About Marriage and the Cynic in me

Nice sunday morning, and I am sitting in my nice pink Bangalore apartment, and I suddenly decide i want to write! Blabberwocky wrote in my comments that she wants to see me writing some more, and i kinda enjoy not disappointing people ( A very common human syndrome, i should say. We all try to please everyone as much as we can. Period.) But i am not a morning person, and thoughts dont come easily to me at nine on a lazy sunday winter morning. At least comprehensive thoughts dont.



Ok, my roomie, a certain bespectacled Miss Rao, with a jiggly belly (as jiggly as my bum) made a random comment that i am a cynic. And that it shows in my writing! 'Now does it?' says me.
'Oh yes, ma'am! try writing about marriage and all your cynicism will come right out!'.
Maybe she is right. You tell. Or dont tell.



See, there's a checklist for all of us, the moment we are born. Its on EVERYONE'S mind, but mind you! NOBODY talks about it, and they'll be most displeased that i called this sacred concept 'The Checklist'. The first in 'The Checklist' is 'THE SCHOOL'. Something that could have been lots of fun, had parents not been so nosey about what homework the teacher gave, how much marks did the first boy in class get, and why didnt we get that much. Talk about slaughtering the confidence in a kid!



Then comes 'COLLEGE'. But we are not going to dwell on this, because i am here to discuss the next thing on 'The Checklist', and i dont want to ramble. So we skip three or four (or HowManyEver years it take you to finish your damn education). And come to the point where we assume you have finished college.



Once you finish college, and get a job, the MOST unfortunate thing happens to you. Parents get fidgety, and relatives get impatient and neighbours rub hands impatiently. Why? because
'The Checklist' goes like this:



1. Shcool (ticked)

2. College(ticked)

3. Job(ticked)

4. MARRIAGE (not ticked yet!!!)



and its a function of most human beings to keep ticking the 'to do's in 'The Checklist', so that they can die in peace and go to heaven. There is 'NO PEACE' until your and all your offsprings' checklist is complete. And people hate 'NO PEACE'.



So my dear, marriage isnt something that is made in heaven. Its more like a 'To Do' in your parents' 'Checklist'. And its a little like horse breeding, seeing as how they look for a healthy, young mate of the same breed(read caste), so that the children are all born pure bred, and strong and healthy like mommy and daddy. Interbreeding isnt really the most encouraged form of breeding, though sometimes parents to give in to it, if they are not so blinded by the rules of 'The Checklist'.



Yes i am a cynic. I might have a pink house with a plant with pink leaves, and pink curtains to match with the pink apartment and the pink plant, but I am a cynic alright. Girl, were you right about this!



My Tea has come, and so I am going to nurse my thoughts, and sip on 'Red Label'. Ritu, is the soup ready for breakfast?