Self Discovery

Wanted a break from mundane life. So called up gal pals and being an easy day yesterday, we caught up last evening. Purple being the colour of the season, VBF (extremely fashion conscious) was in a smart lavender / black combo. As she’s the only one amongst others who’s obsession with the likes of Vogue, Elle is on the borderline of insanity, she’s our default guide to fashion.

I try to be dressed smartly, but as am not too obsessed with it - keep fluctuating between smart to mediocre. While VBF is top scorer & AS the worst (try wearing a yellow salwar & multicoloured short kurti with red dupatta and jhumkis in a bank and you are the odd one out) we others float in the middle.

So it was one funky group that spent quality time for greater part of the evening. Talks veered between marriage (all of us single and routinely walk down the road of “meet the guy”, “beta when do you plan to settle down?”, “lemme introduce you to this guy”), fashion, HR (what do HR guys actually do??), office gossip and finally money. As I wanted to clean up my financial mess started a conversation on current fav topic – MONEY!

Between the seven of us two of my pals are completely on tops. Name it and they have it…..insurance, MFs, pension plans and the works. Okay it helps that they work for India’s best private banks & MF house respectively. Free knowledge real time, what more to ask? While we are not exactly ignorant we have never been too serious about investments/ savings / retirement plans ( the attitude is, “retirement? But I have so many years of work left!”).

While our discussion was on, we came to a surprising finding……all of us are subconsciously dependent on parents or hope to get married and think the future will be secured! Surprising in today’s world that we girls in late twenties to mid thirties are actually not securing our own future but awaiting outside help! Hmmmm food for thought………………..