The movie Gravity was released on October 11th 2013 (in India). Who ever saw the movie were just ga ga about it and told me its a must-watch movie, and some recommended me to watch it in IMAX alone. A friend of mine, who had seen it once was ready to watch it again, and in fact he did book tickets for us. I was all set to watch the movie, but life, the way it is, had different plans for me. A day before the release of the movie Gravity I had reluctantly agreed to see a girl my parents and close relatives had found through their personal contacts in their "noble" pursuit of ending my bachelorhood (read: golden years!). Well, meeting this girl and her family was meant to jeopardize my plans of watching the movie Gravity. I must say I did try my best to pre-pone the meeting by two hours so that I could watch the movie after going through the imposition, but for once my father told me "Please co-operate with us today, we will perhaps never bother you again" for which my answer was "Fine! Alright, today! As you say, remember today alone!"
However hard I had tried to get away with marriage in the past, that day,17th October 2013 - to be precise, turned out in favor of my parents's grand aspiration of taking away my single-hood. I did decide to marry that girl because of whom I couldn't see the movie Gravity with my friends. You can consider reading the post "ಮೊದಲ ಪುಟ..." (the first page..) (1) to know how it all happened - all that you need is local language skills.
Being a first timer as per "in-relationship" goes, the courtship was pretty stretched - eight months! On an average I can say that I was just alright during the courtship, at the start in being "ME - my life - my rules" towards becoming "to-be husband material" and (thankfully) survived all the glitches in the journey to eventually get married to the same girl on the scheduled date and time. The least I can say is that it was adventurous, just like jumping into a deep sea for the first time with out a life jacket. Needless to say my then fiancee, and now wife had just enough patience to tolerate my super cool idiosyncrasies!
Getting married is not as bad as I thought several years back. To start with I did watch the movie Gravity with my wife a few months after getting married in a multiplex theater. She does appreciate how hard it was for me to have missed the movie back then just to meet a strange girl in such circumstance. I must also admit marriage brings out the best in you, especially if you are a husband. Here are a few examples. Your memory may become crystal clear during the process. For instance my wife never misses a chance to quiz about her sarees. I've always found greatest of pleasures in answering correctly for the questions "which saree she wore when and for what occasion" and I must also say its by far greater misery in failing to recollect. The other thing that comes to my mind immediately is clothes compacting. Before getting married I had no clue about how to fold clothes and reason behind keep them in order, that too inside some cupboards (for those of you who have seen my past life in hostel this may seem obvious but for rest of you very ridiculous (2) ). But now I think I'm trained to compact all my clothes, bed sheets, etc in no time while keeping them one above the other in a neat order to save my space and time. I do it even efficiently when my wife is pissed off with me for some unknown reason(s).
There are several more things I can probably write, but for now let me not, all that I would say is that the boy in me has taken a trip to adulthood, though little slowly and with a bit of apprehension.
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(1) Meeting my wife for the first time:
http://isiganesh.blogspot.in/2013/11/blog-post.html
(2) A video of my hostel room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TvGWI_IN8c
