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Of Weddings and Their Anniversaries

https://www.facebook.com/sangi.shankar/posts/10214778902962911 Of Weddings and Their Anniversaries: "Celebrating with the love of my life. Here's to life-long true love. My hearts flutter every-time I see you." These words don't speak to me anymore as I celebrate today my 16th wedding anniversary. 16 years back I got married without much of an idea as to what exactly it was that I was getting into. Life-long companionship & security were probably the top logical reasons. And of course heady, Shahrukh Khan types romance and love pulled me too as I have just 22 yrs. But now after 16 years, I think I have a much better idea of what it is. Or at least I can somewhat claim to. And in this much better idea of what marriage is, a big portion is also a better idea of what is not. And top 2 things that figure in that list are the words " love" and "happiness". These 2 are the most over-rated words in the English language. We are misled fro...