Anything, and everything, can go viral on the internet. Generally, i am not in to such stuff. Well, one of the reasons is that it is often almost a gang war. There are groups of 'friends' who support each other no matter what, who praise each other sky high for every minor achievement, et al. This gang attacks the 'other' so viciously, with such venom, and with such systematic mafiosi techniques that the real, the original mafioso would blush, not beetroot, but blood red! And, oh, yes, they all call themselves ooh-so- sensitive aware intellectuals, etc, etc, etc!
Despite this aversion of mine, i am going to talk of a viral post today because it is quite a gem. It is, moreover, not of the arty-farty variety. It is a simply hilarious essay written by a student. It deals with the theme 'marriage'. The student seems to be an almost Emile Zolaesque observer of the institution. While reading these few lines, one can flippantly say that most all characteristics of 'naturalism' of the later part of the nineteenth century appear to have come alive in these few lines.
According to the tweet which is available on the Lokmat Internet@google search, the student writes, " marriage is when a girl gets big, and her parents say, you are big now, we can't feed you any longer, you go find a guy who can feed you. Then the girl meets a boy whose parents are shouting at him, you are big now. So they get married, and do nonsense for children"!
The student is quite some philosopher who seems to have located the brass tacks of that 'age-old' (as per the student's definition, too!) institution, namely, bread-n-butter and procreation! Poor Shakespeare who wrote of the "marriage of true minds"!
Pratima@ I suppose if the student were to write a little longer, he would have agreed with Rita Rudner who states, "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
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