Marriage....?? No way...??

Marriage – is a magnanimous happening in everyone’s life. Some want it, some don’t want it, and some just don’t know. And amidst all those, there are some who are fringing' desperate for it. For no apparent reason. Just for the heck of it. Read on, you’ll get the picture.

A friend of mine called up the other day. We were talking after a long time. Off late, her parents have been on the look out for a suitable groom for her. And I have been hearing from her about it since a year now. I aint that dead against the whole concept of arranged marriage, though I’d like to know the guy first; so I ask her about the guys she’s meeting and stuff almost every time we talk. So far she hasn’t met one decent guy, and the ones she’s liked haven’t liked her. Strange irony!

Anyway, don’t get the idea that this is going to be about the concept of arranged marriage, and neither am I going to invite any views or opinions here. This is about something else entirely, which it seems at the moment the whole blogger community is whining at the moment. Almost all are going through heart-breaks, almost all are sick coz they’re lonely, and all, including me, are dazed with the utopia called love – togetherness – companionship – betrothal…just whatever you choose to call it.
So this friend I was telling you about, irritated me no ends today with her ultra-juvenile thinking, at the matured age of 24. Instead of describing the whole conversation let me just put it there, in my typical style.

Angel: So, met any new guy?
Friend: Yeah, met one yesterday afternoon over lunch. It was nice, we kind of gelled. He’s like us only. And he’s only 2 years older to me.
Angel: That’s nice. So whaddya think ?
Friend: I dunno man. I just wanna get married, that’s all.

**Man ! Another despo !**

Angel: But why the hell are you so worried? What are you only 28!
Friend: Girl, 28 is old ok. It’s high time I got married.

**Wtf !! She reminded me of the intense scene in Hitch (Will smith – Eva Mendez) where Hitch’s come to talk to Eva for the last time, at the speed-dating place, and there is this woman who gets very irritated with his intervention at the game, and bursts out aloud: “ Excuse me we are to play the game here and I HAVENT GOTTEN LAID IN A YEAR !!!!” Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!! But then Angel sobers up fast and says,**

Angel: Hello! You make 28 sound like 82. Life’s just begun girl. You would have some reason to be worried if you would have been like 32-34, coz loneliness does get to you.
Friend: No girl, that’s not the thing. A cousin of mine recently got married. She’s 3 months younger to me. And I am the only one left. Also in my work-place I am the only single girl. Two are engaged and the rest are married.

**See, I was right! Man!! Can somebody surprise me any more?**

Angel: OMG!! I can’t believe you of all people are talking in such juvenile way!! What rubbish!! So you mean to say that, since that your cousins are married, all your female colleagues are two-somes, that’s drives you want to get married ?!

**Now, this really pissed her off, but the nail had hit the right spot! And whaddya do when that happens? Yeah, get defensive! And that’s what she did to my devilish amusement. Angel - you evil evil girl !**

Friend: No, I dint mean that. You won’t understand girl. When you're the only one left in the family left to be wed, and you're getting across the right age, people start talking about you, tell your parents about you and stuff. And then your cousins and friends are all having a good time and you are getting old.

**There they go again. I don’t understand, why? Coz I aint single. Bull-crap. Right age?! I thought it was about the right guy/girl. And people?! Who the hell cares about what people say? Its 2008 for Chris sake!**

Angel: Oh please, don’t you-wont-understand-girl me! You’re plain desperate for love, for companionship, so don’t blame it on age coz 28 is nothing, and don’t blame it on the crappy concept of your cousins and colleagues.
** But this fumed her none-the-less. Me and my mouth.**
Friend: I am not desperate girl. Why should I be? I am just tired of seeing guys.
**and rejecting, getting rejected, and not finding a decent one in one friggin’ year. Aaaaaa….somebody get me a male specimen. I wanna get married/kissed/romped… !!!**

Angel: Don’t worry you will get one. Give it sometime. And enjoy your single status girl. For once you give it away; you can never get it back again. I for one, never got to know what being single means, and now there is no way of knowing it.

At this point she decided to change the topic ruefully. But I was already too pissed, and so was she. Thank god, soon after she said, I’ll call you later and hung up. I was like, ~Thank the heavens!