YoungAged/Engaged!?

Now the government of India doesn’t want to give our youngsters any break. It says, ‘Wake up guys, you get married soon!’ I couldn’t stop laughing when I read the age for marriageability for the men is going to be reduced from 21 to 18. An 18 year old man!? LOL

Then we can more often see boys (oh sorry, men) fighting it out with parents in the 1st year of college not for a bike or movie tickets, but for wedding costumes! More boys (oh sorry again, men) would be college dropouts mostly due to paternity leave (or may be there will be a clause in our secondary education system for such a provision)!

Statistics say that in the big cities in India, today there are 40% marriages breaking down! And they break up while in their 1st 2 years predominantly! That also implies young couples are not able to carry it off well. It would make sense if the eligibility had gone up from 18 and 21 to 21 and 24 (for girls and boys respectively) 18 is just not the age… definitely not! At 21, one is both out of college and employed or pursuing higher studies and secured his future. At 18, we are crazy. I can’t decide which Walkman I want to buy, which bike I want to ride and which subject I should opt for! But here’s an offer for deciding on my life-partner!

But wait for a second… see the positive side of it! If I marry at 18, I wouldn’t wait to become a father beyond 19 and 19 years later I might have a grandchild… that’s precisely when I’m 38! Superb… I’m more greedy, I might well be a great grandfather at just 38+19->57 (when our fathers turned just grandfathers)! And if I lived any extra longer, I had my 4th generation before closing my eyes! (Poor granny of mine is still waiting for her 3rd generation and pestering me to do something ;)

So go India go! Get all the boys and girls married in their teen-ages so that our own very old saying ‘S.S.L.C. (class X) – Stop Studying Learn Cooking’ lives on!

Oops I’m growing old now… I should find a match before my last cousin who is 8 years younger elopes (lawfully)! :-)