La Dolce Vita

I love all things Italian - handbags , soccer team , gondolas , wine and especially food .
Bruschetta , Ravioli , Gnocchi , Tiramisu ,Vino ..we love you all .

Italian dinner was the best part of my otherwise crazy saturday .
Italian food isnt something I can enjoy eating with a stranger , acquaintance or co worker .
Its has to be special , close friends , family , soulmates and best friends . I have to feel the love and the passion
..only then does the dining experience come even close to living upto its potential .
I just cant say Tiramisu in front of someone I dont know :)
It doesnt work like that in my world .

I remember the first italian restaurant I ate at in Bombay ,,,Little Italy . Tucked in a quiet corner on Juhu Tara Road.I've eaten at several places between then and now ..but Little Italy still serves the best Tiramisu I've ever had .
But then again ..like one of my really close friends once said ..sometimes its got little to do with the food and everything to do with the company .

Today we ate at another Little Italy . In a quiet corner of Buckhead . Maggiano's Little Italy . Over a bottle of zinfandel and close friends , the evening seemed to end far before it should have maybe .

It made me think about time ..and all the times my friends have sat an held my hand while I tried to make sense of things in my life ..never letting go ..Times when we've laughed so hard and cried even harder .
Time - thats has sometimes been a friend and sometimes been a foe . Which is constantly fleeting and reminding ..about dreams unfulfilled , days outlived and promises outnumbered , goals accomplished , relationships strengthened and souls fostered ,
Time - that has crawled and crept and then sometimes fled and spun me around in circles.
Time that made adults out of adolescents , friends out of strangers and years out of minutes .
Waqt , Samay , Temps and what not - Jo sabh ke paas hai ..Aur Kise ke paas Nahi .
The Gift of Time .

..and then again ..sometimes when all is right in the skies ...it does stand still ..maybe for the briefest of instants ..or a dinner maybe and you know that eventually everythings going to be okay .
Time and God withstanding .