Have you ever wondered, of all the years that you have spent on this beautiful planet, which part of your life would you look back and cherish the most? Can you recall that part of your life when everything seemed balanced, you were self sufficient, people noted and recognized you as though you were a superstar? I have been experiencing quite the same in the last ten months, and hence, have cultivated an opinion that being a 26 year old is one of the best things to happen in a man's life.
I will start with the second most important part of a man's life - his career. Taking myself as an example, I am an average BE graduate who was recruited by a slightly above average company for a slightly below average package. Inspite of all the avergaisms in me, I have sort of settled down in these four years of my career. Normally, with the amount of experience one posseses at this stage of the career, a high percentage of men would have switched the working organization thus leading to a better package. This in turn leads to a bank balance which once looked like a starved Urmila Matondkar, now looks like a fully fed Great Khali.
Perhaps the best part of being 26 lies in the marriage portion of one' life. If one is married, he would still be in the early day's of marriage. A new car and a new wife keeps a man as interested as watching the cricket game when Tendulkar is batting on 99. I won't speak much about this, as my experience in this field is the same as what Hansika Motwani has in Quantum Physics.
If one is not married i.e. the situation where I find myself now, the guy is as popular as the movie Dirty Picture. Courtesy my presence in a series of family gatherings, I have slowly realized that I have an unexplainable, invisble, unquantifiable, mysterious force of attraction in me that pulls the attention of 22 to 24 year old girl's parents (sometimes their daughters as well). This force of attraction is directly proportional to the product of my salary and square of number of years present in the foreign land and inversely proportional to the age, age taking the least value of 25. Behaving like no less than detectives, they watch my each and every move - the way I talk, the way I walk, and even the way I put my finger in the ears to take out the wax. They even go to my relatives with a common questionnaire, "is he a software engineer?", "does he own a house in Bangalore?", "does he stay with his parents?". I ensure that I portray myself as the most well mannered South Indian Brahmin boy ever born in the history of mankind, whenever I encounter those kind of species.
Cheers for being 26 year old!
