I have been having this particular conversation with my mom at regular intervals for the past 5 years now! It Always begins and ends in the same way…..

Mom: So your friend (/neighbour/colleague/family friend) is marrying (/married) such and such guy….a good choice!

Me: Grunt.

Mom: So what was wrong with that guy’s profile send by Mrs. S(uperangel)..he also has similar attributes…

Me: (I can feel my bp moving towards the danger level)...It’s not the profile…it’s the process that I hate!!

Mom: Ok…so just say that you don’t want to get married and we will end it there.

Me: (My desperately controlled decibel level increasing a tad bit) Why does it have to be no marriage or arranged marriage? Why can’t I let it be….if I find someone….

Mom: (Cuts in) So why cant you find someone??

(I take this opportunity to try and explain the concept of love…an all consuming, forever kind of love…yaaa sadly even at this age I am a hopeless romantic)

Me: It’s not that easy….at this age it’s very difficult to find a guy (Delhi anyway I think is saturated!) who can tolerate me and I will like him so much that I decide to spend the rest of my life with him.

Mom: You know that’s why I say put your profile on shaadi.com…atleast you’ll get to meet somebody who you may like!!

(For all my genuine trying, my passionate outburst not only falls way beyond the target but lands in some forlorn desert!)
By this time…I am hopping mad, sputtering like an idiot and ready to bite off somebody’s head. And it’s getting ever difficult for me to explain.

Out here like many of my rebel generation, I am still waiting for a non existent prince charming…and out there the younger generation is getting married at the age of 23-34 and that too to those chosen by their parents!! Sacrilege!!
Now then seriously I cannot blame my Mom for being confused and hyper, can I? But I don’t want this conversation no more!! I can’t change my mom; can somebody change the younger generation please!!!