At about 26,a certain man came along and she said to herself,if you have any sense,you'll marry this man.It was a shot-gun wedding.Indeed,she had practically held a shot-gun over herself and made herself stand up and say,"I do."Even as the priest pronounced them man and wife,she wasn't sure..Ohh she was sure about the man.But, she wasn't sure about herself..About the life-time committment.So as she said,"I do",she said to herself,well atleast i can try it for a couple of years..And ever since she has been trying....and the trial has been on for quite a long time now...But,surprisingly she is still married to him,after several decades..not because she was forced to be with him but because she loved to be with him...
But it was not that easy...with all those hours,days, infact weeks when marriage gave her pain in the neck and no doubt,to her dear husband too.But to whom else would I rather be married?Nobody.And where would I rather go than home?Nowhere,she thought.Her home was nothing less than a madhouse...But the fact was that she loved it there.Yet at times she would think...I would have made such a wonderful bachelorette! Thinking about the days when she had her own wardrobe,her own dressing table,her own room where she could keep everything in neat rows..atleast she could have saved herself from the awful sight of clothes just lying around on the floor,wet towels left on the bed,along with the stinky socks and boxers!!
The only reason she is still married is that she thinks family life is life!A bachelorette lives her life in a vaccum.Afterall a bachelorette's knowledge about life is like that of a goldfish's knowledge about oceanography..She brought up two wonderful kids,not to forget with his help.She had her share of excitement,thrills,drama!!with her sons interrupting her at 11 in the night,forcing her to tell them bed time stories,when she was busy with her laptop finalising her work presentation and her husband interrupting her by calling in between her "important manicure appointments" just to know what she would like for sunday dinner,she could have screamed several times...But she couldn't,because over the ages she feels marriage was the best thing that has ever happened to her..!
And now looking back at those wonderful years,she has realised that being a wife,a mother is a lot more better than being a single woman.Single women have nothing great in life..not even interruptions..They always keep bragging about freedom.They are free to come and go...But free to go where??At least I have somewhere to go,somebody to go to and with,whenever I want to,she convined herself.And its a fact.Because a woman who hasn't been up all night with her baby's temperature at 104 degress and untill its down again,has not been anywhere.A woman who hasn't had plastic ducks and balls in her bath tub hasn't bathed..She was glad she could grow up with two little spoilt sons through nappies,late nights calls and girlfriends,arguments,etc.etc...But the only person who stood by her side all the time was her man..If it wouldn't have been for him,i couldn't have stood married life,she thought.Today after 40 years and with him by her side,she felt she was geting younger and younger each day!!
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