Short term goals - to get married

According to Hinduism a man’s life is divided into four stages Childhood , youth where he learns, Adult where he gets married and starts a family of his own and then finally old age when he renounces all the worldly pleasures and places his energy into spirituality and the divine.

On a Saturday, I got this rather heart warming mail from a gentle bloke who practically made me roll me on floor laughing. There was nothing wrong with him and his killer of a photograph showing off his newly purchased Ray-ban glasses I am assuming as the backdrop of the photograph did not indicate that he needed to flaunt shades. Nevertheless, the so called bio-data was very interesting and kept me amused for a long time.

The first thing that caught my attention -

Short Term Goals

To get married

pursue Green Card process

Long Term Goals

Settle in India after 7 or 8 years

I always thought marriage was a life long commitment, didn’t actually realise it was a goal and that to a short term. I kept wondering what he meant by that a short-term goal. At the start he also mentioned that he had won number of prizes for his writing skills. I kept wondering who were the people he was competing against.

He further went on to say:

Outlook/Aspiration in Life

�always happy

never hurt others

be peaceful

successful in all aspects

work hard and take smart decisions

Hmm.. It would have been a perfect brochure for a self help course if he ever chose to start one. I wonder if any of the earthlings wouldn’t want the above mentioned thing. I for once am happy, wonder what about aspiring to be happy and wonder if any one likes to deliberately hurt someone or their feelings. If they did possibly getting in touch with this dude could do them some good.

Something that took the cherry on the cake - reads as follows - “I would like to take care of my life partner very well.” Now now, who would want to marry an abuser who would come drunk home daily or stoned and beat me up.

The mail was signed off with his telephone number and details to get in touch with him. Not to mention there was a miscellaneous section to which reads as follows:

I am very interested in outdoor games, currently I play a lot of Basketball, Shuttle Badminton. Less often - Tennis, Volley ball and Table Tennis.

Know Car driving

can read and write Hindi, can speak a bit too

very inclined to reading books. Used to read lot of novels earlier, currently I spend time reading lot of self help literature

I keep a balance between hard work and relaxation/enjoyment

Well I didn’t end up calling him up nor replying to his mail as he his partner specifications were “Soft Spoken, cheerful, educated(BE or above) and intelligent girl”. I wonder if people think educated only meant doing Engineering. Well I am certainly not anywhere close to being soft spoken and possibly not educated enough for people who send me a bio-data like this.