Yes I know it was sometime back in Oct and I don't even remember the date! Does that make me a bad wife? There were many ladies (my neighbors) who were celebrating it with much fanfare and were all decked up and sending messages on WhatsApp.. asking if anyone had seen the moon yet!? Don't you find it contradictory (I actually found it funny) that women who are well-versed with the latest technologies, still believe in such age old custom?
Seeing all the hullabaloo surrounding it my husband told me with a smirk on his face "Look at all those women.. doing so much for their husband!?, Why did not you do it?". And that irritated me and prompted me to ask him " Did you ever keep a fast for me?". Am I treading on land mines here!?
Isn't cooking, cleaning, washing, working and I am sure there are loads more that I have missed here enough to prove your love? Now do I also have to fast on top of all this!?
I know I must have irked a lot of pati-vrata women out there by now. But I really do not believe in this bourgeois mentality of fasting for a husbands long life. Yes women used to fast in the old days and they had strong reasons to..men used to goto war.
Yes men goto war even today and spending a day at the office is more bloody too than the good old days.
I am religious to an extent but do not believe in all of the rituals.
