Tagged : Personal( actually is this personal???!! well i'm kinda ambivalent about this so dont mind spilling the beans.... hopefully this will be read by people who "i hope" dont beleive marriage is the be all end all of everything...)
For all the Yohanna’s out there ………………………………
OK… this is verrry verrry fast starting to look like shaadi.blog………….but absolute last one I promise…..
Yohanna is a girl, 25 years of age , most of her peers and those younger are married or committed ( she is verrry happy for all of them btw!!!) , Yohanna has no significant relationship to tell her parents and play the love marriage angle ……………. Yohanna has a younger sister who is not much younger to her, and her sister’s friends have also started getting married …. Yohanna’s parents are worried her sell by date is fast approaching, that compounded by the fact that she’s too tall and doesn’t look like Aishwarya Rai ….. Yohanna going by past experience knows that she isn’t the most intelligent person when it comes to the love scene ,and having graduated from undergrad and school “singly” ( the places where you typically get love marriaged ) , she doesn’t at all believe things are going to be any different later.
Before Yohanna used to think 24 was a good time to get married ..now she thinks more like 35 or never……….. she loves her parents and they love her , but she risks being called selfish by everyone else, she doesn’t have too many hopes from arranged marriages and doesn’t get the point where she has to interact with the guy previously “flirt??”” ,she wasn’t allowed to do that before!!!! Now her whole family is telling her to!!
She wouldn’t mind if it meant the guy would commit or something , but the guy is in fact scoping …. So its more like the guy gets to flirt a lot before committing , is she wrong to think this is a bit unfair … anyway whatever…Yohanna has a massive headache.
Does she tell her parents to leave her be and not think about her marriage, she’s busy getting to know herself and living the single life , she is also wondering about her “soulmate” (well not really ), going by her luck she never will find him, but the thought of giving up on Mr S , just so that the first person , whose background seems good ( because lots of other aunties were trying for their daughters ( so what makes you think Yohanna’s going to get lucky”?) and isn’t taking dowry ( what a catch!!!) I really admire the guys civic sense but you know , Yohanna cant get married just because of that!!!!!
So should Yohanna tell her mom “Mummy , you know why don’t you just stop looking ; I don’t believe in arranged marriage, I’m debating marriage even!!! right now..i think I’m kinda happy the way I am … I think I need to see if my soulmate is out there…no I haven’t found him , he probably doesn’t exist …”
And because we’re in America…… Yohanna is STRAIGHT !!!!
What should Yohanna do????? Anonymous comments welcome!!! It’s ok Yohanna won’t curse you if you tell her to go in for the arranged marriage, she’ll probably have to go in for it anyway!!!
4 comments:
Most interesting Posts! I have enjoyed your writings (those that I have read). This woman should simply tell "Momma" that she has adopted the "American Way"; that she does not want an arranged marriage; that presently she is satisfied with her "single-hood". As for finding a "soul-mate", we only find one if we are out there seeking one and putting time and effort into meeting a potential life-time partner. They do not come knocking at our door. Connections occur when two people are "seeking" and when both sense that the other is a "seeker". We cannot hide inside. We must interact socially in a variety of settings. One has to have a very purposeful goal of finding a "mate". Marriage or a very long-term relationship NEVER occurs unless an individual truly wants it and is actively involved with finding ways to meet others. My opinion, of course! Thank you for your delightful posts! - aj -
thnks for the comment..but the fact is mum,dad, yohanna they are all players ..society is the culprit... but yes i really liked the last lines abt marriage happening only when one wants it !! thanks again!!!
Follow your heart gurl...Marriage is after all not the be-all and end-all of life....Highly overrated according to me....unless its S we are talking about ;) ....Sigh....Its better to be single and happy than get married just because everyone else thinks its a good idea. Well thats my two cents for you....
I can fully empathize with Youhana. U know why, coz, it seems like my own story.
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