ǝƃɐıɹɹɐɯ oʇ spɐǝן ʎןuo ʇɥƃıɐɹʇs ƃuıʞuıɥʇ

Three decades and one year of solitary existence demands a good explanation.


I have a descent job, descent looks, can talk sweet and reasonably committed to a cause. Still I am unmarried. So, I thought this needs an explanation.

Several ancient European cultures had fancy punishments for people who opted to remain unmarried, though, this didn't extend to priests. They couldn't leave a will (reasonable), or hold a public office (Atal Behari would never be PM) or appear as a witness at a trial. (hmm ..) Ancient Rome levied more tax on the unmarried. So, does modern night clubs in my city. Less if you have a partner, more if alone. May be civilizations were driven by the zeal to increase superiority via headcount.

Women of my city have a different explanation for the love marks of my celibacy. Sometime back I was accused by couple of my female colleagues that I ignored them at a public place. And that, I was accompanied by another man at that time. Hence, they seemed to conclude that I am different ! A few decades back, they would have labeled me arrogant. Courtesy modern openness, that is not fashionable anymore.

I ask them to focus on the title of this post now. The text is written upside down without using any images. How ? English characters have been substituted by Latin ones, wherever needed. For e.g. 'ƃ' replacing 'g'. Might have been the digit 6 as well. So, please stretch your imagination. At that moment, after a few drinks and junk food, I was searching for a washroom. And it was a pretty serious search. Thats why I didn't have the luxury of breaking into an elaborate conversation. A little bit of spiritual explanation here wouldn't do bad. I do not search truth in beauty but beauty in truth. Which is even a more serious search.

However, I do not hold that futile search guilty of not returning any results. Life's certain circumstances have forced me to focus my time, energy and money on things other than marriage. Like my mother's treatment, a long standing property dispute and an unexpected turn of events when I had almost converged on the search result. It is this simple. The script of my life has already been composed by the almighty and this is what he (or she) had designed.

This was not an advertisement of my bachelor life, neither a mating call for the eligible spinster. Only a word of wisdom, that has been passed to me by my teachers. Please, please, please. Do not jump to a conclusion, arrive at them.

The search result will always be sweet.