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You can cook up something interesting at any age!
and yet afraid of it, dancing around the edges relationship chase. Ah, but the fun is in the
of might-have-beens, haunting chatrooms and chase, I long to tell them. Except that they’ll
social media sites. probably scoff at this aunty giving them gyaan.
Of course, the drawback with chatting is that Somewhere in the social media maze, a chap
there is a gap between those of us who use talks about a dating attempt and mentions being
complete sentences and those who resort to an “old guy”. He doesn’t seem that old, so out
shorthand, often unnecessary and sometimes of curiosity I message to ask him his age. He
confusing. I know someone in Mumbai who was replies “33” and I laugh, both to myself and in the
chatting with a woman who said “m in krla”. chat. “I’ll be 34 in a couple of months,” he says
He was thrilled, as he lives in Ghatkopar and he helpfully.
thought she said “Kurla”. When he suggested Hell, maybe we seniors are the real young ones,
meeting, she said she meant the state, Kerala. after all, I think, and begin Googling “dating sites
Poor guy felt as if he had bitten into a krla for seniors”. Never say die!
(karela).

Home alone
It is indeed, at times, bitter – the feeling of
loneliness and needing a companion. At the
same time, taking that step into a relationship is
such a big move that people increasingly prefer
a solo life. One of the newspapers, in the run-up
to Valentine’s Day, featured such singletons-by-
choice. What is sad is that they’re all young. One
young woman said she is 23 and feels jaded. I
don’t know whether to laugh or despair. At 23, my
life was just beginning!
Not just in print, online too I see 20-and-30-
somethings talking about being tired of the For golden oldies, every cloud has a silver lining
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