Holy Matrimony! Holy Confounded Status Quo!!

I have wondered often if there is any truth to the belief that if you are too happy, you might feel sad soon...or atleast come by some real good opportunity of being sad. One thing I do know though, is that sadness serves to break the monotony of the utter drudgery of happiness. Or, maybe, sadness is the end towards which happiness leads us. Sort of like a repeater. Every time we get too bored and used to happiness, there comes along dear 'sadness' to give us a boost and allow us to appreciate happiness.

In which case, sadness is not really a bad thing. That is why I say 'dear sadness'...though I do dread this 'dear' quite a bit. No one likes to be sad. And one cannot always be happy? Really?

One reason why I write this at all is because I am told that I reek of 'singleness'. That, somehow, I do not complete the picture...that in the order of things I have dared so much as to decide to maintain status quo much to the consternation of friend and foe alike.

'It's high time you got married.'

'What more do you want?'

'Really, you will age out of reckoning if you do not act fast enough.'

But maybe that's just that. I do not want anymore than I already have...a nice and peaceful life. Why add another dimension and create multiple possibilities of 'happiness' and 'sadness' so that life becomes spicy and I develop a peptic ulcer!

'When you are 70, or 60 even, you will want a companion.'

But society today offers more options than it did a few years ago. One has more choices in the matter of lifestyle. Maybe, there will be an "old blokes' club to provide companionship at old age". And I am definitely not ready, as yet to give up on being the nuisance of an old (but rich) uncle whom my nephews and nieces will be forced to tolerate. In fact I fully intend to be one whom everyone big and small in the family would recognize as 'the one' not to trifle with but give much pampering instead.

"But then, are you happy?"

Well, I am not sad. And do not, very much, intend to be soon.