Wedding Circus!

Yahoooo! My cousin's wedding is coming up next month and am planning for a big vacation.. By big I mean 5 days, thats 24*5 =120 hours of pure fun.. away from dumb work, stupid meetings and the crap called coding! I jus cant wait.. I am not sure if I will be this happy and look forward to my own wedding.. You can see how badly I need a break.. again nothing like, am the busiest person in my office or all that I do in the week days is work, work and work.. But still, to get out of the routine schedules.. thts seriously something!

The best part is that my cousin's is gonna be a love marriage and she is getting married after quite a bit of struggle and clashes with the household. Well.. I come from a very orthodox and conventional background, where you know, love marriages are considered as some sort of a crime.. I remember the day when my sis declared that she had found the guy of her life.. All the family members were called to discuss and there was such a lot of confusion, tears and screams in the household that any stranger passing by would have thought that somebody died and we were mourning. Its only during such ocassions that I sometimes wonder if my relatives and even parents for that matter are really educated or not..
What is the point if you are cannot even choose the guy you wanna live your life with.. I can accept that your parents are against the whole stuff, if you are studying in eighth standard and you wanna run away with a lorry driver. But when u are independant and old enough to understand what is right and wrong, your parents protesting is meaningless.. I have heard people say that, in case an arranged marriage flops, you can atleast go back to ur parents.. But such a thing is not possible with love marriages.. But if you cannot save ur marriage and are not ready for any kinda adjustments and wanna live a life for yourself, why marry in the first place?.. If a marriage flops, only the individuals should be held responsible.. Not the category which the marriage belongs to.. And even if a love marriage fails, you can atleast be happy that after all it was your decision.. But do our educated parents accept all this.. no... India is independant.. Are we?