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Simms turns 40 - My Gift to You

When I had to think about a gift that would suit Simms milestone birthday this year, nothing could beat her recent request - for me to put in words, what SHE, meant to me.

Simms not only celebrates a major milestone this year, but as a Couple, we do too - Her 40th coincides with the 15 that we have spent together as a couple.

Simms and I met under ordinary circumstances, introduced through friends, platonic for the longest time. She needed to move to Mumbai, while I helped her settle down, she planned to set me up with a friend of hers. Long story short, we hooked up instead - 15 years and counting.

Even though we knew each other for years, this is when I truly started to get to know Simrita!!

Smart, Confident, assertive, a truly extrovert girl - Simms is one who's always known exactly what she wants from life - personally and professionally - She's a go-getter, who has the guts and grit enough to work towards achieving her goals.

The kind of person who likes to be surrounded by family and friends and is protective of those close to her. A softy for all things romantic, she is a practical chic and not a pushover by any standards.

A livewire, she can light up a room as she walks in - call me biased, but Simms can be the life of a party and loves to live it up. She's is a true Surd at heart and in soul and carries her attitude in style.

Simms has an infectious energy about her, a Charmer, and makes friends easily; She can get along with almost anyone and has a keen interest and curiosity to learn about any person she meets, well beyond the mundane.

She has a tremendous memory, and remembers the minutest of details, birthdays, anniversaries, conversations, anything remotely important - incidents that no one would remember. Though as you can imagine, this brilliant characteristic of hers doesn't really work much to my advantage, especially during arguments.

A pure soul with an even purer heart, Simms is a friend that I trust to call me out when required and never sugar coat anything. I trust her to never leave an issue or argument unsettled, however uncomfortable.

She’s a poet and a dancer at heart - she'd be a superb artist, if she let that super smart and practical head or hers, take it easy every once a while.

Simms taught me how to fight a real fight, how to be ok with confrontations, how to hold an argument, how to be assertive, but most importantly, how to wave the white flag, call a truce, let go, hug and make up.

Even after all these years, we still argue, we fight, she knows how to press my buttons and get on my nerves, but Simms also knows how to make me smile, get me out of my moods when I'm at my lowest - she knows exactly how to melt my heart.

She makes me the person I am today, she taught me the importance to keep learning and growing as an individual and encourages me to invest time in my interests and relationships. 

She on the other hand believes she has no passion, without realising that she thrives to ensure that she does and delivers everything to perfection - whether at work or at home – in her writing, bringing up Myra, tending to the folks she loves, genuinely connecting with all the people around her. She plays every role with completed and utter dedication, committed mother, daughter, wife and a true friend.

We have always been best friends more than a spouse to each other. Today we are lucky to have family and a very close set of friends who mean the world to us - for which we are grateful. But every now and again, we crave for a little time together, just the two of us, to talk, to gossip, to share our thoughts, our fears and sometimes just our silence.

They say, "Opposites Attract" - I guess THEY are right. Somewhere through our journey we realised that we may be different in our personality types, but we couldn't be more similar, in our values, our beliefs, our principles and our trust and love for one another.

They also say that once you are married, you adjust, you compromise, you change for the other, I guess we did too, not in our attempt to change the other, but to help bring out the better in one another.

Simms, for everything you are to me – I thank you and I love you!!