For the benefit of those who don't know about Thiruvadhirai - It is that day in the year south indian women fast and offer special prayers to get the same husband for their seven lives to come (though they might already be in their 7th).
To insist on its importance and in a desperate attempt to instil the culture and the custom into her renegade daughter, my mom would tell the same short story every year. Mytholgy has it that 'Even when her son was lying dead, one devoted wife, rolled him up in a mat, put him in the attic and completed her 'thiruvadhirai' penance before grieving over her dead son. And every year, I would ask her the same question - 'Mom, wouldn't you be bored with the same husband? - You need not switch husbands in the same life, but, come on, you should have some variety across lives..'
I am into my 3rd year of following the penance to a T and NOW it dawns on me.... I am also praying for the same husband for all my subsequent lives..
After putting in a lifetime of effort training one bloke, you better have an advantage in the subsequent lives. Why would you even think of training another one? Who wants variety... man, I choose sanity.
But this, being the technology age, we do have an advantage... We could pray for an upgraded version of the same husband.. I love husband 1.0, but in my next life, please add a kitchen helper service pack and probably an enhanced calendar feature(which remembers birthdays and anniversaries). It will be great to have a firewall which I could customize to block access to people(read girls) I don't like. Dear Lord, one more important add on. Please install some sophisticated sensors, (Pranav Mistry has already de-mystified sixth sense, and Murugados is working on the seventh), say series 10.0, which will sense what is running on my head. Yes, Sankar has created a Robo like this...but we are talking about a human with all the flaws of current version and user-friendliness(you know, like a Microsoft upgrade)
So God, offering you unbroken adai-butter, kali (South Indian delicacies) and my sincere prayers to upgrade my Husband 1.0 to 'Be What's Next'!
