Social Faux Pas

It's officially spring fever or mating season and people are getting engaged left and right, it's kinda getting repetitive, everyone's stealing each others lightning! As soon as I heard the news of one of my friends getting engaged, I thought "aww ya7laail..." and I couldn't even continue that thought..another newsflash! I hear of more girls getting checked off the bachelorette list! Congrats to all who've jumped on the newly-engaged bandwagon, they're on the road of no return! Unless any of them decide to break off the engagement, God forbid!

Will someone enlighten me? Why is it such a big of a deal to consider the engagement to be as important as the marriage itself? Yes, I may seem cynical but isn't it supposed to be the trial phase where things are actually getting serious and that in itself is a slap from mother reality? It's more of a 'Yes I've nabbed you now and it's set in stone so there's no going back, sucka' ... Yes, I'm having allergic reactions to creatures with higher levels of testosterone (FYI: women have that too) and no I'm not bitter, I need to vent and this is the topic at hand.

So, engagements? Yes, no, maybe? Short ones, long ones? Let the first few months of marriage act as 'the' engagement, since engagements are a one way street to marriage anyway? Getting my drift?

I'm not trying to rationalize it since it can be analyzed in SO many different ways by many people, but in my honest opinion (and that may differ depending on my mood), engagements are just a subtle way of saying "Even though you're taken, you have to enjoy these last moments of singleness with a grain of salt because they ain't ever coming back, and do remember that you can break all of this off whenever you want to but you might as well commit suicide by cutting your wrists with a butter knife"

Oh, and something else I've always wondered about, do guys even CARE about engagements? I think not to the extent of their female counterparts! They could not care less, it's just a matter of time to them because they are realistic! It's just another happy day for them, like getting a raise or promotion, it's not the day that will change his life forever and ever (ignorange is bliss and equally essential in this case)! Can you imagine a guy sitting with his friends acting all giddy and shy when talking about his engagement?

That would be the day.