INFLATION VS. LOVE

Inflation has the power to bend and break even the evergreen and unflinching feeling called love, which is celebrated by crores of couples around the world on February 14th of every year, popularly known as Valentine's day. Irrespective of the financial class they belong to, when cupid strikes them, all the couples behave in the same manner. 

They all go through the same love cycle, get same signals from each other, get same kind of assistance from their friends, and finally, when they elope to get married, they all make same kind of news headlines. 

However, when inflation strikes, all the couples don't behave in the same way. For a few of them, it may result as a nightmare; they (who are at the lower end of the financial circuit) may go for break-up unable to bear the mopped up financial pressures.

Nowadays, you get honey only when you have money. When money is not there, honey quits you leaving big and deep scars permanently on your smooth soul similar to stretch marks on a pregnant woman's womb. 

No matter what love is inclusive of (emotions, feelings, expressions, etc) and how strong the bond is, very rarely it survives financial hurdles. ONLY THE SUPREME POWER CAN HELP THE COUPLES BY ALLOCATING A BIG CHUNK OF LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO facing, crossing, and surviving financial hurdles. 

CREATING FIRST IMPRESSION

How to make your first impression? This is a million-dollar question to everyone who is eager to make a mark on their partner’s mind. First impression is the best impression. Yet a few say that impressions do not matter. Why people give importance to creating or making impressions? Is it because that whatever they show in the initial moment, the other person remembers those details and never ask anything about these details later? Or, they think that a good start is always a best start?

Sometimes impressions create depressions. People, who create a good impression for the first time may not try to keep it up in the long term. But the effect of their first impression raises the expectations bar creating a dangerous situation for the impression maker. People around the impression-creator want him to display the same kind of effect what he has shown in the first time; making the situation more complicated.

Why we need to give importance to impressions? How reliable they are? What is the right time to make an impression? Is it possible for people to create a new impression; completely opposite to the one that they have already created again on the same set of people? Does the public allow or accept it? If change of impression is allowed, why we, humans, have to give importance to ‘first impression’?       

Questions apart, when it comes to marriage, this blog firmly believes that both bride and groom go by ‘first impression’ in their first meet. This impression stays throughout their life, if everything goes well in their first meet. Life is full of making impressions. As a couple, through their chemistry, both the bride and groom try to start making their first impression on the society by gelling with each other from the marriage day onwards. They put a lot of effort to try to keep this impression in the minds of their surrounding society throughout their life.

Finally, this blog believes that impressions do matter when it comes to marriage.

Take care!

THE FIRST LOOK

Excellent! Marvelous! FANTABULOUS! These are all the adjectives you use that moment we see a bride/groom who really match your preferences. The looks do matter; the physique, the way they dress, how they have groomed themselves, standing postures, body movements, etc. You are yet to talk to our partner but by this time, in your inner soul, you already accepted her/him as your soulmate. How many times this happen in one’s life? Very rarely. Whenever one get this kind of chance, does s/he let it go? Just like that? The sincere answer is NO.

Love needs no language. And some say it is blind. That means, is it both deaf and dumb? And still rocks our souls like an earthquake and tunes our minds just like a sculptor turns a stone into a marvelous statue within a matter of minutes. God knows! However, it works. Once can feel it in our daily activities when we see our dream partner.

Just imagine that your new partner also likes you in the same manner how you love her/him; won’t it become a dream combination? But again, caution! We are living on planet EARTH where Lord Maya plays his role in every aspect. FARAWAY LOOKS DO DECEIVE! One learns this truth only after getting hurt from their experience brickbats. Anyways, just like first love in a person’s life, first look also plays a vital role and it stucks in the minds of lovers for a long time.

Happy cupid strike!

THE GROOMING FACTOR

Grooming factor is very important in every bride’s and groom’s life. If you don’t know how to do that better take advice from beauty industry professionals. These days, people like to watch, talk, and interact only with neat and tidy people. If you are a handsome or beautiful by nature, it is like an icing on the cake. Please remember, people who walk the ramp are not the only ones who get checked out every time from top-to-toe; the moment they step out of their dressing room.  Those days have gone where people used to think that going to beauty parlours and saloons is a big no-no and whoever does that are playing against social norms. These days, if you don’t groom yourself properly, you miss a lot of opportunities.

Life is all about identifying and cashing opportunities. Grooming yourself properly and making yourself attractive to others is the first phase of any interaction to make it successful.  We can compare grooming with having a examination hall-ticket. If hall-ticket is not there, then the opportunity to take the examination is gone forever, right?

