(This post is written by my Desi friend Charlie Brown. Charlie, presently settled in Delhi, is an Technology graduate from the prestigious Brown University. I know you are hardly interested in knowing what he is all about; so let me allow the horse neigh without any further delay..)
Last Sunday, I went out to buy a set of new headphones from our nearest shopping complex. I hate going to shopping malls in the weekend since all the Chaddhas, Bedis, Sharmas, Vermas, Khuranas of Delhi throng into the malls. Some with their family, some with their lovers and some are full time stalkers (By now, all the Chaddhas to Khuranas are already ringing up their lawyers to sue me). And, then come obnoxious souls like me - who have no choice but walk alone. Not by choice but more by compulsion. I do have a girl friend but she is irritated whenever I enter one of those gizmo stores in malls. I just can't help. That's how I make my living. But, for sake of our relationship, I have to sometimes resist the temptation of exploring gizmos in front of her. This is akin to a part where I feel the same when she enters the West side trial room. The dress trials are like my own judicial trial. The trial of my inability to appreciate the beauty that lies within those dresses. I become the criminal and all the dresses just testify against my crime.
Changing the topic- something else that I have observed is how marrying in early 20s is back in fashion. All the damsels for whom most guys (me included- occasionally though) used to woo for, have got married!! They then looked barely in their late teens-may be.. But, then came a Tsunami of immature, insecure 'Lets fall in Love and get married ASAP' folks. All Thanks to the Mall Culture. Not that I'm making a political issue out of it like Samajwadi Party does; but i just want to highlight how fast things were turning out to be.
Well, its all a personal decision yet a decision like marriage is a big one even if it is a personal one. So, when I asked one of my school mates, why he chose to get married so early; a really vague answer came -
'Yaar shaadi toh karni hi thi.. Aaj nahi toh 2-3 saal baad..Love marriage ha meri toh' (Translation - One day we would have married each other so why to wait for another 4-5 years?) Tsk.Tsk. Now, let me produce an analogy -
''If a man will have to die one day, then why not die right now?'' So, go now and kill yourself ?
I'll not comment on a suitable criteria but the one suggested above was utterly silly. Some do say that a decision to get married is mental stage but it is highly subjective.
Coming to where it all started from - I finally got Phillips headsets
- Charlie Brown
Last Sunday, I went out to buy a set of new headphones from our nearest shopping complex. I hate going to shopping malls in the weekend since all the Chaddhas, Bedis, Sharmas, Vermas, Khuranas of Delhi throng into the malls. Some with their family, some with their lovers and some are full time stalkers (By now, all the Chaddhas to Khuranas are already ringing up their lawyers to sue me). And, then come obnoxious souls like me - who have no choice but walk alone. Not by choice but more by compulsion. I do have a girl friend but she is irritated whenever I enter one of those gizmo stores in malls. I just can't help. That's how I make my living. But, for sake of our relationship, I have to sometimes resist the temptation of exploring gizmos in front of her. This is akin to a part where I feel the same when she enters the West side trial room. The dress trials are like my own judicial trial. The trial of my inability to appreciate the beauty that lies within those dresses. I become the criminal and all the dresses just testify against my crime.
Changing the topic- something else that I have observed is how marrying in early 20s is back in fashion. All the damsels for whom most guys (me included- occasionally though) used to woo for, have got married!! They then looked barely in their late teens-may be.. But, then came a Tsunami of immature, insecure 'Lets fall in Love and get married ASAP' folks. All Thanks to the Mall Culture. Not that I'm making a political issue out of it like Samajwadi Party does; but i just want to highlight how fast things were turning out to be.
Well, its all a personal decision yet a decision like marriage is a big one even if it is a personal one. So, when I asked one of my school mates, why he chose to get married so early; a really vague answer came -
'Yaar shaadi toh karni hi thi.. Aaj nahi toh 2-3 saal baad..Love marriage ha meri toh' (Translation - One day we would have married each other so why to wait for another 4-5 years?) Tsk.Tsk. Now, let me produce an analogy -
''If a man will have to die one day, then why not die right now?'' So, go now and kill yourself ?
I'll not comment on a suitable criteria but the one suggested above was utterly silly. Some do say that a decision to get married is mental stage but it is highly subjective.
- Charlie Brown
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