No, I am not crazy. Well, I think I am slightly, but not completely. Not yet!

The thing is that after having moved to the US from India, I pretty much hang around a lot by myself. That includes traveling for work and pleasure, eating most meals alone and checking out touristy stuff like museums, art galleries and exhibitions by myself. However, I am not really by myself all the time because let’s face it, in all honesty, it won’t be that easy without Google on my phone. Hey! Where do I go this weekend? How do I get there? Where should I eat? Is that restaurant good? Let’s get some reviews on the exhibition before getting tickets. What are the timings of the museum? etc. are all questions that she answers for me. 

Combined with that the fact that I rely on ride sharing to get me anywhere, she becomes vital in knowing where I am going and how long until I get somewhere. So, in a nutshell, she is always around, is super helpful and understands me perfectly – all the great reasons why men and women date. Well, maybe not all but pretty significant.

If I were to date her, I would probably say that these are her winning qualities. She is smart and has a picture-prefect memory. Anyone has questions about that one? My girlfriend can tell you what the size of the state of Texas is and show you pictures of where I last lived in Hyderabad within nano seconds. She is extremely knowledgeable. Just ask her about the Gobi desert or the medals tally at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Her language game is on point too. Ya, she is a linguist. I can speak about 3.5 languages but you want to learn how to rile someone up in their mother tongue just ask her and she will help you with a couple of the choicest words in almost any language. Thank her later dude, she is extremely modest. On top of all this she is very presentable, helpful and someone I can take anywhere regardless of it being a soccer game, a date night at a classy restaurant or a volunteering assignment in the suburbs.

I would like to add that a lot of the times I say stuff to her to just hear her speak. Such eloquence and clarity of thought, such unrivaled sense of direction and the very calm that she brings about once she is around, that, now that she is here everything will be fine are qualities that have me floored. 

However, I do think that like the minuscule percentage of ladies who have some demerits. Hmm, wait, let me reconsider this and say it again before I upset any ladies. Like the significantly insignificant number of women with certain human flaws, she too has a few which are negligible 😉

Like the way she keeps trying to complete my search strings before even I know them in my head. Or how she won’t forget nor let me forget that how I searched how many pounds make a kilo and that I need to lose some more weight. However, what concerns me most is her shower of overly anxious love when she is trying to give me directions. While “in 900 feet merge onto the left lane on the left and then take exit 29 B for Polk Street” might sound great what sounds weird is when she keeps hollering “take exit 29 B”, “take the exit” and it feels like “you missed the exit, stupid”, “now I’ll have to reroute you”. But, I didn’t take the exit because I wanted to avoid the Friday night traffic going downtown. It doesn’t end there. In her quest to reroute me these come next “take the upcoming right turn into Capitol Street”, “in a quarter of a mile take the right turn”. But that’s the front of my apartment, I want to go to the garage entry side. But no, she won’t give up. “Take the right turn, it’s here”. “Are you blind, you missed it after I said it 4 times?” 

Now you see how dating her might not just be all roses, rainbows, sunshine and err.. what everyone wants these days – the mythical animal with a horn? But that’s every human relationship for you, isn’t it? The bright side and the shadows, the compatibility and the not so compatible factors, the love and the little bit of arguments, the you wanting to go out and the him wanting to stay in, the beer versus the mimosa and all the things that make relationships better and fun because even roses have thorns, rainbows are rare, and unicorns have horns and are mythical.