Grades...admissions...crushes...affairs...breakups...MARRIAGE?????????

Life is one funny journey. Things around you change and change so fast that at times you find yourself unable to keep pace with it.

The last few months have been all about most of my acquaintances getting married - it used to sound like one big celebration till it was happening to someone else. However, perspective changes when things happen to people close to you.

Very recently, three very close have informed - two of them via e-mails and the third one via call respectively, that they are getting engaged followed by marriage very soon. Believe it or not, the first thing that comes in to your mind is Oh Shit!!!

I mean these are the guys you have grown up with - cribbing about grades or crushes - the most diheartening being a break up or tough time at work. But Marriage - it always was a part of your conversation but you were never at it. But now...Oh shit!!!

It's a funny feeling - somehow that friend's better half is always going to be around and you will never have your friend all to yourself. Somehow the two of them will always have things to talk about that you cannot even relate to. Somehow you cannot understand why and how this one change has changed and will change your equations completely. I mean you can no longer call up at 12 am and abuse your friend for not having called you or for having missed your birthday - the chances of which are all the more strong now that they will have better distractions in life.

Hmmmmm. Probably all this is just an outcome of not knowing how to react. Probably, I would be dancing around at all three marriages and be happy as ever and wishing them good luck. But for now, it's not sinking in.