Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Knotty times ahead

Boy meets girl
They fall in love
They get married
They live happily ever after

If only love stories were so simple and straight forward. Hmmm. But then, if they were so sasf (that's short for simple and straight forward) I am sure we wouldn't have had works like 'Romeo and Juliet' or 'Devdas'. Nor would we have had movies like 'Titanic' or 'Romeo and Juliet'. Or for that matter, the Indian mainstream motion picture industry in its entirety.

As per my experience, personal and second-hand included, the real life love story goes more like this:

Boy meets girls... Ok, before the self proclaimed feminist brigade raises an objection or a hue 'n' cry (whichever is easier) let me clarify that it could very well be Girl meets Boys but for the sake of brevity and lack of experience in terms of presenting that particular perspective, I shall stick to my gender as the main protagonist of the story. With that disclaimer out of the way, let me start again.

The real life love story. in general, goes more like this:

Boy meets girls before he finally meets THE girl
Usually this is because the ones before THE girl don't think he is close to being their purrfect guy. To use a cliched phrase - our boy is "not even in the same postal code". That is, till he meets THE girl.

They fall in love
That she actually falls for someone rejected by so many before her might make you wonder if the girl has really low standards. What really happened was that he just moved into the right postal code!!!

They fall out of love
Essentially because one of them wakes up to realize that the other is not, after all, all that purrfect.

Now repeat steps 1 thru 3 and after a few iterations, for reasons unknown, they progress to step 4 which is when
They tell their families about their intention to get married
This could lead to a varied set of reactions from said families like stunned disbelief, shock-induced heart attacks and character assassination, bracketed on one end by silent acceptance and 'Great -Wall -of-China'esque opposition on the other.

This is where the real life love story ends because at this point, the 'Getting Married' and 'Living happily ever after' steps might or might not follow and hence can't be listed down with any degree of certainty. Before anyone asks, this sudden interest in love stories is because mine happens to be one of those which has managed to reach the 'Getting Married' stage. And, once again before anyone asks, my story did follow the steps above but not in the exact manner (No iterations!! To say otherwise would end up netting me a couple of black eyes, courtesy the girlfriend)

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the real love stories; I think that's why I love movies like When Harry Meet Sally. That movie actually reminds me a lot of my relationship with my husband. There is no happily ever after there is only right now and the hard work that goes into keeping it the way you want it.

Mohan Kumar D said...

yes this is the true story of life

Anonymous said...

hehe..thats a nice post !!!

Ian said...

In Korean soaps, they always have the same story: two boys meet two girls and then they eventually swop partners. I don't know why, but Koreans just seem to love that story.

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Anonymous said...

You have to figure, if it really was "boy meets girl, fall in love, get married, live happily ever after" everyone would get so terribly bored.

Acacia Boleyn said...

Oh, Hollywood, you crazy standard!

to k- everyone would get so terribly bored because no one would have anything to cry over...and then we'd solve world hunger and live in a utopia paradise. Therefore, I quite like the idea of successful romance. :-)

kara said...

complicated huh?

love is sweet when getting seriously hooked up is out of the plan. my boyfriend believes its better to not let the families know about plans og getting married - this way we can do away negative comments and violent reactions. haha!

Anonymous said...

'Getting married' stage eh ? Congratulations !!!

Mine would be 'THE boy met THE girl but they aren't always in the same postal code' :(

Oh well. Nice post.

Naomi said...

Very realistic one. :)