Blogging can at times be a bit too dangerous… just like what I got to know. My wife [jeez… I am used to writing it as “my girl”; now its “my wife” – she has got a promotion] kind of follows my blog on a regular basis. Off late she had been asking me why I haven’t written anything for a long duration of time. This happened before the posting of my previous post. I didn’t tell it to her as well that I have a new one posted. Today morning, she said to me that she has read my new blog. I gave her an “hmm…” and waited for the next part from her. This is the time when I get to hear all the comments about the blog. My wait extended a bit more than what was usual; and then I fired a look to her as if saying – “Come on, what’s next… how was it??” All I got in return was a stare…. And when my stare persisted for a bit longer; she retorted “what have you written in the blog… For anyone reading that blog, it would sound as if you have sacrificed a whole lot of things; and given up a whole lot of stuff for living with me”; and then she turned back and went ahead with her “getting ready to office” part.

The immediate thought that went through me was – what did I write so badly that she felt so very offended? I didn’t have any response to her either. So I took the obvious option out – I went ahead and read my previous post. This was a first of its sort… I have never ever read anything that I have written in my blog. While reading that post, I realized how tough it is on people who read it… [Thanks to all who seem to have enormous patience to go ahead and read my blog]. Dissection of each individual lines in that post followed. I completed reading it once… didn’t find anything objectionable in that post; and said the same to Amms. She was getting livid with my response – no sign of any remorse!!! So she made me read that passage again; this time she sat along with me while reading it. She took serious exception at the statement “Its some sort of a culture shock at times; where you are made to believe that you were wrong the way you are” in that post. I thought about it again; still I didn’t find anything wrong in that; nor did I feel that the above statement echoed a sentiment that I have to sacrifice lots of things in my married life. All I could give was a bland look to her face. I guess that irritated her more; and she just walked away.

My next attempt was to see if that line indeed was offensive or not… My repeated attempts ended in the negative, as I couldn’t find any offense in that line. My intention of writing that line was that, there is a significant difference in the way I do things these days. Maybe the meaning got a bit implicit behind those lines; and that was why she interpreted it that way. Perceptions do matter – don’t they? The same line got interpreted in two different ways – absolutely divergent… Since we had decided amongst ourselves not to carry forward any of the differences in opinion; we left the issue there; and proceeded to our offices!!!