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Monday, February 19, 2007

My married Friends

Dont blame me for not blogging too often. There is this new job I have found- weddings! Yes, weddings in Uganda have become a job! my blogging time has been taken up by wedding meetings, bridal showers, real weddings. I love doing this, doing it for my friends. I mean thats what friends are for, isnt it. I actually love being in the mix, preparing and all, but I hate it when my married friends, for whom I sacrificed my time, and little money start acting wierd.

All of a sudden, its nolonger I but we. I cant make it, we are going to see some friend of ours....

I am sorry I couldnt give you a gift on your birthday, we are building.... ( she is not working, so I will understand about the gift, but about the building?)

O.k, they are nolonger one but two ( or is it nolonger two but one) but why throw out your friends?

My married friends feel sorry for me! actually pity me. They remind that I need a man every time I am with them! They even go an extra mile to try and hook me up with their husband's unmarried friends! Sometimes I think they are insecure. They try to get me out of the way, coz they think being single, I am out to grab their men! yet I feel I am supposed to feel sorry for them. I mean, we are young and they are married, committed for life! I want to believe that at 23 (feel free to add or subtract 3), I should be free as a bird! But they are nolonger available for plot, they have some washing to do at home! how interesting. they cannot go for a party unless he is going! how convinient! So if the husband is going, and I am going with them as a friend, we shall be three, how interesting!

I go to visit my married friends, I mean, friends are friends forever. They feel obliged to drop me home afterwards, but then they are not the ones to drop me, he has to..., because he is the one with the car, and he goes cursing about the traffic jam, what an inconvinience!

My married friends bore me, these days, they cannot sustain an interesting chat. It is always, "me, John Bosco does this..., Me, my husband is like this, us, we are doing this..." and suddenly he becomes the centre of their lives... I mean we are supposed to be looking for jobs, planning for the future, applying for scholarships, sending eachother mail, going for girls nights out, enjoying our youth.

I cant throw my married friends out though, I am not yet married! And I am not sour graping, and one day I might sell out, join the enemy, the married friends!

7 Comments:

Blogger crys said...

u know, u could just get married and get it all off your shoulders. but then again, u need to have more fun with the roomies. and besides, i dont want u to do anything i wouldnt do; including getting married at the tender age of 23! (plus and minus 3. actually, plus 3 is not that bad.)

7:06 AM  
Blogger ~ScotchBiscuits~ said...

strange. I am lacking in the ownership of married friends.
(crys you better not..)
John Bosco...LOL! I haven't heard that in a while now I can't remember what else I read in between fighting the giggles at the thought of a non fictional John Bosco. going to reread.

2:54 PM  
Blogger Iwaya said...

doesn't the same thing happen when people fall in love? abandon their friends?

7:22 AM  
Blogger Klara said...

This was so hilarious! Movin from "I" to "We". How things change!! Then ''my husband this, My Husband that" So boring!

2:22 AM  
Blogger Sue said...

I gett you real good. I don't think it's a good idea to throw out your friends just coz you're married...
Kwanza I dont think marriage is fair at all.. He can go to a party with his friends and without you, but you aint allowed to go partying without him with your friends...
:.Just Sue.:

2:37 AM  
Blogger Iyer Seeta said...

hey so true...i can really identify with u..i have frnds who are married or getting married..the conversation starts and ends with their hubby or fiancee's name...

5:48 AM  
Blogger Iyer Seeta said...

hey u are absolutely spot on..i too have frnds who are hooked up..their sentences and days start with what their partners are doing..i mean life with them is not fun anymore...its been ages since i have gone out with any of my frnd..i miss that !!

5:49 AM  

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