**tring tring! .....
Me: Satsriakal mumma!
Mum: Hello Raja! ...
**Couple of minutes later...
Mum: Ahh beta! Just three more months left now for your graduation. You must be feeling good about it.
Me: Ya sort of, but not really.
Mum: Why? Don't you want to graduate?
Me: Oh yes I do, but I'm sad that I will have to leave my friends.
Mum: Oh beta, It is all a part of life. Developing new relationships where ever you go and then letting go of it.
Me: Ya, but still.
Mum: Don't worry you will get over it once you get married.
Me: Married"!?"
Mum: Yes ofcos, you come home, we have already started looking for a girl.
Me: Cmon mum, you cant be serious. I'm just 22, how the hell can you possibly be thinking of marrying me off?
Mum: The boy is not married off, it is the girl that is married off as she is the one who has to move into a new place.
Me: You know what i meant. Cmon, I'm not going to have this discussion with you. God, how can you possibly think of my marriage.
Mum: What cmon? You have to get married one day, you know that! Wont you get married?
Me: No no no! I aint gettin married, that is just not happening.
Mum: Ohh I see, so you already have a girl in mind then?
Me: Mummy, stop it please!
Mum: Oh you can tell me you know.
Me: No, I don't have a girl, and I'm not getting married, not now, not ever!
Mum: Raja, you have to get married. Now is the right age.
Me: Oh god, I'm not having this conversation with you, I'm keeping the phone. Bye bye, ask dad to call me when he is free.
**cut!
**tring! tring!.....
Me: Yes mom, what is it now.
Mum: How can you say that you wont get married. It has to happen...... eventually.
Me: Nooooo! Stop buggin me ma.
Mum: You see, now you are 22, so by 23 you should get married, because young couples look really beautiful, as they get to enjoy life. Get married now, enjoy life with your wife for 4-5 years. Go to places, see the world before you have to start thinking of having kids.
Me: Have kidssss"!?" Mom what the hell is wrong with you?
Mum: What? You wont have kids now?
Me: Oh god, this must be a bad day.
Mum: Rajaaa! These are facts of life, you have to have kids some day and ...
Me: Stop it maa....
Mum: You know Shilpa, your sister's friend?
Me: Ya I do! So?
Mum: Oh I just met her a few days back and I think she would make a lovely wife for you...
Me: Stop it ma, I'm so not having this conversation, this is over, bye bye, and don't call me again!
**cut!
**tring tring! (calling my friend up)
Friend: Hello!
Me: Hey guess what?
Friend: What?
Me: My mum is gettin me married soon after my graduation, how cool is that. Great!!
Friend: !@#$%^&* Grrrr!
**This post is a tribute to all those brave souls out there that pretend that they don't want to get married! :)
**Saat phere = Something we do in Indian marriages
**Beta = Son
**Satsriakal = Hello
**Raja = My pet name
**Shilpa = Fictional name, couldn't use the real name now could I!
Me: Satsriakal mumma!
Mum: Hello Raja! ...
**Couple of minutes later...
Mum: Ahh beta! Just three more months left now for your graduation. You must be feeling good about it.
Me: Ya sort of, but not really.
Mum: Why? Don't you want to graduate?
Me: Oh yes I do, but I'm sad that I will have to leave my friends.
Mum: Oh beta, It is all a part of life. Developing new relationships where ever you go and then letting go of it.
Me: Ya, but still.
Mum: Don't worry you will get over it once you get married.
Me: Married"!?"
Mum: Yes ofcos, you come home, we have already started looking for a girl.
Me: Cmon mum, you cant be serious. I'm just 22, how the hell can you possibly be thinking of marrying me off?
Mum: The boy is not married off, it is the girl that is married off as she is the one who has to move into a new place.
Me: You know what i meant. Cmon, I'm not going to have this discussion with you. God, how can you possibly think of my marriage.
Mum: What cmon? You have to get married one day, you know that! Wont you get married?
Me: No no no! I aint gettin married, that is just not happening.
Mum: Ohh I see, so you already have a girl in mind then?
Me: Mummy, stop it please!
Mum: Oh you can tell me you know.
Me: No, I don't have a girl, and I'm not getting married, not now, not ever!
Mum: Raja, you have to get married. Now is the right age.
Me: Oh god, I'm not having this conversation with you, I'm keeping the phone. Bye bye, ask dad to call me when he is free.
