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Confusion confounded

As I juggle my professional and personal life with a highly active invlovement in the Buddhist organisation, Bharat Soka Gakkai, there are some issues I get to observe in the youth of today. One of the main ones (which in all honesty I myself have been struggling with) is how to get clarity in CHOOSING the right life partner. Choosing here in CAPS since for the longest time, we followed the simple arranged marriage system. With youth of our generation though, arranged marriage (even in its new hybrid avtaar) just seems to add to the confusion. There are so many instances of people I come accross who are involved with somebody in their lives but things dont seem to work. General confusion. And the million dollar question: "Is this person right for me?" And so this latest muse: how does one know if a person is right for him or her? Come to think of it, there was a time when the world was a very small place. One's exposure to people outside of one's family was restricted...