Is it 2 young 2 fall in LOVE???...

It is quite a modern fashion statement for a bloke to say to a girl...Heh, I love you... Many say it so many times that finally its just like wishing someone a good day for them... And the extraordinary stuff is that girls take it in that way as well....well, most of them aneway....

U know Malayalis and Indians at large are so proud and boastful of our great and rich cultural heritage... But the way the present upcoming generation is headed, the ancient customs and beliefs will soon become just that - EXTINCT!!!... Arranged marriages are already a thing of the past...And at the rate of modernization that we are going through, sex before marriage(and plenty of it) will become just as customary as brushing your teeth before sleep(well if that is the case, then maybe there's a chance - coz i'm not 2 particular abt that!!!...but then u get the idea!!!...)...

Nowadays if a guy or a girl in their early twenties goes home and tells their parents that they're in love with someone, then 9 out of 10 times the parents will be ready to listen and go along with the wishes of their 'mature' wards...Just take the example of my brother.... One fine morning, (well night actually) he calls our parents together and tells them that he is in love with a classmate of his and that he wants to marry her. There is no caste difference and anything, so pretty soon his marriage is fixed and 3 years later they're married and have already completed a year of being together(God save my sis-in-law!!!!:-D)...

But still the question remains...When does a boy and a girl decide that: "Yeah, we've got something good and serious going on here...Maybe this should be more than just another relationship..." some oldtimers will say that falling in love is not good at any age, until and unless one is engaged to the mate in concern. Any modern-day, practical parent you ask will probably say that you have to be atleast 21!!!... To them I say - I respect your views a lot, but if I can help decide who rules the nation at the age of 18, then why can't I make this decision at that age as well???...

This has got all the hallmarks of being a great topic for a national debate, but then there's yet another point I'd like to make...

The Indian judiciary has named 18 as the minimum age for marriage for girls... Now does that not mean that girls have the right to decide who they wanna live with(i.e. who their lover is) by that age???... The government and the judiciary has also toyed with the idea of bringing down that age limit to 15 for girls and 18 for boys...That idea was even implemented for a few days in a state... Now if that idea has gone through such scrutiny, then does that not mean that the idea has some sort of factual basis behind it???... Then, maybe we can say that yeah kids around the age of 15 can decide whom they wanna fall in love with...

Now, there are a lot of views expressed above, of which I believe in none!!!... I believe that there is no age for falling in love...One 'can' fall in love at age 18 and just as surely one 'can' fall in love at age 81!!!... Why everyone who is born into this world falls in love from the second that they open their eyes... The first love of any man, woman, boy or girl is defenitely their mother...

But when one talks of love as being the emotion that one feels towards a life partner, age I believe, is no barrier... As Gregory Robert Joseph says in his book 'Shantharam', when one meets the person you are meant to be with in your life, you just know it... The first time you see each other, or the first time you speak or whatever, you feel a sort of connection, an invisible bond, just like the one a newborn baby senses towards its mother... Now, my seniors will probably think, God how did he come to know all this.......................

To them I say:

I READ!!!...

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

- BiBinhio.