Monday, November 24, 2008

Faith ~ I guess that works ...

It's almost end of November. I still remember last year I was counting days to return to India in January '08. One year seemed to pass extremely fast. Well, the year has been really productive overall. AND many of my friends are getting married this year end. Nov end and December are full of weddings. This winter, My friends are tying the knot to be together forever n ever... May God Bless them all. :-)

On the other end, in my office (at client site of course) there are non-Indians who keep wondering regarding how does 'arrange' marriages really work where someone else choose the partner for you? It's been an impression about our culture that we get married to the person whom our parents choose - basically blindly :-).

I try to explain them always; that Parents do the necessary filtering (which scientifically is right and required) and then the final choice is in individual's hands. I do agree that there are still families, villages etc in India, where this choice is not given to the bride or the groom. But as far as most of the cases in today's world are concerned, we are given the free choice.

'Arrange marriage' is indeed a process not proven with any method but is represented with facts in numbers - like how many marriages are successful. To me also, it's the magic unknown. Whoever goes through it, also says the same thing - they do not know how they ended up saying 'yes' to each other. I think all that works behind this is -"Faith"; Faith in God; Faith in Existence; Faith in this Universe. Once you have Faith; you know that if your heart agrees for someone in this process - that's gonna be just right!

I have not gone through this yet but I know I have to - some day; & I am sure the other end is unaware of the magic of faith too :-)... so guess that's how it works ~

~Krupa~

3 comments:

Sathish said...

Well... Is this called rationalizing?? :-?

Leave it... Let it be Faith... It looks a lot better that way :)

Samy said...

Lol !!! I culdnt resist commenting on this one after myself going through the arranged marriage stint. Well I know it has its own pros n cons but at the end all is good. Love I think is in our hands whether to make it successful before the marriage (as in love marriages) or make it after the marriage (as in arranged marriages). But yeah it does have its own faith n numbers attached to it.

Cheers

Samy

Padawan said...

Good to see two posts from the same author - one for arranged marriage and one for love marriage (very old post I think)... Nice one... Faith, Love and Trust...