It's difficult being single at the age of 31. Most of the friends are married and they want you to be married as well. I wonder if there's a tinge of guilt that they feel for not being around. Not entirely sure.
But people are caught up in family lives. They have to spend time with their in-laws which they don't like. But they accept it because of their spouse (who, not surprisingly, doesn't enjoy spending time with the in-laws either).
Am I being selfish here? Maybe.
I was going through old mails when a seven year old mail caught my eye. It was the pdf copy of a friend's blog which had ceased to exist. Reading through the posts, I could see the transformation, and the evolution in terms of thought.
I see that change in myself when I go through the earlier blog posts.
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It's Sachin Tendulkar's birthday. How much love has this man received!!! Some people call him selfish. They don't understand. He has given too much, way too much to Indians. Even if he was playing just to score runs for himself.
It's also the birthday of a friend.. She was one of the early readers of this blog but has drifted apart after her marriage. I once started a blog with her. Now, I guess, she's much too busy in her married life to care.
I feel angry when people move on. Maybe because I take too much time to do so. It's even more irritating when some of them claim that they still care. They don't. Marriage does that to you.
Spoke to 5 good old friends today(Bansi, Sai, Ritu, Mradul, Gaurav Bhaiya) . I realized this only as I'm writing this.
Some people stay.
I feel grateful.
But people are caught up in family lives. They have to spend time with their in-laws which they don't like. But they accept it because of their spouse (who, not surprisingly, doesn't enjoy spending time with the in-laws either).
Am I being selfish here? Maybe.
I was going through old mails when a seven year old mail caught my eye. It was the pdf copy of a friend's blog which had ceased to exist. Reading through the posts, I could see the transformation, and the evolution in terms of thought.
I see that change in myself when I go through the earlier blog posts.
*****
It's Sachin Tendulkar's birthday. How much love has this man received!!! Some people call him selfish. They don't understand. He has given too much, way too much to Indians. Even if he was playing just to score runs for himself.
It's also the birthday of a friend.. She was one of the early readers of this blog but has drifted apart after her marriage. I once started a blog with her. Now, I guess, she's much too busy in her married life to care.
I feel angry when people move on. Maybe because I take too much time to do so. It's even more irritating when some of them claim that they still care. They don't. Marriage does that to you.
Spoke to 5 good old friends today(Bansi, Sai, Ritu, Mradul, Gaurav Bhaiya) . I realized this only as I'm writing this.
Some people stay.
I feel grateful.
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