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?
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Firstly... it's an honour to me to have rekindled the flame of this blog... =D
Secondly... life makes a cynic out of all of us. The best you can do is sip on a "Red Label" except, its not the tea i'm talking about... if you know what i mean. =P
who would have known our dear binky was such a cynic....anyway i wanted to add some more ticks after get married
5 have kids (hopefully none of us has ticked it not knowing)
6 raise the damn things
7 give them your checklist and screw their happiness
now that its time for another party in Lyon, i leave you to your cynical musings
~au revoir from Sir Drinks-a-lot
Marry me.
ah yes. thats what i told someone here on the topic. You don't want want to get married? Well its not like you wanted to go to school either.
On a brighter checklistchangingnote, recent studies have shown couples without kids live happier. All you have to do is not get bored, it seems...
Blabberwocky : you're welcome!! :)
Sid : I had to do the 1, 2, and 3.I wont do the 4th wither if i can help it. 5, 6 and 7 are way out of question baby!!! :D
sanjay : You want to risk it? ;)
Arpit : Couples without kids are happier, because they probably arent a couple anymore! As they say, a happy marriage is when your spouse id either divorced or dead! :D
Whats more pathetic that you continue doing the same (even planning to passon the checklist to your kids), try be different than ticking all the options in your checklist. lol.
Anyways i dont suggest u dont marry but try something like inserting a boyfriend in btw. :P
Or what say have multiple options life
<> Marriage
<> Divorce
<> Marriage
<> Divorce
<> Old enough not to be accepted by anybody
<> Dying sadly with no kids around or any damn caring person.
Hello mam all points in that checklist are important. Society laid it out to make your life happy (after trail-err on may others) so better stick to it. and not have "the checklist" snorting inside your head.
Blah blah on "The checklist" and will fire on you. Skip it and your life will be convoluted like a snail shell. lol
Oh...You know, I was getting all excited about a nice detailed post after the wonderful start. Alas, It ended abruptly.
Anyway, liked however much I read.
Welcome to Blogger. :)
Since when did u start blogging bhai
Sam - You're welcome to your opinions, just as i am to mine!
How about this?
You marry at 24, find out at 28 that you dont really get along with your husband. have a kid at 29, and make great sacrifices to bring up the kid straight and honest. turns out the kid didnt really apreciate all that effort, and preferred to snort and puff away his life!
this takes a toll on your already failing marriage, and it topples over to the dark side.
You did follow the checklist here with all the good intentions in the world, but you are still left in this world unloved and unsung and uncared for.
You could post a dhamakedaar retort to this argument of mine, and i could do the same and we could both argue endlessly. And in the tryst to prove ourselves right(or just to appear clever) we could both miss out on the vital point : each to his own.
pupu : not a regular blogger bro! only two till now, and they were a result of extreme boredom and joblessness!
When do I get to see some more of that most refreshing cynicism???
hey... very well written...
I totally agree with the whole marriage thing.... my parents have started with the same crap too.. and i can relate to it...
Welcome to Blogger..
I also abhor the stupid list.
"Life is ticking away", they warn us, when actually, we are ticking out Life
And when we reach reach 30's we have an appended list,
5. Marriage(ticked, divorce, ticked)
6. produce children
7. quit job
8. household
list when you reach 50 9. make sure ur children are ticking the list
I comply a 100% to everything you wrote down above. Good to see people thinking the same way. I thought I am the only cynic in town. Though had it in mind that there ought to be someone else as well.
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