I want to Break Free

Every person comes at this cross road once in their life. And my respect for the other “already-done” folks only increases with the amount of time I spend at this cross road before actually crossing it.

It all started once my sister got married. No wait. During her marriage only, my distant aunties will call me to meet their distant acquaintances. Initially I would think it’s just a customary introduction but their questions made me think otherwise. I mean, I’m ok if someone’s asking me about my company, my profile and even my package but then come the irritating questions like “Whats your DOB”, I will answer that as well but then aunty will say “No, no..I mean full DOB with year” and then the time of birth, the place and all. I wished I could say to aunty “Just give me a second and I’ll tell you the name of the hospital and the doctor as well”. Grrrr..

Just imagine that you are trying to make everything go as per the plan at your sister’s wedding and out of nowhere you are subjected to an impromptu interview! And every other person telling you “Ab teri line clear hai” with a wink! I’m used to this kind of winking from my friends and would love it if any girl does that to me but it’s really scary when middle-aged aunties do that. Really, really scary!

And then there are friends who are getting married. Every now and then I get one wedding invitation. That makes many of friends ask me “Sharmaji, aap kab kar rahe ho shaadi?”. “Ab umar ho gayee hai”, “Aapse kam umar ke logo ne bhi karma shuru kar diya hai”. And most of them are my close friends and they have their own reasons. Sample these: Pandeyji, Kakke and Ankit say “ Bhagwaan kare teri biwi tujhe utna hi sataaye jitna tune humein sataaya hai” or Chunnu who says that he’ll get married only after me because then I’ll attend his wedding with my wife and will sit quiet! And I know these are just the few names out of many;)

I have few answers for some of the questions I could not answer. They are:

Q: Beta, kaisi ladki chahiye tumhe?
A: I really wanted to marry Preity Zinta few years back but now I’m not sure.
Q: Education kis level ki chahiye?
A: Should have been nominated for Nobel prize twice.
Q: A Housewife or a working wife?
A: Doesn’t matter. If she’s a housewife, she should be able to cook 100+ cuisines and if she’s working then she should earn 1.5 times of my salary and then I’ll become a househusband.
Q: Ladki ka family status kaisa hona chahiye?
A: Her father should be able to take care of me if decide to retire next year.

And the list is endless. Well, jokes apart, I believe this is something which has to happen but it should happen when it should ideally happen. Who doesn’t want a companion for whole life but just wish that the process of finding her could be a little less tedious. And to be honest, even I dont know the answers for above questions. And I firmly believe that when the right time comes, everything happens in a right manner and you meet the right person. Till then, its Laddakh in August;)

And this one I read somewhere long back:

“Tum mile ho abhi-abhi par aisa lagta hai ki tum the yahi-kahi”