Firstly I was best man at my cousins wedding - which means nearly two weeks of drinking, dancing to bhangra, family time, some unwanted bonding with distant relatives, getting dressed up and making sure the groom don't do a runner. It was really was an eventful couples of weeks and Indian Sikh weddings are always a real occasion, as amongst all the parties we have some really fun traditions and religious elements that make me proud to be Indian and Sikh. You feel a part of something and an event like that highlights how family and more so friends (as some family are just plain difficult) nowadays can really make your day.
The day after the wedding I started my new job (with a hangover may I add) and it is going steady but ok. It is a brilliant company and the magazine industry is a step in the right direction. I have been living London life a bit, dinners, drinks, events so the social side is good (it is a mission getting home though as I am one of them commuters that never gets a seat on the train - the joys of the underground). So the job has perks but sales is hard - I will keep plugging away till I get that dream job (which I am still figuring out what that would be :/ ).
Then my sister had a baby and wow like obviously I was happy who wouldn't be, I was a mamma (uncle) for the first time but when I saw my beautiful niece I just started crying (ok not crying more watery eyes) and out of my family I'm the least open with my feelings, so it was surprise. It is amazing how one little baby can captivate grown adults into silence, it really was a moment when life just stopped in appreciation.
Lastly I had another wedding to attend on the weekend and when your single and in your twenties you are in danger of being set up, as a wedding turns more into a matchmaking event but I didn't mind so much this time. Maybe because I am ready, not for marriage but just for that next step and I saw a few girls I thought ok yeah I would like to get know you. But here comes the problem, do I start the dating process through my parents and say yeah I liked the hot girl in the blue suit, it is a risky route that comes with pressure and probably an engagement by xmas (bear in mind you cannot chat to a girl at a wedding that is not related without someone clocking and I don't know her name so cant use social media) so if I want to get the know the girl it seems like the only way at the moment. Only time will tell if this will develop into an arranged marriage... but I am enjoying being busy for once, its what a twenty something should be doing, being busy making a life.
