Single and Looking!!!!!!!

In relationships, a single person is one who is not married, or, more broadly, who is not in an exclusive romantic relationship.

Single people may engage in dating to find a partner or spouse. Not all single people actively seek out a relationship, however, as some are content to wait for the 'right' person to enter their lives, while others do not seek relations at all.

-www.wikipedia.org

This blog is dedicated to all guys who are single and wondering what exactly went wrong. Did cupid just miss me, or maybe I’m just too thick skinned that I never felt it when he shot me in my butt!

I can totally relate to what you are feeling now. Trust me!

Its a Sunday evening, and I ve got enough in my life to keep me worried for something like the next 2,357 years… but what do I do???? I sit down and mull about the fact that I’m single. Right now, I might be giving you people the impression that I’m a pathetic guy who never found love in his life, but Hey! That’s part of the plan to make this blog appear interesting. You never know, this might eventually find its way to some text book in some godforsaken university. I’m sure there must be people who study absolutely useless stuff!

When it comes to getting a girlfriend, finding the right girl could really tire you down. 83% of the girls that u either work or go to college with are just plain stupid. And the remaining is just too smart to fall for someone like you.

OK, you have found the perfect girl and you think that the hardest part is over, I’m sorry mate! From here on it could get only tougher. Asking a girl out these days has become more complex than calculus. It is just too much of a trouble. First you got to befriend her. WATCH OUT! Cos, if u are just a tad careless, then you find yourself too close to her. You are in the “zone “, she thinks you are a good friend. Then it starts all over again, the only respite being that the pool of eligible girls just got wider with your new “best friend’s” girl friends all joining it.

When exactly did it become this complicated? There must’ve been a time when things were much easier. When girls were aplenty and they did not give a damn about you being a dumb ass or whether you had a good sense of humor.

If you ask me, Adam was the luckiest guy this world has ever seen. He did not have to shave everyday; he did not need designer clothes or expensive dates to ask Eve out, did not have to worry about the girl finding out that he had dandruff. I guess all he must have done was to grunt. Poor Eve had no choice but to tag along with him. After all the very continuance of mankind was hanging on her decision! I don’t know whether they lived happily ever after, but even if they didn’t, they really did not have much choice. Sometimes too many choices could get really get you nowhere (definitely not the story of my life, my life is like a multiple choice question with no choices, and with negative marking!)

Well, time went by, man invented the wheel. But what is more important in the context of this blog is that man also got busy, and made lot more of his own kind. NOW, there was competition! Something that he had not encountered before. There was this very handsome caveman right next door with cool hair flying in all directions and a very cute (but quite smelly) smile. And he has got this really cool gadget that makes cleaning the intestine of a wild boar a lot easier. The girl appears to be interested in him. How was he to get his girl??? Aah! All you have to do was jus go down to her place, hit her over her head with your club and carry her back to your cave. And if the guy gives you any trouble, just use his own gadget on him. Zappak!

Kings and princes had it easy, all that you had to do was to build a TajMahal or just cross seven hills and the seven oceans, find the tower, kill the dragon and the girl is in your arms. Bah! Anybody could do that! And the really lucky ones just waged war and killed a few hundred thousands to get their girl. So what if you have already been married 26 times and the girl was the 43^rd queen of the neighboring kingdom. True love was what that counted back then.

I would like to see Shajahan asking Mumtaz for a date and taking her out on a Saturday night and telling her that he loves her. I’m sure the fellow would‘ve peed in his pants and Mumtaz would’ve eloped with his bodyguard.

Victorian age wasn’t that bad either, all u needed was pants so tight that they leave little for imagination. Learn to fight with swords, ride the horse, kill a couple of bad guys… or even easier BE the bad guy yourself. Zoro, Robinhood, the Scarlet Pimpernel… Dames just loved them all. If swordfight was not really your cup of tea, then all you had to do was visit the local town hall, get friendly with the father of the girl. Buy him a couple of drinks and tell him you’re rich. The next thing u knew, you are already married to the girl. Girls really did not have that much of a spine those days. Yeah of course you would’ve been dating her dad more than the girl herself. But when was the last time you had the cake and ate it too?

Turn of the century saw things taking a dramatic twist. Girls got smarter (or atleast a percentage of them did). You had to go through a lot more hardships than swordfight or dragons or building tajmahals. New concepts like” impressing the girl”, “personal hygiene” and “dressing smart” came into picture. Guys like us I think got lost here.

Not to mention the advertisement world. Man! Do they add more pressure on you or what? You see this guy who sips a cool drink and then the girl with the hourglass figure dumps the hunk and gets on the bike with this fellow. After trying out gallons of these drinks you realize that they don’t get you girls but they definitely get you burpy enough for all girls to screw up their nose when they see you!

So unless you are Adam or a Mughal king who can afford a full fledged marble tombstone or someone from the deodorant/soft drink/chewing gum advertisement world, GUYS! Pull your socks up and get down to serious business. It is every man for himself out there! The world doesn’t need another Mr.Heckles. Go and find your girl and ask her out, and before actually doing that just make sure that u have brushed your teeth and for a change wear a pair of jeans that doesn’t smell of dead rats.

-Karthikeyan