I m 25 years old and this is the part of my life where I hear friends and family tying knots left right and center. Everyday my mailbox welcomes me by showing me an engagement invitation (Boy! You should look at the vocabulary, straight from Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower). I wonder why people are in so much hurry to get married. After all, there are other ways to kill time.
It is strange to see how life changes after that one day called “wedding”. Not that I have personally experienced it (which I don’t want anytime soon), but the fairy-tale like accounts of rendezvous I hear these days made me say that. I was surprised to see majority of these marriages were arranged, since I thought that the ‘happily ever after’ epoch comes only after a larger-than-life love story.The knot not only affects those who are tying it, but also the people around them. You can no longer make any weekend plan involving your newly wed friends since they cant get enough of each other to even get a little of you.
You can’t call them either as the phone will always be busy (Damn Reliance and Docomo!). I guess they find a mate and you lose one. That’s the way it goes.
The life goes on as always and you begin to think whether your life with those friends will ever be like it used to be. Moments of delight, togetherness, bonding and even clashes (which later made the friendship even stronger) passes through your mind. You try to seize the moment, try to lower the pace of time, try to relive the past but the saddest part is it’s all over, and you know it.
Since that’s the way things always turn out, it’s better to join the enemy if you can’t defeat them. So where’s my better half ;)
3 comments:
People don't marry to kill time!! Why do you think who are about to get married seem like they are living in a trance... I guess there must be something nice about marriage.. Try it!!
Ha nice comment..But the strange thing is this is the social rule, we all need to accept..and after sometime it becomes a responsiblity.. ;)
The trance is just an ephemeral fire of merriment which extinguish as fast as it gains ground. The initial pleasure is because of some obvious short term joy a spouse may bring about (lets not dig it deeper ;) ) but after few years its all mundane. That might sound too pessimistic but isn’t that’s the way things are around? And if that’s the case why go over the top for something that will get u under the floor eventually.
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