Marriage? Really?! Now?!!

Being in a small family of just 3 I have always enjoyed guests visiting our house. The added members and their chit-chat is good, it gives you time to bond with your family on a larger scale. Off late the guest visits have risen and so has the bonding. But my happiness is not exactly proportional to the frequency of their arrival. Only one reason- Prospect of Marriage.

Yes. After the welcome and food follows the discussion of marriages and that too on a ridiculously serious level. With my cousin ready to be hitched later this year, I found myself dragged in the queue for Next Up?

On one hand as I am enjoying my life as a kid with my younger sister; on other I found myself the center of attention of to-be-married-soon. I am just 20 years for the Love of God! And plans are made and devised about my wedding ceremony. How can you frikkin talk about it when I am just growing out from my stage of teens?!!

Many say a girl always dreams and anticipates about the way she wants her marriage to be with the much-hyped Prince Charming.  (Who by the way is again supposed to be arriving on a horse.. Dude it’s the time of Ferraris, Audi, BMW’s and girls still want a horse? I would want to re-align their thoughts) Well with the Hollywood flicks showing the elegance of getting married in a personalized White gown and Bollywood adding the glitz and music who would not dream of having a lavish marriage? I do not blame them.

Today, arranged marriages do seem passé thanks to the faith in love. So rather than daunting with the prospect of someone of my age and doing good; give us time to fall in love and fall out of it as well. I am not against arranged marriages but I am not even ready for one. It is highly annoying after a point to be talked on my marriage. I not even sure if I’ll graduate with the percentage that I wish to certainly do not hope to talk on marriage. I would any day prefer to talk about the new fashion trends, movies and tech rather than “Kya hoga iska? Koi milega kya isse?”

But, but my point remains decide at the right time at least. One thing that makes me feel better is that I am not the only one to go through this. I have a few of my friends whose parents discuss marriages at our tender age. How can you possibly suggest some prospects for your child when he/she isn’t even sure what they want to achieve. Time has definitely changed, with more and more people getting into live-ins, equal is the number of those wanting to settle first and then think about having sex, let alone have a family!

It is good to know that parents care and are concerned. To know the anxiety your dad is going through at the thought of you leaving the home and going to someone else’s. But I may go out tomorrow for my education as well and not just by changing my surname.

Lastly being a kid of the impulsive generation I am planning to run away. Yes. And my parents are more confident than me that I will, what better? So I don’t get what is the point of discussing my marriage ceremony when you’ve got a faith in my ‘running-away-take-a-risk’ plan. I do not mind admitting it here too. Who knows what’s in store for me?

Till then I wish all of them stop embarrassing us front of our not so immediate families.