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Being the married guy

'So, how does it feel?'
'Oye hoye, shaadi shuda insaan!'
'You're married, waaaaaaoh!'
'Congrats! Your prison term begins now!'
'It must be bliss now...but wait for it my friend'

No amount of italics or bold fonts can justify the knowledge, the pleasure, the displeasure and many such feelings to which I am innocent to that people express when they come to know that I am the newly married guy. I am partly to blame for that. I couldn't resist expressing my happiness and excitement to everyone and anyone I have known for 20 minutes or more. But it did not take long for me to realize that it was a grave mistake to do so in a 'connected everywhere all the time' world.

You say the M word and people have all the gyaan to share with you. Like they have been married forever to know everything or if it is a kind of a cheap course that everyone has a doctorate in magna summa laude. Surprisingly, I did not know there was such a study option available.

Office breaks, more often than not became fertile discussion grounds for many a 'domesticated' colleagues. Online portals talked (and still talk) about my wedding only. Everyone meets me with a big 'trophy like glint' in their eyes and a wide smile plastered over their face. It definitely makes me happy but also pops up a question in my mind.

Err...isn't it enough?!

I am totally happy. Have the wife I want - the job I like - the home which is not perfect [but that is why it is a home and not a house] but the reactions people throw border outrageous in my scheme of things. Just saying.

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