age is just a number

i met up with a good friend, two weeks back. the friend has found a gf. good for him. i always got this aura from him that he is lonely. glad that he has someone for company. as conversation flows, he commented that the parents are a little opposing towards this relationship.

my first reaction: why? oh, the girl is a few years his senior. hmm. but it is not that much really. i guess the parents are annoyed. i can see where the parents are coming from. they might think that they girl is at the age suitable for marriage while their son has only started working for a year. i feel like telling the parents, "do you know how hard it is to find one person you like nowadays?" the parents mentioned any girl will do as long as she is local (malaysian) and younger than him. the fact that the girl breaks the two rules makes them hard to accept. i wonder why they object to begin with. my friend used to have a gf who is younger and local and they objected. now he found another, still object. haih... life... life... it is hard to please everyone.

luckily my friend is standing on the positive side. he believes that the parents will eventually accept her as she is. i have yet to see her but to me, it doesn't matter. as long as my friend is happy. that's all that matters. she will be the one walking the rest of his life. the least they can do is give their blessings.

i wish him all the best and the little devil in me hopes that he achieves success because i think being defiant in love and obtaining acceptance in the end is so much more romantic than the plain old vanilla, non-challenging relationship.

wish him the best of luck, and partially myself too in finding one.

age is just a number, really.