Love-ly arranged???

Marriage… that’s a word that pretty much scares the shit out of every person.. whether the person is going for a love or arranged marriage… Since my childhood, I have always been a shy guy… this was predominantly because I was studying in a guys school, and I never had the confidence to walk up to a girl and ask her out..

This status changed once I entered college. I joined the commerce stream and thankfully it was a co-ed class. I started talking to girls more often, and became more comfortable around them. But, my first relationship came, when I was studying in B’Com 1^st year. Yeah!!! That late J Well, my inexperience was very much visible, and the relationship dragged on for a couple of months before I finally called quits. Hardly did I know at that time that this was the beginning of a series of disasters to follow.

My ultimate disaster was probably when I was in my 3^rd year of graduation. I was going around with the girl for nearing about a year I guess, and when I finally moved to Bangalore for my higher studies, she conveniently dumped me and moved on with her previous boyfriend. That was a big thing in my life at that point in time.. but I moved on.. I think it was more out of anger and the want to get back at her that I started a random dating spree. Well, truly speaking I did enjoy at the beginning. But, like its said, good things last for only that long.

Like a fool, I moved on from one relationship to another. I kept getting introduced to different girls, and then I would find myself in a relationship sooner than I would expect… MAN!!! These were probably the worst days of my life… But, I would also never seem to give up. I kept going at it.

Finally, my last relationship brought a lot of stability in my life. From my first relationship which lasted just a few months, this relationship would see me go through more than 2 years before it ended. Well, at this stage, my maturity levels also rose, and I like any other person, thought it would be best for me to maintain this stability and get married. Another reason was that I was also reaching the proper age for marriage and I didn’think it was right for me to drag on.

SO, finally, I also registered myself in to the infamous matrimonial sites to search for a bride. Well, to start with, I always had the feeling that 90% of the Bengali girls are very beautiful. This coming from most of the girls I had met or seen till date. Man did this opinion change instantly. IT WAS THE BIGGEST HORROR SHOW I have ever witnessed. From girls posing in picnic hats, to aunty looking “girls” sending me interests, I kept on wondering, if I had made the right choice. Initially, me and my friend Ayan, who had also enrolled himself for this “COURSE”, started looking frantically for the best looking girls we could possibly come across. This stance, slowly changed and we started realising that “The law of demand and supply” was totally different in the case of the girl as opposed to the boys. We came back to earth very soon and started looking for prospective brides, more suitable to our tastes, looks and everything else.

This search then started turning into a fun exercise, and the both of us used to discuss some of the profiles and make fun of them as well. This was purely out of frustration as well. Today, its been more than six months, and I am still searching through the database to find someone who would be able to tolerate me. More than that, I feel that the entire feeling of getting married in an arranged fashion, is just so not me. It kinda scares the shit out of me as well at times to think that I would be married to a girl whom I would know for only some weeks to months. But, well, like its said, no-one can ever understand a girl completely, so I and still waiting to take my leap. J Are you?? J