Finding Mr Right©

If you are a female, then after a particular chronological age you are beset by the usual :"Why aren't you married yet?"

It begins as little hesitant hints."Maybe in a year or two we will be seeing you there" at a friend or a classmate's wedding.
Then a more brazen "So what are your plans"
And of course there is the advice, doled out liberally"It is very important, you know to get settled( here a meaningful look- wherein the speaker is possibly conjuring up you blissfully fulfilling your conjugal duties)at the right time. Otherwise you do not have much of a choice left(buy early enough in a Sale my dear, you have to make do with leftovers otherwise)" Again you have visions of fighting your way to get a good bargain in the shape of the Right Catch.
All very bearable if you the speaker is someone old doddering and ancient. After all they do not know any better- or do they!It is easy to blame the generation gap.

Woman after woman you played dolls with, shared notes with, studied with, fell in love with Steve Waugh with suddenly goes on the getting-settled mode. Also the one kid in the arms and another on the way mode.
All perfectly fine. Its their life,their choices.
And they start doing oh-so-very-well for themselves( or rather is the husband who is doing well- but then, as the ardhangini, she is responsible for the chappies successes- she now has a new Accord, is settled/settling in Canada, owns a bungalow.. has borne a son to carry on the family name.. never mind she is the little hey-you who drapes her head daintily and never whispers more than "jee" when she fetches the newspaper, the slippers, the ashtray)
Well the point is she is settled, does not have to bother about useless things like a career and a social life and occasional oglers thrown in the shape of superiors, the guy at the bus stop and the landlord's son.

So you struggle with your Income tax returns and the problems of making both ends fruit( you are on your umpteenth diet) and occasionally catch up with a Neha, who though homely and "suitable" is single too.
Your friend- as she has always been.She whole heartedly supports you- most possibly because of the Pizza hut lunch(sponsored by you) thrown in when she is weary of home ranting ( "25 years old and no man to marry her as yet, she is dark. Its all our previous lives sins catching up") and you love the whole hearted support "must become an individual, not a mere Mrs someone( your best pupil, repeating all that has been diligently drummed into her by you..).
She is your buffer, you her escape- perfect symbiosis, if anything was.

Then Neha gets married."Su-u-u-u-ch a good catch, worth waiting for"
And you get a coy :"So lets find Mr Right for you"out of her

And its suddenly, "Welcome to the real world"

You wonder, how would she know, since the inside of a cooking pot must look the same whether it be Almora or Alabama, Ballia or Baltimore.

And Find Mr Right
Difficult, difficult very difficult.

A single Mr Right. Woman are you mad? Has not corporate experience taught you that with the current job scenario and present human employability rates( I know this is Global business gyaan- but an MBA must give that!)the policy of employment should be shortlisting, interview process, internship, and final employment. And taking into account the attrition rate, the recruitment process should be continuous as well.

So from Mr Right you view possibilities of Mr Almost Right( but then almost is not quite), or Mr Nearly( again that little niggling 1% of doubt) Right.. or Mr Seems Right-( whom he seems right to is the problem, to you then he is not quite right for all else, to others, then he may not seem right to all- after all he can seem right to a few all the time, to all some of the time and if he does seem right to all all of the time- it would be rare- the extinct species)
Mr Must be Right comes in too- he has everything going for him. Mostly a big car. But it is also going going gone( and if he is not everyone begins to wonder, whether the suavity is effeteness and the best friend really the boy friend)- as is the charm- after awhile).Mr Can be made Right( with plastic surgery, a finishing school, a bomb)is part of the consideration set. Mr Quite Right( he with the car, the fat salary, the big house, is quite anything else but not right- or so you feel) But all these are the easier species to deal with..
Tough are the Mr I am Right, Mr I am Always Right( jerky brother of the first).

And poor you- looking right and left through them.
Maybe if Mr right is a nice guy, chances are he got left behind( nice guys finish last- you did not know he existed, and he was too nice to let you know)

Mark my words woman, you are better off stuck to Mr Wrong. It would be far more appropriate to find two Mr Wrongs- after all two wrongs do make a right!