Hum do hamare do.

The eternal search.. First you search for that best friend in your toddler years, then you search for cool people to hang out with when you r growing up, then you look for that special someone, then you look for cool people to hang out with, then you search for the perfect someone to spend the rest of your life, then you look for someone cool to hang out with....

Do you see a pattern here ??? I do.. With lives taking so many turns and taking us to all those places, its very difficult to keep in touch with your friends, leave alone be in the same zip code...It just ends up with you trying to probably meet up over some long weekend once in 6 months...But obviously thats not the same as having people /friends close by you can hang around with..

With all the places I've been to, especially since I was living alone, it was a challenge to find friends. After a while, you tend to give up on the so called 'friends' category of people and you make do with the bearably cool ones you can spend friday/saturday evenings with. Well.. suffice to say its been a challenge.. but not been bad.. Maybe its good luck, but I have always managed to find people I could hang around with.. Its not always easy and sometimes you have to go through a lot of trial and errors..Sometimes you just hafta grin and bear whatever shape and size they come in...

But nothing prepared me for this.. The eternal search for the perfect cool couple to hang around with.. When you are a couple, sometimes you want to be with other couples, its just natural.. I think everybody goes thru that..Its just that we hadn't gone thru it before...You see, last few months were really the only times we actually stayed together sans me getting packed off to another city.. So, its been great and all that.. But... after a while, you want to reach out you know.. you want to make new friends.. you want to call people over and you want to go out with company..

Since I have no patience with the so called W fraternity we have going on everywhere, its just that much more difficult to find or meet people elsewhere.. I don't think I ever had this problem in b'lore, there were always people around, singles, not so singles and couples! Lots!

But now, I just don;t know how to tackle this problem.. I have half the mind to put up an ad that says - Need cool couples to hang out with, with these these an these qualifications.

What ? You thought there weren't any qualifications required ?? Think again mister! We have a strict filtering system in place here :)) In fact my hubby calls it the nose system, my nose goes up in the air everytime i meet a couple who r sooo sooo not cool !! :(( From across the room, he can make out if I have got along with anybody or not...

Well, its not like I am picky, but come on.. people gotta have some style man! I belive in impressions and the choice of clothes and topics to talk about really indicates the kind of personality you have (or the lack of :p)

So, theres been a round of filtering in the last so called Diwali party we had, where there were these tons of couples to chose from.. But its sad coz, sometimes the guy is creepy or the gal has a really bad taste in shoes! Its a miserable state of affairs here...

How on earth do you find that couple you can get along with, when you have a list thats as long as the great wall .. Good taste in shoes an clothes, a so called intellectual bent of mind, someone who knows his finances (yes, thats something hubby seems to like, don't ask me its a mystery to me too), people who do not associate having a couple of drinks with alcoholism, someone who likes shopping and most importantly people who like and can appreciate good music..

See, thats not a bad list at all.. in theory that is...But when it comes to reality, you will be surprised to find how far from theory people really are.. You will meet couples who are either too mushy and gushy (yuk yuk yuk !) or couples who are completely wound up around their li'l kids! Its just so tough to find sane couples anymore..

Ahh... maybe one of these days....