Marriage: Mockery! Aur kya chahiye boss?

Having loads of time isn't necessarily a good thing. Like less facebooking should be top on the list of New Year Resolutions, may be reading up on gossip should be second. Pinne enna! All I read about the last quarter of 2010 was second marriages and people getting divorced. OK, since I should stop talking about it, I thought I'd have a last shot at it before signing off the topic.

What got the ball rolling was what's-his-face-Bhupathi divorcing Shwetha Jaishankar and settling for Lara Dutta. And don't even get me started on PrabhuDeva and Nayans(Nines, as she's affectionately referred in the press). This post is to reinforce : Marriage: Man || Bicycle: Fish. God, they were all so right!

I often wondered why people in Indian families wanted to get their daughters married off so they could be free of responsibility. Well, they now are entering an era of insecurity.. second marriages! And chances are, parents won't even be called for consideration.

Prabhu Deva got his lottery ticket in marriage.. he told himself he lost and tore it up. And no prizes for guessing what next: Adutha lottery ticket!

If a marriage is accepted as a "mistake" one wants to scratch and move on, then there is no meaning in companionship. We are perhaps approaching a similar time as the rajahs of old who married many times and gave new meaning to polygamy.. and how love existed there, too. Hell, he didn't have to say he was two/three-timing or cheating on someone.. he got away.. sure had a ball of a time allright!

Just thought to ask a few friends for their input(If you want me to trash them, send me an email and I'll have the kai-aals at their doorstep)

(*Names have been changed to protect privacy)

Vaidyanathan*: Marriage is not about dealing with compatibility, but learning to deal with incompatibility.

Rama*: Battlefield, no bed of roses. You know what, eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards is all I would tell a dude before he takes the plunge.

Arvind*: I'm singing I'm a slave 4 u and slogging it out in the kitchen

Sorkant*: Two-timing is the best option. Infidelity is the best solution.. and keep them blissfully ignorant at home! And keep it spicy.

Makrit*: Kadhalichutten. Kalyanam than next step-nu.. OK, it's going to be fun with a lot of privacy nu ninaichen.. OMG, its a lot of torture.. and the worst thing is.. I brought this upon myself..

Manivannan*: For a girl, a guy who rates a 5 at 7 pm still rates the same score at midnight, regardless of how much she's had to drink. Shit! And after marriage it gets worse.

Jyothsna*: I recommend marriage to everybody.

Deendayali*: I think I have a good time. I dont care about the husband. But yes, I love it. People, get married! And milk every chance!

I didnt have the heart to publish other opinions. They're all negative.

May be the generation after us will stick to live-in. Then, our country will begin to comprehend how it works for our society too. The grandpas and grandmas won't be around to tell us unconvincingly that "they're fine" when in reality, they're not. We won't feel pangs inside that tell us we need to make our parents happy, it is just a state of mind that would need some recalibration.

Jeez. This sucks!

Buddha.. I thought I'd grow older to have to understand "Nothing is permanent- nothing" -- I got it. And.. hey is this all evolution playing a dirty well disguised trick to make us stronger?