The gift!

The Best Friend of my best friend is going to get married. She is of my age, of course. The big deal about this is, what I heard about some gifts which she sent to her fiance.

The thing is, only 57 days are to go before the marriage-day finally arrives. Her mother is to go to Delhi for some marriage related work and she will meet her son-in-law-to-be in two days time. So, the mathematics suggests, only 55 days will remain after that.

Now this friend of friend of mine, has sent 55 roses. Moreover, she has sent a mirror which will imply that the receiver has to keep the person, seen in the mirror, always happy. [??]. She has also packed a chocolate with some kind of milk, which is supposed to remind him to take care of himself. This too has got some logic behind, which I, being a lesser-mortal, couldn't understand. A photo album too finds a place in that huge bag, full of gifts. In this album she has arranged her photos in direct chronological order. Photos, from the very beginning of her life to those done very recently, are there in that album. The idea is, it will help him reduce the extent to which he misses her.

The list would have gone long. Damn! I changed the topic.

But, seriously speaking, I was terrified. I just thought what would I do if my fiancee does the some thing with me? What if she overwhelms me with those 100-days-to-go gifts? How would I react to this? How would I show happiness by receiving those gifts and how would I not tell her "what was the need of doing all this?" How would I not laugh at this?

I guess, at this point of time, I can not understand the importance of all such things. I can not understand what does his happiness and well being mean to her. I can not understand what does this gap of 55-days mean for them. That is why all these things, all these thematic/romantic gifts, seem a little too much to me.

And I blame only myself for this insensitivity. But, I am sure, a time will come which will turn a person as insensitive as I am, into a sensitive one, and only then, I will be able to understand those emotions hidden behind those gifts.

(P.S.: Not a single word in this post is meant to hurt anyone in any way. These are purely my feelings about something, which I could not anyway share with anyone)