Grooming is naturally wired in the minds of ladies.  Even if they stay in forest also, somehow they do their best to decorate themselves attractively with the available stuff like flowers, shells, etc. From Indian perspective, grooming plays a vital role when it comes to bride selection. Nowadays, one can find parlours for gentlemen also. Facials are a regular activity during the weekends in the lives of youngsters. By the time, they reach their marriage age; they are well-versed with all the grooming techniques and know what is best for them in every aspect.

Gone are the Stone Age days where people used to select grooms based on their muscle and hardworking capabilities. In this modern age, only grooms who are chick and smart rule the roost.

Best of luck!  

THE HAPPINESS FACTOR

Enjoy life! This is what everybody thinks but unable to do. Throughout life, humans chase happiness; very few people get it.  This blog feels that the problem lies with humans; they don’t know what makes them happy. Confused, they chase so many things at the same time to grab happiness; finally, ending up with nothing.

In life, for so many people marriage is one such event that they think gives happiness. Indirectly, the expectation is that the entry of their life partner in to their life brings happiness. This is the reason why people check so many times before zeroing on their life partner. Every bride and groom has so many dreams and expectations about their married life. They want to experience all those imagined things in their real life. 

When it comes to couple, happiness lies in their sparkling chemistry. If they find rhythm in life, they definitely experience more happiness between them. However, how to find the rhythm? The answer lies in checking and knowing each other’s hobbies, pleasure movements, etc. Understanding one’s own life is something but understanding your life partner’s life and excitement details are something else.  You gain from it. You enjoy it. And you want it. 

From playing games to collecting souvenirs, everything counts. Why don’t you plan something to do along with your partner to make him/her better understand your intentions? 

Best of luck!

THE FOOD FACTOR

What we eat and how we eat tells lot of things about us. Nowadays, there are varieties of dishes; from continental to corner-street food. Again there are vegetarian and non-vegetarian food categories. Every dish has its own taste and specialty. Around the world, we have so many foodies, who relish the taste of food and follow ‘live to eat’ concept. And there are so many chefs, who are hell-bent on making a tasty dish with ingredients from unknown origins. However, there are so many instances around this world, where a marriage has been broken on the following points: no tasty food, expected menu not served, etc.

Normally, before agreeing for marriage, both the bride and groom check their food preferences. If one is vegetarian and another is a non-vegetarian, the compatibility factor crashes like anything. As you all know that there are a few people around this world who do not prefer even to eat egg. These people are pure vegetarians and they get hurt a lot when someone tries to compromise their food preferences. Similarly, on this planet, we have non-vegetarians, who don’t gulp if any non-vegetarian item has not been added to it. 

In a love marriage, since the couple knows each other and their preferences, there is chance that they adjust or somehow manage their preferences.  And in arranged marriages, there is no chance for this kind of adjustment since both the parties belong to the same community. When it comes to love-cum-arranged marriage, where couple meets online, fall in love, and then the parents step in but realize the other party is from a different background, this food factor plays a very important role. In this kind of scenario, there is a chance that both the bride and groom decide to step out of their marriage deal since the other party either does not agree to give discount when it come to changing their food preferences. In this case, since they don’t have time to see each other physically, most probably they discuss with each other lot many things other than food and get stumped because of this factor only when they have decided to seal their love with marriage.

This blog suggests that you should give about minor but important details like food a thought while you were trying to know each other; before marriage itself.  

Best of luck!

THE BEAUTY FACTOR

Beauty – this is what everyone looks for in this world, in everything. Humans are no exception! Every bride and groom looks for a beautiful or handsome partner. Remember! Looks matter! Shape counts! People look at you first before they decide whether to talk or not with you. Based on the impression you make with them, they decide whether to pursue any matter with you or not. Always keep in mind; face is an indication of your inner happiness. This world believes that people, who are happy, know how to make and keep others happy. So, try to be happy and healthy in life. 
  
In marriage, beauty factor matters a lot. Unless there is a heavy pressure in some form or other, normally, people always dream, chase, and go for a beautiful life partner. All this game starts when your partner sees you or your photo somewhere in a fascinating place and your figure profile matches with their dream partner’s profile. Then the search for you starts. Once s/he finds you, they chase you to know more about you. After they realize that they have enough information, they decide to zero in on you. This process happens in every contact of a bride and groom. 

Now, the point is how you manage your looks to attract your dream partner? It is not just dreaming for a beautiful/handsome partner. To get such kind of partner, you need to make yourself match with him/her in looks, right? In this world, when it comes to match making, a 6-foot guy tries to go for a bride, who is at least 5.8 foot and above but below 6; not for a lady who is below 5-foot, right? Same thing applies in every point – weight, looks, academics, etc – MATCHING. Maybe, this is the reason why this game is called MATCHMAKING! LOL!

Best of luck!