Marriage Memoirs

And so, I am back. I am married. I came across so many people who asked, "So, how's married life?" and I said to them, " Good fun!!", while I thought to myself - "Man, these guys really mean to ask this question with the full faith that the answer will always be stereotypical" and guess what... the answer is always the same. I am sure that if I met a newly married, I would ask the same question.

Does marriage change our life? Does it make us different people? Or do we ask this question to know if each person has a unique experience? I am sure in 'Olden Days', this question was asked as it brought people together in a legally and socially correct ceremony where-after they could have personal access to another human being (yes, I am trying to put it politely) :)

But what relevance does this question have in today's world of live-in relationships, boy/girl-friends, dating, Facebook and Twitter where not only do your near and dear know you better than you know yourself, but the whole world knows you too? As a matter of fact, in this situation, the question is redundant.

Marriage is good fun. Yes sire, it is. But only cos it was good fun before getting married too :) It is a bang-up thing to wipe your savings clean, probably drive your family to debt and then end up in a 'relationship for life' with a Marriage when you could have had the same (sans the debt and) without the smoke from the havan :).

Not that I didn't enjoy it. I did. The whole nine yards. But I believe that there should be a choice. Maybe there will come a day when one can hope that the wise will have a civil union and whatever personal festivities thereafter that they wished to indulge in.

But that day is not today and nor was it the day I got married.