Now that we all are "Market Ready"...

M.Tech 2^nd year? Oh that’s so perfect time to start  finding a groom for our little girl, said my aunt last year. My god, that almost made my heart skip a beat.

My dad handled it well with “let her finish her studies. Whats the hurry?”  Thanks dad.  And… few days passed…

Placed in Oracle?? My other cousins’ husband’s brother’s son is in Oracle too. When will your term get over? Where will you be posted? Hyderabad or Bangalore? Asked my aunt again. -let me get the offer letter aunty, relax.

And that auspicious day came when I finished the college finally! Official now, bakra tayyar hogaya halal hone :P

Well, I am told everyone needs a partner in life, fair enough. At some point of time we all need to face the reality of life called “marriage”. Its destined, just like harry potter was destined to meet voldemort! Er.. bad example ok ok.. coming back to point, there are so many notions about marriage. Learned say its like a laddu- khaya toh problem, na khaya toh problem. And now that we all are “market ready”, there are lot funny things happening around us, which surely we all will remember and laugh about in few years from now.. it’s a period of tension for some, while fun time for others.. and for me, craving for logic in everything that happens in life, this is the funniest ever time :P

Boy is an engineer.  Girl is a doctor. Boy is in America. Girl is very beautiful. Can you send me the boy’s pic? Can u send me the girl’s pic-one in saree and one in salvar? Duh.. must be very common with you if you belong to my age. Clearly everyone else is more interested in getting you married than you. And sometimes it pisses you off and you say-I am just out of college give me a break! And elders tell you, you are too young to tell them what they should do or not do and of course they remind you that you don’t know life yet(but you are perhaps old enough to get married).

You have more problems if your parents are on Facebook. You have to carefully like your friend’s marriage pics else wish them in private messages(I choose this). Now that all wickets are falling one by one, I mean now that my friends are getting married one after another and your parents know it, their worries are multiplying. Your classmate Supriya got married no? Her birthday was three four months after yours right? yes.. but she was born the previous year, I lie.

Little exaggerated here though, but friends, all of us are facing this in our own ways may be in different magnitudes. It is funny at times irritating at other.  Arranged marriages are bad I concluded!!!!

Here I was wishing - if only I had heeded to some kind people who dared to propose me in the past. Some old crushes passed through my mind like credits at the end of a movie(not UV or Virat though, they never proposed me). if only I had fallen in love with someone! may be I would have saved myself from all this.. Damn.. why didn’t I?? I asked my dad. yea correct, I asked my dad.

What happened to that guy who proposed to you in school?? U made him brother? Dad started teasing me. And what about that tall guy in college, you told him not to talk to you ever again right? Lol.. dad knows everything! And thanks to my recent fb post, dad even knows UV!

I am so blessed to have such a cool parents, I share almost everything with them, specially my dad. But I was literally sad.. Why arranged marriage for me?? Love marriage is better no!!!!! I was putting across my own theories about the same..

well, God has his own ways to confuse us.. My phone rang and my friend suddenly started crying her eyes out crashing my ear dumb-"I don’t wanto live."

What.. kya huwa??, I asked

"I cant live without him.. and we cant get married.." sob sob.. more sobs… and she broke out asking me what should she do?

I consoled her and told her we will think on what they should do, and convinced her that I am with her whatever be her decision and ended the call..

Not funny I know.. but er pardon me, stupidest thing it is…!!!!!!!!

But for me, Oh ya… that was a nice, much needed reminder about the love marriage!! Now, if you are in love with someone, story is little different  but trust me, no less interesting than the one I told about arranged marriages. You might be having your own drama live at your home - How can you marry someone not from our cast? What?? He earns lesser than you? She doesn’t speak our language? 

Well, again everyone else is more worried about your marriage than you. same story here too. In short band bajne wali hai, phanda tayyar hai!!! All you need to do now is say yes :P what do you do now? Where do you go?

I hear a lot from my friends about their fear of marriage, thoughts of losing their bfs/gfs, their 10 year old love story, and their concerns about how to spend life with an unknown guy/girl. majority are worried how to tell about their bfs/gfs at home. What if parents reject him/her is haunting them. and some great people are still searching for girl friends. In short we all are in that age, where “sab ki band baji huyi hai” :P what do we do now? Escpe or face?

Well, I say enjoy it. J Life has no guaranty. I know this from the day when I saw my parents meet a road accident in front of my eyes. That day haunts me even today at times. I can’t forget that moment, but that incident has strengthened my belief in god beyond limits. You never know what life has for you tomorrow, so live the most of it each day, everyday! dad tells me- its not about the money, its about the happiness.. its not about how successful you are, its about how happy that success has made you.. and I completely agree with him. stress, uncertainties, unknown scary future are all going to be with you all the time, there is no escape. So let the life take its way. be smart, be careful, be cautious, think before you act. But enjoy too. Because this time will never come again J all I want to say is (especially to the girl who called me and cried, to you my friend)–trust an unknown future to a known god, everything happens for good! J 

On this very beautiful age, let me dedicate a song to myself  /* and the ppl out there who empathize with me */

Naaa, naa na naa.. na na naaa, naa na na..

Hope u got the song! :P

Cheers :D