Everybody I know (or don’t know) is getting married. It’s almost like a new trend. Just now Amit told me, Abhishek is getting married today. What is wrong with everybody?
Can you believe, most of the forwards circulated, much talked about topic is “the ill effects of marriage”, even then people don’t learn. Why wouldn’t they listen? If they are blinded and deafen by, the so called, LOVE, I can understand. But why otherwise? I have heard there is no freedom of speech after marriage, there is continuous nagging and 24X7 demanding after marriage, no limit to expectations. I have also heard, girls tend to eat more and gain weight after marriage. Why would you want to give up all your freedom, shopping, dancing, camping with friends, clean house, never cooking, no arguments, travel, entire bed, and high self esteem?
In any other relationship, at least there is a way out, but there isn’t any in marriage. Maybe that’s why it’s called “Wedlock”. Two people are locked in it forever.
If two people are truly in LOVE and know they are made for each other, well and good. They have all the reasons to marry as soon as they get “License to Wed”. But if they are not in love, the only reasons I can think of, for them to get married at an early age are: Most of them are true for women.
1. Parental pressure
2. Want to live an easy life by marrying a millionaire
3. Bored of working. Now want to quit and sit back at home and relax.
4. Pressure from society. When you see all your friends getting married and don’t want fingers to be pointed at you.
5. Love attending weddings, so thought of attending your own wedding. This would include love getting dressed up.
6. When nobody listens to you, and you have a feeling that at least after marriage your partner would.
7. To kill boredom and loneliness
8. To find a bunch of whole new relatives. You get a mother, a father, a few sisters-in-law, half dozen cousins, and countless relatives for free. Basically to socialize. These relatives could also help you with your career.
9. Because it’s one of those logical steps in the sequence of life. Check job, check car, check marriage.
10. Want to give it a shot
11. For all the gifts you will get at the wedding.
“Wise men say, only fools rush in”. Wise men also say the following:
Quote 1: After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.
Quote 2: “I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn’t.”
Quote 3: I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Quote 4: The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Don't mess with me
Somebody had said “Revenge is a dish best served cold” and they are still trying to find out who said it. Don’t believe me? Check out Wikipedia’s page on ‘revenge’.
In all years of my life, I have had my share of revenges. It all began when I was in class three and somebody stole my scented erasers. In those days, relatives coming from countries like Singapore and Malaysia would hand us cylindrical, scented erasers in fancy plastic containers. The containers would be in various shapes…and mine was a pink peacock. I remember the eraser being a major hit in my class.
As luck would have it, I lost it after a few weeks. An average eight-years-old girl would have suspected the whole World if she lost her scented eraser. But not me, Sir. We Jamwals know our enemies when we see them…and that’s why I zeroed in on my classmate Akanksha Dutta (Name changed to keep the identity a secret). She was the only suspect because my peacock shaped scented eraser had dethroned her Mickey Mouse eraser!
Back then, I didn’t know that revenge was a dish best served cold…so I decided to act the same day.
I laid out my plans. I couldn’t steal her Mickey Mouse eraser because I would have been the prime suspect. I couldn’t cut her eraser into two because the whole class knew that I carried a Topaz blade in my geometry box. And I couldn’t draw moustache on her Mickey Mouse eraser container because I only had sketch pens which were not permanent and she would have easily washed it clean.
After days of thinking, my plan was devised. On the D-day, when Akanksha was not near her geometry box, I stole the scented eraser but left the Mickey Mouse container intact. This was to give her the false impression that she still had her eraser.
The moment I stole the eraser, I placed it in water so that it lost its scent. After having her eraser submerged in water for 24 hours, I placed it back in her Mickey Mouse like container. For days after that, Akanksha went around telling people that her scented rubber didn’t smell of mint as it used to. I just smiled.
After that, I have taken revenge at all phases of my life. I have locked up a girl in her hostel room and threw the keys, I made a doll out of a black sock and put it outside another girls’ room to make her believe that she was haunted, I have punctured tires, I have written scary anonymous letters and much more.
The moment I post graduated, I thought all the revenge taking would end. But, to my surprise, it still continues. A colleague has managed to fan the flames. Now I have to think of some cleverer tricks (Which I shall put up after another 20 years).
In all years of my life, I have had my share of revenges. It all began when I was in class three and somebody stole my scented erasers. In those days, relatives coming from countries like Singapore and Malaysia would hand us cylindrical, scented erasers in fancy plastic containers. The containers would be in various shapes…and mine was a pink peacock. I remember the eraser being a major hit in my class.
As luck would have it, I lost it after a few weeks. An average eight-years-old girl would have suspected the whole World if she lost her scented eraser. But not me, Sir. We Jamwals know our enemies when we see them…and that’s why I zeroed in on my classmate Akanksha Dutta (Name changed to keep the identity a secret). She was the only suspect because my peacock shaped scented eraser had dethroned her Mickey Mouse eraser!
Back then, I didn’t know that revenge was a dish best served cold…so I decided to act the same day.
I laid out my plans. I couldn’t steal her Mickey Mouse eraser because I would have been the prime suspect. I couldn’t cut her eraser into two because the whole class knew that I carried a Topaz blade in my geometry box. And I couldn’t draw moustache on her Mickey Mouse eraser container because I only had sketch pens which were not permanent and she would have easily washed it clean.
After days of thinking, my plan was devised. On the D-day, when Akanksha was not near her geometry box, I stole the scented eraser but left the Mickey Mouse container intact. This was to give her the false impression that she still had her eraser.
The moment I stole the eraser, I placed it in water so that it lost its scent. After having her eraser submerged in water for 24 hours, I placed it back in her Mickey Mouse like container. For days after that, Akanksha went around telling people that her scented rubber didn’t smell of mint as it used to. I just smiled.
After that, I have taken revenge at all phases of my life. I have locked up a girl in her hostel room and threw the keys, I made a doll out of a black sock and put it outside another girls’ room to make her believe that she was haunted, I have punctured tires, I have written scary anonymous letters and much more.
The moment I post graduated, I thought all the revenge taking would end. But, to my surprise, it still continues. A colleague has managed to fan the flames. Now I have to think of some cleverer tricks (Which I shall put up after another 20 years).
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