You know you have arrived in India, when people around you, and I mean random people who are your so called nosey neighbors, keep on pestering your mother to get you married, because well.. you are getting OLD.
OLD is anything over 24.
Seriously?
I cannot begin to tell how I pissed and annoyed I am by this. Mostly because that is not something you tell someone's mother, who is still grieving the loss of her husband, and doesn't want to force her daughter to make any life altering decisions such as "Getting Married."
I know this is normal here. I know when a girl is single after a certain age here, people become overly curious and overly chatty. But I refuse to deal with it. This whole thing, where all conversations begin with finding a groom, and end up having babies is seriously a reminder of how ignorant people are and on top of that, they don't even realize it.
Sigh!
Yeah, I am having issues with this whole part of the society. It's not that it affects me or makes me think "shit I am getting old," but it makes me disappointed more than anything else on how long a way so many parts of the society have to go.
All in all. I wish people got it. I do believe at the end of the day, it is a personal choice on how you chose to present your opinions in front of the others no matter what you believe in. You can be closed minded or super progressive, but how you interact with people and move socially is a personal choice. It saddens me even more than people still take so much interest in other people's business and do not know when to step back. That is their personal choice. And it is WRONG!
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