I have given up my good friend. I have been beaten unfair and square by the many learned men of the past. Men who have spent their entire lives coming up with different ways to screw up a young man's life. Such as religion for one. As a Hindu, look at all those gorgeous Muslim, Parsi and Christian women that I can only see, but never lay a finger on. Language for another. What chance does a 'madrasi' with his classical music and 'poda vada' language have with a kudi who sways to Daler Mehendi and sweet Punjabi gaali? What screwed my life, or is in the process of screwing (and quite successfully at that too) my life is these learned men's invention called the horoscope.
After several attempts at love, interspersed with hairline fractures, misaligned jaws and claw scars in embarrassing places, I resigned to the process of an arranged marriage - the secret weapon that every boy's family uses to get him together with a girl he wouldn't otherwise have had a rat's ass chance to be in the vicinity of, let alone date. And since no human being in his or her sane senses would conduct an arranged marriage without a horoscope, the well-wishers promptly went ahead and made one for me. After all, these astrologists too have wives and kids to feed, parrots to groom, and betel leaves and black ink to buy. Aah, but thats a different tale. So the horoscope was made, and what do we see... it has some complicated parameter misalignment which mandates a similar crap in the girl's one as well. In other words, it reduces by more than half whatever little chance the guy has at procreation.
Apparently there is some scientific reasoning behind these things like astrology, horoscope, crystal ball gazing, shit, etc. they say. The only reasoning I see is population control. Take away my chances of getting married, and how will I have kids, right? Yes, those wily learned men from long long ago were probably very thoughtful indeed. Who knows?
Well, what I do know is that this lovely lady I really liked refuses to have anything more to do with me, because some star or planet many millions of kilometers away happened to remain where it remained some thirty one years ago.
3 comments:
Saram illedaa .. oru anju veetilum koode chaya adichittu pennu kettiyal mathi. what say?
If we wish to see a change we need to make things change..
Unfortunately our senior generation are proving themselves the biggest asses with no sense at all even after all the education they got when it comes to the marriage of their children.
And it s funny that parents loose their rational thinking power when a this astrologer with little or no education tells about the planets which we have no control of and has all the say in a proposal..
Ini nee engaanum engane engilum oru pennine kettiyal ninte pillere kettikkan vendi eee maathiri jaathakam koppu ennokke paranju varunnavane appo thanne vetti kollu..
ANyway, I have decided not to have anything called horoscope for my kids and teach them that these are all nonsense.
Anyway, cheer up..
There s a better one somewhere just for you..
^^^^^ No there is not..!!
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