Seven WedlockYears

Another June 25 appears on the calendar and yet another wait for the elusive 'surprise’ anniversary gift…Guess some special days appears once every year to remind you of ages crossed, of times spent, of relations ripened, of distances crossed in life’s myriad journeys. It’s a sort of ‘status check’, a milestone realization..sometimes just a simple tick in the box to count the years spent in each others’ company. And June 25 brings me fresh memories of a monsoon wedding..of my ‘plunging’ moment headlong into something they call the ‘wedlock’…

Hmmm..wonder why they term it the wedlock?? What exactly do we ‘lock’ ourselves into….A heavy commitment that’s difficult to snap..A little ‘family fence’ of our own creation..A few ground rules  between two individuals who were hitherto in two different ecosystems…Maybe it’s also a ‘lock’ to keep away your bachelorhood traits..your ‘single woman’ freedom..and many more nicks and nacks that one cherishes  in your journey through corridors of childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Perhaps it also signifies the perfect ‘inter lock’…two individuals who have to fit into each other into a perfect lock…one cannot overlap the other…no ‘gaps’ and ‘spaces’ between the two..a perfect complementary ‘twosome’!

But come this June 25 and our family portrait carries a few changes…a few additional shades of grey..visible maternity stretchmarks..and a little cherubic face beaming and bonding the two of us….reminding us of our journey as  ‘man and wife’ with the additional titles of ‘father’ and ‘mother’!