Back up or get backed up...

Seems like a journal from an IT geek telling you the fringe benefits and moral obligation of Backing your data. Well not to solely disappoint you this post is a mere anachronism of my thoughts from this weekend. For those of you who seek for a point in the end of this blabber, I suggest you quit, cos lately speaking without a point and purpose has become more of a hobby for me which I thoroughly enjoy, so stop making that cynical face and get off my case.

Have you ever noticed how our society is finally getting along with the whole IT concept and outlook? The modern information age teaches us to keep backup of sensitive data to help us in time of crisis similar to our folks who still keep like 10 photocopies in separate file folders for “JUST IN CASE” moments which for in person I haven’t witnessed yet. Now what I wonder is that whether this critical concept from the burgeoning IT space applies to the ever so personal relationship space too? One of my friend just got out of a 6 year relationship, a thing he used to brag about and we used to envy. He termed it as LOVE, as for me I am not sure what it was. Point of the matter being does being true to someone really pays up in the longer run. Frivolous as it seems we all have seen a thing like this sometime in our lives either in first hand or as a passer by. Are relationships really getting that tough? The other day TOI published a very nice article on the present drift the poster boy Indian male is having towards the no hassle Love. According to it men my age have started to avoid getting into relationship to avoid interference to work or to shun them from the heart ache of a heart break. This means no more office romances and Barista dates phew!!! There goes my country’s economy. Jokes apart this is a pretty serious epidemic, when one never gets a return on his\her investments. Getting back to my friend, he was a pretty smooth player and had she not walked by, he still would have been going on those mindless charades of dates and movies without the prospect of settling down. Once he takes himself off the “MARKET” and give up the eternal search, his prime investor pulls out the invested fund and crashing comes down my pal’s scrip value. So if I were to evaluate this situation my friend turns out to be a dumb player who was foolish enough to believe that the female would stand up for him when the time arises or was he???

This brings me to this big moral dilemma… a girl always has an excuse to exit an agreement on the pretext of her family in turn signifying that she had a backup all this while but if the guy so as to even stays in touch with his “EX” he is termed as INFIDEL… well this doesn’t seem fair to me. Till the time we remain cautious we are termed to be emotionless freaks who are just in for the show and the moment we come near to the point where we start settling down suddenly the parental factor kicks in. I don’t want to sound like a misogynist pig all of a sudden and just to prove that I am not a sexist I believe the same goes for men walkers too. This has to be the most boring chain of thought I have had in ages yet it seems to bother me quite enough to write it down.

They say endurance and persistence are keys to make any relationship work, I wonder does anyone even know what it takes to be serious in relationship free from all variables… I obviously am totaly lost so I better put some whackiness back.... Why does life get so serious???