head over heels in love with Preeti who was not a Doctor and got married to her. On my part, I ended up being an Accountant – an Accountant you would be aware is one who doctors the books of accounts and a good one is he, who when asked the question what two plus two is gives you an answer – what do you want it to be, instead of four. Therefore I did manage to do a bit of Doctoring myself, after all!

Being married to Preeti, I must admit is very different to what I expected her to be. She has evolved from what she was, into something I would never in my wildest dreams have expected. She had always been the talented part of the family. However the extent of the talent is not something I had foreseen. Starting off with paintings, she was able to draw, sketch and paint (in a variety of mediums) and did it so easily that I used to feel a bit of a fool sometimes. I got back my own, by handing over the responsibility of getting all the kids art related projects to her, much to the teachers delight.

Her Dad’s death, whilst a catastrophe, did in a way bring out something in her which would otherwise probably never have come to prominence – her writing! When she started blogging it was more as an emotional outlet and I never thought it would lead to her being an author or becoming as famous as she has. She was always conscientious about writing blog-posts and responding to every comment she received and would faithfully give me an update about how many comments she had received that day, how she needed to write a blog-post, which part of the globe the comment came from and which award she had been given in the blog-world and by whom. This invariably happened at 1 a.m in the night when I was fast asleep and she was working on the computer. Things have definitely moved on since. Her blog is now considered amongst the top fifty thousand blogs in the world, she receives more e-mails from people all across the globe (even more than what I get officially and I get a lot!) and she still wakes me up and provides me commentary during the night, though now anytime of the night and not just at 1 a.m!

I was ecstatic when she told me that her book was being published. This was a dream come true for her and for me too. At least this way, I would figure in a book (she put my name in the acknowledgement list and gave me the first copy with a deeply personal note to me). I must have done something right, I guess. I am not so much of an optimist as regards betting, and did not know what to say when she asked me to read the initial manuscripts of the book and predict how it would be received by people. However after reading the book I did tell her that it would no doubt do well and be a best seller. For a change I bet on the right horse and guess what – her book has just been declared a NATIONAL BEST SELLER !! She has also been receiving tonnes of mails praising her writing skills from people who have read her book and  like wine she is indeed becoming better each day. I am certain that her second book will be even better than the first and the third even more.   

In the news you keep hearing about people being awarded Doctorates. Jayalalitha, Amitabh Bachchan , Akshay and Shah Rukh among others. I am no one to say if they deserved it or not, however  have decided to institute and award my own Doctorate to Preeti. She not only deserves it in her own right but also ensures that part of my own desire gets fulfilled – i.e. being married to a Doctor. (Should have waited till 2.30 in the night to award it, but did not know the technicalities of feeding the post into her blog, nor her password and in any case she would have been awake. So what the hell, I might as well award it now and await my turn to be woken up at night)

It’s been 15 years since we got married and if I had to rewind the clock again and decide whether to marry a Doctor or Preeti, I would choose her again and again a hundred times over.

Preeti, the kids and I and all your friends are extremely proud of you, your achievements and the fact that in spite of everything you still remain the same person you were 15 years back. And while we are here, let me take another bet which again I say without any doubt in my mind– you will soon become the author of an International Best Seller and I may be able to write yet another guest post.

Guys – this post is not all about Preeti. Let me tell you I too am artistic. I have painted a wall sometime in the past where the colour had come off (did look a bit like what Michelangelo did I must say but this wasn’t on the Sistine chapel but on the garden wall) Besides, I did write  this post too and given the fact that the blogosphere is large and Preeti’s fan following is great am willing to take the risk that the post would be a hit. So there!!!