Wedding bells!!!!
I have a time course experiment running with an all day-all night long, free time to do whatever I want. So here goes an account of recent observations. dont sleep on me, pls.
Situation 1:
Girl seems extremely handicapped and her husband acts as if he could be next advisor to Obama. Girl- thrilled that her husband owns a Japanese car (psst...she doesnt know the loan balance yet), says "alrighty then" when he hangs up the phone and orders "baked bean burrito- NO MEAT" with style and grace. He suddenly starts having all three meals a day (HAHAHA cynical laugh). Girl thinks Guy is charming intelligent and interesting. He should be, his profile says he treks, loves long distant drives, camping, bikes, loves surfing (does he actually surf or just likes watching it???!!!) and most of all cooks. Now which Indian male does that?
Yes, I am being extremely cynical of marriages across oceans happening over the phone. My only problem is that still most Indian women dont have one with this set up. If someone can tell me, dont worry they are great, or if these girls could tell me "We were totally prepared for this" I wouldnt buy it. Well, all relationships survive past hurdles or are really made of them, but the typified arranged marriaged USPS shipped Indian women mostly seem to have extravagant ideas, not of United states per say, but of the men they are marrying. Their parents are no exception.
ok now, Situation2:
"Well, 25% of the smart women are either married or engaged, another 25% dont want to date me or I dont want to date (cos they are too smart for me to handle or are Carrie Bradshaw types), the other 25%, am hoping exist". Does this sound cliche? Have you heard it from too many of your guy friends who just use euphemism to say I am a loser? ;-). Well, I dont mean that, I respect this category more than the above. I have started to hear a lot of this from the Indian women folk too. A part of me is extremely happy, yes we are getting there. But I get annoyed when i hear a comment like "Have you seen the way he puts his hand on his hips while waiting, its too gay and I dont think I can continue this relationship." Well yeah literally! This is the crowd who are always in search of Mr/Ms.Right (ppl,dont say look who is talking), have commitment problems, love being alone, cannot share ward robes or cannot stand the other's furniture taste. Well being alone, I can see how people get there. So my empathies with them!
Situation3: (my favourite)
Guy meets girl in school/college/is neighbour/is cousin's friend/friend's cousin/29C/sarang ..., they get along really well, somewhere down the line (or in the beginning itself) a spark happens, they think they are made for each other, survive hardships, fight for their relationship at home, survive long distances and then get married. O.k, I can see eye brows raised. Why I envy this relationship so much is because they know no one other than each other, have grown to adjust with everything, from the beginning have over-looked petite flaws, most of all realise what you are in for (atleast these days) and still stick on to it. Do these relationships even exist these days?
situation 4:
Ahem.. this is the dangerous part. Broken, beaten, "grown, matured" individuals, meet, have great admiration for one another, explore relationship hurdles, have similar life styles, goals and are ambitious. I would like to quote janani (http://justlovelife.blogspot.com/2008/11/finding-and-keeping-life-partner.html) here and are in love with each other...well what more could you ask for? and by the way why is it the dangerous part?
Way too many people think they know it all when they start a marriage..so that idea is more dangerous than the unknown.
So thats to the skeptical me. It is all the fault of United states of A. I used to believe in frog prince, sleeping beauty and beuty and the beast! really!
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ReplyDeleteToo complicated for a simpleton like me, i say. The best thing would be to do it the tamizh movies way. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, he gets her pregnant. She goes and falls at her dad's feet, they get her married to the hero and they live happily ever after with 24 kids.
ReplyDeleteCan you repeat the koshtin pliss? And I need whatever it is that your smoking:)
ReplyDeleteMr.Who else:
ReplyDeletegood luck with that! let me know how it goes..
arvind:
i told you i was super vetti! and then its the lab..got a mixture of things in the air ;-)
too much bourgeois this love i believe. maybe people should just be, be friends, for a long time and finally decide that they might as well get married and stay together instead of scaring the society by just being 2 unmarried man and woman who like the company of each other (pls no dropping jaw..this is still me..recent rub off from influencing people:))
ReplyDeleteDeeps:
ReplyDeleteI need more room for my brain to expand i guess
U cannot say Indian men never cook being there in the US ... come here and see how IT people cook .. (they don have job now !!! )
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