Something called marriage...!

Happiness is contagious. Just spoke to one of my friends, my steadfast competitor, who gave a good fight be it semester exams or job searches or just about anything under the sun. We had four years of college together. Now , she is moving to chicago, in about a week to join her hubby in New Jersey. Our conversation was filled with her excitement that's so typical of a newly wed. I couldnt help smiling at the thought of this lady blushing at the other end of the phone. They are planning to spend the first six months apart due to demanding work pressure from both their jobs. She is happiness bubbling with every word uttered.

Yesterday, I met an ex-roomie of mine who's happily married for about 6 months now in b'lore. She was all plump and flushed with the holy sweetness that only a happy companionship could bring about. We spent the first month in calcutta together. We went gallivanting through the gulleys of calcutta in the House Hunt part I and she was one helluva responsible person who had her head on her shoulders quite unlike me. And now she is talking about matching curtains and a double door refrigerator that she had a tiff over.

My friend of schooldays, the victim of all my pranks, my faithful accomplice in all my endeavours, is a proud mother of the most sweetest bundle of joy called JOEL. He is all smiles and he is got the most enticing of looks. He is gonna break many a heart trust me. And he keeps her on her toes. The lady who had broken many a hearts right from school till college is now surrounded with books, videos, movies on parenting , diapers n wat not.

Bottom line : Marriage causes strange things to happen to otherwise normal people.

Well, yea, this has been my observation in all of the above three cases.But the talks of marriage leaves me in the middle of nowhere. When I feel I am totally independent and completely competent to take the best care of myself, a friend or a colleague gets married and goes how sweet it is to be fussed over, making me feel like a total moron whose losing out on so much . Thou shall ask not if it shall last forever. But tis amazing to look at the kind of transformation a marriage can bring about. God , it makes people look Beautiful , I mean really beautiful. I am strictly against people who go goo-goo-gah-gah over their spouses in public . But then I realise its not their fault. I apologise to all those toms , dicks and harrys whom I have shot my disapproving looks across to reduce them to ashes, whenever the Mrs.Toms, Mrs.Dicks and Mrs. Harrys snuggled upto them on their bikes leaving just about enough space for aleast two more people to sit behind, or whenever they somehow do not understand that a couple's seat actually seats two and they do not necessarily hafta squeeze into just one half of that seat though.

I now understand that Marriage is the culprit.

I definitey wanna meet all 'em people after a few years and see how the magic works as the tricks get older. I know they all will live happily ever after but curiosity gets the better of me...