Mixed feelings (biased towards the negative)

Marriage might be a very happy occassion for family, friends, relatives etc. but it is as fun for the people getting married?
Here is a potential groom perspective
1. Putting salt in the hostel mess drinking water tank
2. Waking up all night pretending to study when you actually looked forward to was the lovely plain dosa and chutney breakfast in the mess
3. Chatting with friends and recording the same on tapes only to send it to the girls' hostel to let your special friend know what it's like in a boys' hostel
4. Running out of money during the end of a semester and making do with a 5 rs rice served with plain gravy free of cost
5. Failing in 4 exams in one semester and clearing all of those subjects in the next semester along with scoring a distinction in the regular ones
6. Calling up girls' hostel late at night and pretending to be a handsome smart stranger guy
7. Doing an MBA in Goa... GOA!!! for God's sake
8. Making the most intelligent girl in the campus fall in love with you
9. Spending 4 months of the MBA programme in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Luxembour etc... All those places!!! for God's sake
10. Sipping beer... and rum and whisky and vodka and whatever a 12rs/peg cost can get you by the side of the Mandovi river in a full moon light
11. Going back to the same place again and sipping beer... and rum and whisky and vodka and whatever 12rs can get you
12. And when you are fed up of that (fed up of what???) going to the beach getting knee deep in waters and sipping beer... and rum and..... and this at 1 AM at night
13. After all of this getting a great job in a TATA company with a nice salary
14. Living in the baap of all Indian cities - Mumbai...
15. Going on an official trip to Bangkok and doing what people do in Bangkok (and Pattaya ;)
16. Staying at a sexy flat in Mumbai with a fridge, TV and friends...
17. Getting beer pints to flat, inviting friends over, filling the entire living room with empty beer bottles
18. Not sleeping after all that fun and going for a breakfast of Nalli Nahari in Mohammad Ali Road at 4 am
19. Meeting an old college friend at 8 PM in Leopold's in Colaba and carrying on the party till 7 AM next morning with breakfast
20. All the while playing part launching new products, selling them in the market, designing ad campaigns, frequent flying across the country...

So, in a nutshell life has been the stuff dreams are made of .. am more than happily giving up all of that by getting married with a hope that the sacrifice is worth it- fortunately or unfortunately I won't be the only person ensuring it.