What’s Trending? Ahh Weddings….

Ok, enough of it! It’s all over the place…..facebook posts, whatsapp statuses, tweets, feeds….wedding of friends, cousins, people I know and people I don’t know! I find myself in a numbing yet slightly nauseated state, the one that is felt when a diwali atom bomb explodes very near to the ears, seeing people closer to me getting married, or in the process of doing so. Com'on, it’s not an exaggeration! It’s like a wildfire approaching fast!

Fine, it might be because we are now in an era of intense social networking, and we are connected with a lot more people than we would actually want to, these updates are quite conspicuous….but it’s still not convincing! I mean, we have been in this for almost half a decade now, and for people our age (or my age to be precise!) social networking is now a receding tide. We have grown up (atleast most of us have!) and don’t post everything we do, online, except for our recent travel pics, may be few location tags, actual social gatherings and of course the important events in our lives (that doesn’t count much, does it! :-P :-P). Still, there is a high influx of updates related to ‘this’ particular life event.

It’s a real accomplishment to have found out someone you can share your life with. Even luckier are the ones who find that right person AND share their lives with them too! And so, I feel really happy for all my dear ones who have recently taken this leap! Guys, do not misunderstand, it’s not your marriage that bothers me, it’s your company that I’d miss and you being on the other side of the fence, it does makes me feel a little lonely :-/

I had read a post (articles are rarely read these days!) about ‘Quarter Life crisis’ and was fascinated by the ‘indications’ of it. Didn’t believe them though at that time, but strangely they are proving to be true :-D :-D many of them are...! Reading an article (Ohh yes, I finally did read an article too!) about it introduced some more exciting terms such as ‘the fear of losing out’ or ‘existential crisis’  that I’d wanted to use, as a show off may be, but, that’s fine! That would be too much to handle! :-D

Anyways, the point is, it does bother sometimes that the changes that are happening all around you, are not happening TO you. It’s not just about the weddings but anything that comes with a particular phase of life. I do remember similar influx of updates from many a friends joining a B-school or graduating with a PG degree, posting their CAT/GATE/GRE/GMAT/whatever scores, or converts, or stuff like that (Show off!) and even that used to bother a little, not much. May be this is also one of those things that is groomed into us – a ‘follow-the-herd’ mindset or a competition!

Everything that’s right for us will eventually happen, and it’s just a question of time. Being happy is all that ever mattered and should always. Oops….what am I writing..! Ran out of thoughts, it’s time to end the post with good wishes to all those who’re soon getting married and hard luck to those who aren’t, any sooner! :-P :-D