Changes: Wanting to be married
I have forever detested the concept of marriage. I never understood why people needed to be married. My parents haven’t done anything to enhance my opinion on marriage either.
I have always been a solitary being. I hated to be with people and any form of company. Its not that I was a shy person or something, I’ve been able to manage myself in a crowd. Its just that I never felt lonely or sought that special someone to be with. I had always been happy with myself and had even vowed to be single forever.
I had this elaborate dream where I would be stinkingly rich, (with my brains, I always thought I would be anything I wanted to be) and that I would own this huge apartment on the top floor of a skyscraper. It would have just one room with a couch, television, balcony and a huge window on one side of the wall. When I draw the blinds open, I would have a view of the endless sky. It seemed like a perfect life to me. A life without anyone to care for and without any accountability. And I thought I would adopt someone when I feel ready for the responsibility. It seemed like a great life until Archana came along and disturbed my apple cart.
It would seem like every girl’s dream but, even as a guy, I always thought I needed someone to sweep me off my feet. Someone who would make me feel that I can’t live without her. Someone who would make me go to the ends of the earth just to touch the tip of her hair. Someone who would make me feel the need for company.
In Archana, I’ve found all this and more. Not only that, she has forever changed my view on marriage and she didn’t even have to argue with me about it. She is someone whom I truly want to be married to for the rest of my life. She is someone I want to grow old with, someone I would be willing to share my space with and give away my precious perfect dream of bachelorhood because there is nothing in this world that I want more than to be with her. And now I know the sanctity of marriage and respect the institution that has been binding people in love together for ages.
(This is part 2 of my ongoing posts on changes I’ve noticed in myself since I met Archana. You can read the Part 1 here.)
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