**cut!
**tring! tring!.....
Me: Yes mom, what is it now.
Mum: How can you say that you wont get married. It has to happen...... eventually.
Me: Nooooo! Stop buggin me ma.
Mum: You see, now you are 22, so by 23 you should get married, because young couples look really beautiful, as they get to enjoy life. Get married now, enjoy life with your wife for 4-5 years. Go to places, see the world before you have to start thinking of having kids.
Me: Have kidssss"!?" Mom what the hell is wrong with you?
Mum: What? You wont have kids now?
Me: Oh god, this must be a bad day.
Mum: Rajaaa! These are facts of life, you have to have kids some day and ...
Me: Stop it maa....
Mum: You know Shilpa, your sister's friend?
Me: Ya I do! So?
Mum: Oh I just met her a few days back and I think she would make a lovely wife for you...
Me: Stop it ma, I'm so not having this conversation, this is over, bye bye, and don't call me again!
**cut!
**tring tring! (calling my friend up)
Friend: Hello!
Me: Hey guess what?
Friend: What?
Me: My mum is gettin me married soon after my graduation, how cool is that. Great!!
Friend: !@#$%^&* Grrrr!
**This post is a tribute to all those brave souls out there that pretend that they don't want to get married! :)
**Saat phere = Something we do in Indian marriages
**Beta = Son
**Satsriakal = Hello
**Raja = My pet name
**Shilpa = Fictional name, couldn't use the real name now could I!
Lol.. Bless ya.. Im getting the same! I graduated last yr.. so can you imagine how bad it is for me!
ReplyDelete:) ha ha ha ..this thing actually made me laugh !!
ReplyDeletetake care.
@Rozie,
ReplyDeleteLolz, It was hard enough for me, I guess I can imagine how hard it must be for a girl to fight it off with there parents :)
But I have managed to stay away from it for an year now, as I got into my postgrad, dont know what will happen when I go home finally :)
@Alok,
ReplyDelete:) glad to know that sum ppl still have there funny bone intact!
Lolzz...but srsly, 22 is too young an age to think abt marriage.I mean even girls dont marry that early!
ReplyDeleteim with u dude..dont give up!
@Neeraja,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the support, I guess I will need it :)
Ya 22 is early indeed :)
Its not young to get married. Just society making it harder for us guys to marry at this age because we're so career minded.
ReplyDelete@Rozie,
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! You couldn't be more right about it.
But the thing is, that I'l be 24 this month, and i still think I aint mature enough, there are so many things in life that I still dont have an answer to. There is still so much more I got to discover and understand. So could I be a successful husband rite now? for I dont yet know what it takes to be one!
Age doesn't necessarily bring wisdom. Its experience that makes you wiser.
ReplyDeleteYou will never truly be ready for marriage. But if you find someone you're willing to spend the rest of your life with.. Your journey together will make things easier. You will be burdened less with what was first deemed such a highly charged journey.. and InshaAllah.. You'll achieve happiness on a level never experienced before.
@Rozie,
ReplyDeleteBut you need time to experience things. rite? so that means you will age as you experience. :)
Aarghh... yeah I too had a similar conversation sometime ago: but for now I have made up a fictional girlfriend and that is keeping everything down! :D
ReplyDeleteoops! can i dare to say that am ONE-OF-THOSE brave souls!!
ReplyDeletelolzzz
Love ur conversation with ur frnd ;-))
...but,how cud u act so innocent with ur mom ,haan??
again lolzzz
Bye,SG
@Black King,
ReplyDeleteLolz, we all do somehow find ways of escaping the the inevitable ;)
Do convey my regards to your fictional girlfriend :)
happy friendship day to you sir!
@sag_nik,
ReplyDeleteHey, for our parents we shall always be innocent little brats. rite? :)
by the way, there is sumthin wrong with ur profile, i cant view it and thus unable to access your blog. kindly provide me with a direct link to your blog. thanks n cheers :)
You dont need time to experience everything there is to life. Yes, time does bring experience. But experience doesn't necessarily need time.
ReplyDelete@Rozie,
ReplyDeleteYa, you are right on that one :)
But one has to feel like it, i mean, when they say that they are going to get you married, then you should feel that you are mature enuf to get married, rite? else one shudnt get married i suppose. however this would be diffrnt for men and women, but then they say that women mature faster than most men!
cheers :)