Age? Am I Cheese or Wine?

“You know his wife is so young that when they walk together she looks like his daughter,” commented a colleague of mine. “How does it matter as long as they don’t have a problem?” pat came my response. A reaction which later stirred many debates raised many eyebrows on my sense of judgement.
I fail to understand the big fuss about the wide age gap and our reluctance to accept. What is it that such a couple is incapable of doing compared to others with less numbers between them? Are they incapable to make love or fight? Strangely this is a very Indianised take on relationships. A criteria where the woman should be younger than her man and more so the man shouldn’t be older by years to her. And if the calculations don’t match up to the set norms, you run the risk of being a threat to our culture.
A recent case of a famous politician being with a journalist of much lesser age is a classic case still afresh in the minds. He became a laughing stock and many a joke was floated on social media over his relationship. The less feeble hearts would succumb and sacrifice their happiness. The brave ones, like this politician, accepted and ignored the hullabaloo over his affair.
Get a life, people. If two people are happy despite everything, who are we to make life unhappy for them? Let’s not forget that every day such couple do fight the fear of losing a partner to old age and being left all by themselves at the end. So who are we to scream, “See, how old he looks with her.”
And that isn’t all. If the woman is older, we never shy away from saying, “see he is with an aunty.” Life and love is certainly not all maths. So why are these calculations so important?
India is going places and Indians are making their presence felt all across the globe. This presence won’t leave a mark if we continue to live with past mindsets. It is time to change. Time to live with and let others live too.
My apologies for the preachy tone, but just couldn’t help viewing the ghastly reaction of educated India and encroachment on personal lives. Folks, if your life doesn’t hold much interest to you, then, maybe do something about it. Do whatever but don’t bring volcanoes in other’s lives.
And next time, when you open your mouth. Think, what would you have done if the love of your life was thrice your age?


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