The year was 2008 and once again I thought of doing some thing with my life and again I was in the same shit that I always faced. I decided to increase my knowledge and after much tantrums and convincing done on the part of my parents I was finally able to secure admission at the le cordon blue college in Adelaide , Australia.
I got my passport renewed and and applied for a students loan. The plan was simple and if everything went well I would soon be out of the country for good. I hadn't thought about what exactly I was looking for but it was more for the love of leaving the country for good.
While I was in the process of doing all this , I also got a marriage proposal from Australia. Another complication . Now those who have known of my plan to get married to Priyanka in case she was able to move abroad fell in to jeopardy. This girl from Australia was a engineer and was working as a hydrologist . I became suddenly aware that it was to be my good fortune if I was able to marry this girl rather then getting married to Priya.
The advantages of getting married to this girl were as follows-
1)I get a permanent resident status for Australia ( the main goal of the whole exercise )
2)I get her to pay all my fees and expenses in Australia ( I don't need to take the Bank loan )
3)All right I agree she is not very good looking but then I will convince myself that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. ( what the hell , I need the money )
4)I will live happily ever after as in all fairy tales .
Well I wrote down the advantages and send my Bio data and cool looking pics ( according to me ) to her parents . I thought this was a sure shot game of ending all my problems but the only problem was , after doing all this , a week has passed without a reply which means that my luck has finally ditched me again.
The worst thing that happened during all this was that I broke up with Priya in the hope of getting rid of her , as she no longer served my purpose and would have proved to be an emotional baggage on my conscious.
A bad decision but I think she loves me a lot and still wants to marry me and asks if the girl from Australia has decided or not . Each day passes and I know that with each day the chances of her replying in on a positive note become less .
In todays world when everything is considered to be a material decision some how I felt wrong in doing all this. I felt that cheating Priyanka was not the right thing to do , but time made me do it . Now this girl Priyanka is a big God fearing person and goes to temple everyday and I think she prays to god that I should not get married to this girl . I actually don't think she is doing this but I believe it.
Damn , I know she is more close to god because the only time I speak to god is when I am in some real deep shit , which is when I didn't do my home work in school and prayed to god that the teacher doesn't ask for the home work and at times when I needed a miracle to happen like getting a job when I got really frustrated sitting at home. She on the contrary goes to temple everyday and prays to god inevitably what may come . Damn I am like the Mumbai Indians team which is constantly loosing every game they play . Maybe I should slap some body like Harbhajan Singh and get banned then playing for a looser team.
Now , the situation has become precarious . While the girl from Australia hasn't replied and the bank loan hasn't been approved ,chances are very bright that all the best laid plans may never be full filled . Which leaves me again with the question whether I will ever get that happily ever after that Shrek goes to find at the Fairy God mother in the movie.
“I got a proposal from Australia , the girl is a engineer with an MBA and works as a hydrologist in Hobart , Australia .”
“ So what have you decided ?” “ Are you going to get married to her .” She asked. “I am not really very sure , I think if she says yes .” I answered .
The phone clicked and the line went dead . Priyanka was gone for the time being. This however was the shortest call that I made to Priya till date. I was too happy to think about this at the moment . An engineer with an MBA . She must be earning well and since the Bio Data did not mention how much she was earning I took the liberty of logging on the net and search for how much a "hydrologist", the profession she mentioned earned in Australia.
I was really happy to see that they earned well. This could be the fairy tale ending that I was looking for unlike the hindi movie scenario , where a hero has to fight all the villains to get the girl. Here the hero of the story was willing to get paid to leave the girl he wanted to marry for the money .
The only thing that could hamper this plan was if the girl in question said no. I really thought that it was an impossible situation as the girl in question , if I thought right , was thirty one years old , not a looker and not getting much proposals for marriage. The question was how many guys in India actually think like me and may have been logging on to a marriage portal were she was a member . Yes , I took the liberty of searching her on the net . Finding her there however wasn't exactly a very good thing in my evil plan as this meant that she had a choice. Of coarse I am not the only guy who thinks this way in India . I am sure there are many like me who would marry a girl living abroad for the NRI status that is conferred upon a few lucky guys.
Day one – I opened my mail . No reply .
Day two- I opened my mail . No reply.
Day three- I open my mail. No reply
Day four, five , six , seven – I open my mail. No reply
Damn . My worst fears had started taking form . Yeah , I think this was it . Another castle in the sky with no firm base tumbling to the ground. However I had kinda lost my pillar of support Priyanka in the process.
“ hello , Priyanka”
“ Yeah what do you want ?”
“ Please Siddhartha , what have you decided , should I start looking for other guys”
“ Do what you want , I an not interested in you . Unfortunately you haven't kept your part of the bargain so I have nothing to do with you.” I answered and slammed the phone down.
I wondered why I was trying to loose her when I was not sure if the girl from Australia would agree to marry me .
I have always believed that my life is a fairy tale and is gong to end like one and this has kept me going through worst of times . I remember when I had five rupees in my pocket I believed that everything would be all right and it turned out to be all right. Maybe it is my star sign that guides me through all this .
Let us see what is going to happen tomorrow. I think I will watch the match now .After all it is MS Dhoni against the Royal challengers at the I P L .
