First come, first serve

It used to be an amateur dream of every pair of teenage eyes once upon a time to find "the" soulmate, fall in love and live happily ever after. However, if you come to think of it, it seems nothing more than a fairy tale today, when sometimes people use relationships as "hops", as one of my friends calls it. I don't beileve in the concept of so-called soulmates. I think you can get along with a number of people, some of them might be a lot like you, while others might be in complete contrast. A few of these can be people you really click with. It's not that you can fall in love with only one of these in all your life. It's just a matter of who you met first.

So, in my opinion, there's no such thing as soulmates, it's rather a sheer matter of chance. Another one of life's concepts you can easily map to the principles of computer science, it's a FCFS (First-Come-First-Serve) queueing algorithm.

My Best Friend's Wedding

Jan 12, 2008

Sitting all the way in the back, I could see him looking straight into his bride's eyes. He was looking his best in the black tuxedo, and nothing would match the serenity of the ceremony, the flowing white silk of the bride's dress, the beauty behind the white veil. Nobody could be better made for each other than these two.

The total silence surrounding the verses being read out from the Bible by the pastor brought you yet closer to realizing that you were in the presence of real and pure love .. something that makes you realize a wedding is not just a party, it is a union of two lives, two individuals, two souls.

The wedding vows were made next, followed by the most beautiful pair of words "I do". Everybody around was asked to bless the couple after being asked for affirmation about the union. I would have felt at a loss of words, were I asked to put their wishes for the couple in words. The wedding bands were exchanged after that.

While my friend then raised her veil, all of us sang prayers from the Church prayer books (I doubt if they call'em that). Neither did I know the music for them, nor could I read the music notes written on top, so I pretty much just read along, while the choir took care of the singing.

Next the pastor gave out a few pearls of wisdom to the newly weds, and told how he had known my friend ever since he was a kid.

At last, the newly-wed couple offerred a prayer together and walked out of the church into their new life hand-in-hand, beaming with happiness.