MERGERS ON EARTH!

DEMURE

Marriages are made in heaven they say. Where is that heaven I ask?

Do these people sitting in heaven have nothing better to do than to place two happy people in the world together and watch the ensuing tamasha? They watch gleefully as these two strangers try to know each other, adjust with each other, discover that they are as different as chalk and cheese, but have been thrown in together in the ring to live the rest of their lives "happily"

Hmmm, somebody up there is really laughing his guts out, just as I was, while watching  “Chennai Express”!

The world at large, all those whom you trusted from childhood, your dear parents, siblings, friends who were dearer than your own family, all get together to have fun while you are led to the sacrificial altar. They deck you up in finery, jewellery, and the photographer makes a fast buck, the caterer makes his money. There are so many who look forward to your sacrifice of happiness. The flower decorator, the lighting-wala, the event planner, the Hotel, the ghodi or limo hire person, the band-wala, the tent-wala, crockery, cutlery, glassware-wala and what not. 

The shop which sells you your trousseau, dresses, make up, shoes,new suitcases, pots & pans, beds, linen, and again, more what not!!

Your sacrifice makes so many happy. In your innocence you too are actually ecstatic! With stars in your eyes and dreams on your mind you set out on the path which you have been told will make you "live happily ever after ! "

Was there a bigger myth? 

The people in your world wanted to curb your bindass, happy, free,beautiful life. Human beings are envious creatures and cannot continue to watch one amongst them living that life which they in their folly have foregone.

Therefore tread on this path knowing what you are in for! Don't say I didn't tell you to go prepared for a never ending war where there is no victory. Every day is the beginning of a new war, a new adjustment, a new ego clash, a few tears, a few smiles, and a lot of love also thrown in, for good measure.

Just remember, marriages are not made in heaven, they are mergers of two different entities who try to make the merger as profitable as is possible between two people on earth.

Go on, go ahead, take that plunge and come out smiling.

That my dear is what they call “heaven on earth”!

"Shadi ka ladoo jo khaye woh bhi pachchtaye, jo na khaye woh bhi pachchtaye!Toh phir kha kar hi pachchtao....." 

Translation:The one who eats the wedding ladoo repents, and the one who doesn't eat the ladoo also repents...so it is better to eat and repent! What do you say?

CAGED FOREVER!