I don’t know what direction my life is taking up. All I know is that I am going to be married soon and that too to a guy I used to hate like anything. A guy for whom I developed a positive inclination only a few weeks back. And, I am making compromises in my career only to be with him. He, who is now my significant other,.

I never thought someone could change my life upside down, the way he did. My principles, priorities, likes and dislikes changed. And all of it was done so beautifully and poetically and I could never complain. I am in a spell and I have no desire to come out of it.

While going through my journal today, I felt a huge gap between what I am now and what I was previously.

What am I? An IITian? A software professional? A writer? A girl hopeless in love or a complete idiot? I do not know. Or Perhaps I do, but I really don’t care.

How did I reach here? It seems like only yesterday that I was working comfortably with a software firm. I was doing well. I was enjoying my job. I was working with team members who were more of friends than colleagues.

I was living with Dahaliya and Irim who were my friends as well as roommates. We could relate well to each other for all of us were going through the similar challenges in lives. All of us were vying to make a place for ourselves in the outside world. We were discovering the world and ourselves. We had fun living together.

I was engrossed in preparing for CAT and GMAT while pursing a full time job. I had already cracked GRE, TOEFL and GATE during my final year at IIT Roorkee but deciding against pursuing higher studies in my core field of Civil Engineering. Software Engineering and Management seemed more lucrative.

The days were passing by calmly, until the day he arrived on scene and turned around my life upside down.

It must be the month of November when I first saw him. We had a lot of new joiners in our account that month. “An account” was a group of projects which catered to the same client. I was working for a Data Warehousing project at Ananta Technologies for a luxury Cruise Liner called Capricorn. Looking at the good work my company had done for them, Capricorn decided to delegate their upcoming projects to Ananta. There was expansion in most of teams and that meant more new joiners.

One of the new joiners was a medium built, fair guy with a happy go lucky kind of attitude about him. He had...