I will be 25 years of age by next week this February and this makes me a bit sad and unsettled because of a couple of reasons.
First: Due to life changing interventions by Pro-metric and IIMs , I am sure I won’t be getting admitted to any IIM this year. Again, this affects me in two ways:
(i) I shall have to wait and waste another year in my current company for my desire of domain change to be fulfilled.
(ii) My freedom span of next 2 years is suddenly in jeopardy and under rigorous scrutiny by my parents.
Since I have a Sarkari Naukri and I come from a middle class family, every relative of mine wants to take the credit for initiation of my doom( no offence to anyone already married), my Marriage. Till last year many good proposals knocked on my door but my parents humbly declined them as my parents wanted me to first complete my post graduation. But since January 2014 or so to say after CAT result I am feeling a different kind of push from my family especially from my mother’s side for marriage. Phrases like ” Beta, age hoti jaa rahi hai ,future ke baare mein bhi to plan karna hai “, just don’t help either.
Second: Everyone in my friend circle is either buying a ring or getting married; as if my company’s cultural events were not enough torture for me already. It’s cool and all mushy mushy that they are getting married and they tag me in their wedding pics but then there are some who have started to tag me in their new born baby’s pics titled “Lo ab tum ban gaye Chacha “. And the kind of advice I receive from my seniors is just unbelievable from where I stand.
Yesterday, my GM asked me “Kid, How’s life” .
I replied with a smile ,”Life is good ,sir, but the workload is on an increase these days“.
He laughed and said “Kid , get married” .
Now I don’t claim to be a hardcore law abiding citizen but last time I checked child marriage was still a crime in our country.
Incidents like these force me to think on lines of getting married or as they say settling down in life. But here is the thing, I know myself and I am not ready for this kind of responsibility. I just can’t put my dreams aside and get settled for something I don’t want . It might appear childish and it probably is but I want to live a little more , travel a little more , listen to my favorite music a little more, sleep a little more ,hang out with friends a little more .I just can’t get married anytime soon as I am still a baccha ,thoda kachha…