Every day we wake up to stare at our Smartphone which is
flooded with forwarded messages at any given point of time. Out of all the
jokes you receive in a day, the jokes regarding poor husbands, dominating wives
and about dark humor on marriage rule the roost. Most of the men at 40 go out
of the way to elaborate how their life would have been different, better and colorful
if they never got married few years ago, they still don’t shy away from having
another woman in their life to regain the normalcy of past glory. Most of the
women in their forties desire younger men, either they keep it to themselves or
just finish it off by having an extra marital affair. Most of the forty
something couples admit the sex has died from their relationships, and they are
like platonic couple living together for their child’s sake. Married men loath
the idea of marriage the most, and women express it carefully in socially
acceptable way, that’s called as gossip.
Then it makes me wonder what all we grew up seeing in mushy gooey
Bollywood flicks, the things we read in fairy tales as a kid and extended
reading it to teens in mills and boons? What was it? Why Meg Ryan waited eagerly
for Tom Hanks’ mail? Closer home, why Kajol waited till Rani Mukharji died, and
she could finally get her high school sweetheart SRK? All this brings us to
only one answer, ‘to get married’. Why
all those fairy tales and chick flicks ended with just ‘happily ever after.’ ? Why
they never told us what comes after the marriage? May be because, nobody dares
to question such an ancient institution and violate its sanctity. And after
knowing all the facts, I still see many youngsters just happily and voluntarily
jumping into a marriage, without seeing a small star on the top of the last
line of every fairy tale.
Strange strange world…..
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