Rings and Bands

Met my college buddies over beer a few days back. As usual it was an amazing session full of soul searching and exchanging ideas about everything - from work to Common wealth games to technology to women (mostly women actually). Its kinda strange how the word "girl" has been replaced by "woman" in my dictionary . I guess this change comes with age and maturity (though I am not sure if I have become more mature now :)). I have been blessed with the best bunch of people I can call friends . I have known most of them for more than a decade now and some of them at my recent work place. Some of them are already married , some of them are nearly there ( engaged , rokafied and all ) and some of them (including me) are looking forward to get bitten by this "Happily Ever After" bug. After a couple of beers I realized that all of us on that table are hopeless romantics waiting for that one perfect "woman" to come along and light our dark and dull utterly monotonous lives. I couldnt help look back in time and see when did this happen to me. I have always been happy go lucky kinda person who wanted to live in the present and didnt give a fuck about the future. What made me change into this guy who is now longing for a simple yet happy future with someone who he can call his "Soulmate" . Is the reason my failed relationship of many years ? or Is it because of the constantly building peer pressure of all my friends and acquiantances getting married ? .... I guess the reason is something very different and very basic... No one wants to be alone...absolutely no one..... I am happy for my friends who have made their realtionships work and have married or are getting married and for my friends who met their soulmates few months before getting married. Now the question that pops in my head is - how are rest of us single lads gonna go down : The arranged way... The arraged love way... or the "Fight till I die" way.