yes....we have performed the marriage of our only daughter..... just recently .. on jan28 ..2007 to be precise. the event we were looking forward to ... since the day she was born(now u start saving my sister in law told my husband.u have a daughter now).and there were the usual match fixings(how about ramu? or anil?rani>s son?)as she grew up there were the usual dark warnings too. watch out ratna.these days are bad. u have to keep a careful eye on her.and i shivered in pleasant anticipation of all of it,girding myself to the onerous task.
Well having an only child is like that. u dont have too many choices to divert ur mind .so here i made my brother who was at bandar at that time (practicing law as an apprentice to our uncle himself)to go to the family astrologer and draw her birth chart .sadly it said her marriage will be a late one and all the rigamarole about saturn and mars sitting somewhere and eyeing each other like they do in feudal films.
so anasuya grew up and i was carefully watching overand preparing my self for all the eventualities exept that nothing of the foreseen happened(by gods grace).she was a normal kid ...did not cause me too many sleepless nights..(though one or two times i thuuought ..this it .. a love affair ..but they turned about to be nothing but my imagination) studied well and agreed to the charming boy we arranged for her.and belieng the astrological predictions was married at 22. (thank u saturn and mars ..we misunderstood u)
the marriage went well too..ofcource we forgot to invite her friend down the lane(just a row away), and few realclose friends , her paedeatrician, her schoo principal... remembered few things we could have done.only after the d day.
one thing ironically..or is this the norm today?....neither me or her father shed a tear during the whole thingto the chagrin of our son in law who it seems betted 100 dollars with anasuya(she told us later) that we would cry copiously at the parting scene.disappointed, he wondered if he was the one who should cry.
so that is how it went...it was not thatdifficult as has been said or that heart breaking to see off an only daughter. sure ..we have spent a lot of our savings..sure we felt a great deal foot sore afterwards... sure we are missing our anasuya...but it compensates a lot to know she is with her lifemate...the only draw back seems to be that i am left with a lot of time in my hands..... i have lenghthened my pooja timings... decided to to some charitable work(i dont have a foggiest ideaof what it is).....made a vow to do ramanamam all the time(it is as slippery as an eel)AND having seen anasuya tinkering with her system decided i too will enter the great computer revolution and be a menace to all the good netizens of this world with my blogging.
Well having an only child is like that. u dont have too many choices to divert ur mind .so here i made my brother who was at bandar at that time (practicing law as an apprentice to our uncle himself)to go to the family astrologer and draw her birth chart .sadly it said her marriage will be a late one and all the rigamarole about saturn and mars sitting somewhere and eyeing each other like they do in feudal films.
so anasuya grew up and i was carefully watching overand preparing my self for all the eventualities exept that nothing of the foreseen happened(by gods grace).she was a normal kid ...did not cause me too many sleepless nights..(though one or two times i thuuought ..this it .. a love affair ..but they turned about to be nothing but my imagination) studied well and agreed to the charming boy we arranged for her.and belieng the astrological predictions was married at 22. (thank u saturn and mars ..we misunderstood u)
the marriage went well too..ofcource we forgot to invite her friend down the lane(just a row away), and few realclose friends , her paedeatrician, her schoo principal... remembered few things we could have done.only after the d day.
one thing ironically..or is this the norm today?....neither me or her father shed a tear during the whole thingto the chagrin of our son in law who it seems betted 100 dollars with anasuya(she told us later) that we would cry copiously at the parting scene.disappointed, he wondered if he was the one who should cry.
so that is how it went...it was not thatdifficult as has been said or that heart breaking to see off an only daughter. sure ..we have spent a lot of our savings..sure we felt a great deal foot sore afterwards... sure we are missing our anasuya...but it compensates a lot to know she is with her lifemate...the only draw back seems to be that i am left with a lot of time in my hands..... i have lenghthened my pooja timings... decided to to some charitable work(i dont have a foggiest ideaof what it is).....made a vow to do ramanamam all the time(it is as slippery as an eel)AND having seen anasuya tinkering with her system decided i too will enter the great computer revolution and be a menace to all the good netizens of this world with my blogging.
1 comment:
we too share all ur feelings.may anasuya be happy with her lifemate.
Post a Comment