I am trying to marry my girlfriend and facing too many difficulties from both our parents. Even though they know the fact that we have been together for more than 7 years, it doesn’t matter before the fact that she is from another state.

Seriously?!

But I am not ready to give up on it, no matter what.

Now, let’s come to the main point…

What’s the old people’s problem?

And the simple answer is, that they don’t want “change”.

But they should understand the fact that change is the only constant. The world constantly keeps changing and they should adapt to it.

Society and the situation is not the same as they were a decade ago, things have changed, situations have changed, jobs have changed, and most importantly, people’s priorities have changed.

And elderly people in the Indian society will follow and accept the change in other aspects but relationships and marriage.

Why?

I literally don’t understand what’s their problem.

In fact, I tried asking multiple people who are against “love marriages” about why they don’t want youngsters to be married in another community and they literally have no answers. Almost everyone that I confronted told the same line “you should not marry anyone outside your caste because it’s not good”. That’s it.

And it’s not just about marriages

Try doing anything that no one has done or try choosing an unusual career path, and you will get the same reaction. After finishing college, I wanted to start an online business and I didn’t join any company for jobs. My parents and other old people in the family were kind of pissed off about why I didn’t join a job.

Why? Do they expect everyone to do the same thing?

How will society progress if we keep doing the same thing as our fathers did?

That’s not how it’s supposed to work, right?

I am sure when someone first invented clothes then people who wore leaves lashed out at them. They might have even been thrown out of society but they stood their ground and that’s the reason we are wearing clothes today, otherwise, we would still be wearing leaves.

So my whole point of writing this is, as long as something feels right, do it.

What say?