Sam: When are you getting married?

Me: I am only 24

Sam: Yeh but half of your friends are either married, engaged or have a healthy relationship.

Me: If by a healthy relationship you mean talking late hours on the phone. I am better off it. The telecom service providers now shamelessly target young couples. The other day I saw this advert where a teenage girl was so proudly exclaiming:

Woh call nahe keta tau kia hua.. mai kerloongi (what if he duznt call…I’ll call him myslef)

Now wait a effing minute here. What are  we teaching these kids?

Sam: Okay, okay I got your point. But this doesn’t answer my first question.

Me: Yes it does, its not a competition. That if everyone is competing I should also enroll myself or if everyone is taking admission in the college so I have to do it as well.

Its not Sam’s fault. Walking down the aisle is the new trend in town for some odd reason. A close friend mine moved to USA for higher studies. So when ever I get to talk to him and he ask whats new in Karachi. I break the following news to him:

1. Shahzeb the nerd got married
2. CJ got restored
3. Umar Bengali got lucky and is engaged to some gurl in his family
   

NOW when he comes online the first question he asks;

” Who got married, engaged or divorced this time?”

Maybe it has to do with age and the fact that we all are grown ups now. And its normal to see people we grew up with are getting laid settling down. It all has to do with preferences, opportunities and the fact that whose paying the caterers; you or your old man Love got nothing to do with. Its just USP (Unique Selling Point) which is repeatedly used in SRK films. The same way Jamat e Islami uses Islam in their manifesto and Imran Khan uses justice while picking on young/old women.

Even now if you feel like missing out at something, ask your uncles, cousins and married friends what they are missing out. And trust me you will feel much better with your present freedom.

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