Wedding Invitations!

"Hey Abhishek,
The time for the invite has dawned upon us - so here goes : It gives me great pleasure to invite you to my wedding reception on the XXth of December, 2007 in ABC.
It would be great if you could make it. Please consider this a personal invitation and I do look forward to seeing you at the wedding.
Regards,"

When you approach the top of the normal curve of your life ( I mean 25 years for the statistically illiterate), every now or then, you will get these mails! I have mixed emotions when the sender is a male(lucky guy, poor chap, gaya saala!), and confused emotions when the sender is a female.
Mixed and confused might sound same, they are not! With a guy, it depends on : love or arranged, lass or no-class, by chance or by choice. So it gives to a decision tree with varying probabilities( I had my Risk Management paper today and you have not so I will simplify it further). It is like the magician's hat, you don't know what he is going to pull out, you see and react! I am a nice guy, nicer to married couples with pretty ladies and nicest to couples with arm-candy girlfriends.(Now that it is my only chance to be seen in company of any pretty gal is a different story altogether). And hence, mixed bag emotions!

Confused: You cant help feeling happy for people when they are getting married! That is the natural reaction but then, it adds to my confusion! Along with the mail there is also this attached pdf with the details of the wedding and I wish it had my name and not the other guy's!
So here comes the sadness part! You look back on all the coffee cups that you left behind along the last few years, of the last desks of the class and those arbit conversations, of the moments when you tried to catch attention, and of those when you seeked none!
The coffee cups in savvy cafes will be replaced by tea in the drawing room, those "If I was not in a relationship, I would have asked you out"- fling will give way to "XYZ is a lucky guy to have you", "You are looking gorgeous/hot tonight" to " you are looking pretty" a casual wink to a polite hello, things will never be the same again!
No matter what people say, life is never the same after marriage and everyone around you will have to make adjustments if you are getting married. Friends wont make sly remarks in front of you and you will wonder what happened to their sense of humor!
Now I understand why they call it an institution and not a relationship!

And you would think I would learn when this has happened to me once! Ha! This is some 7th such mail and there I go again!
My life has the Markovian property! (Click on the link only if you have nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing else to do. Don't blame me!)