What’s the word’s worth?

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">The best part about parties is that anyone can talk to anyone. Because there is nothing much to say except a few empty lines here and there. The parties are usually so crowded and with everyone knowing everybody, you can barely stretch a conversation beyond and a ‘hi and oh, you look great.’ But there is a flip side to parties.Sometimes people can be obnoxious. Either they don’t realise what they are saying or they are just to insensitive to people who are going through difficult phases in their personal lives. Like if they know someone’s girlfriend is cheating on him, they don’t even know the person well enough but may just go and ask him, ‘so your girl is dating so and so?’ Well, now whoever gave them the right to get so personal with someone, only they know. <br />I was appalled about an incident I heard recently. This couple who are pretty popular in the party circuit, split. Now it’s not easy for any separated husband and wife to keep a straight face and bump into each other at parties. The emotional turbulence of seeing an ex-spouse is tormenting but what makes people even more nervous is the fact that certain people are watching gleefully and keeping an eye on them. So coming back to this couple, the husband fell in love with another girl. The wife was trying to move on and the first night she ventured out with some friends, she had a ‘well-wisher’ just come upto her and say ‘dahling are you ok?’ She was still struggling to say yes when he told her that the other woman told him her husband was really good in bed.� How insensitive really. <br />There are other times when people don’t think it can happen to them. So while they are still happily married, they borrow freely from sarcasm when introducing a man or woman who may have just broken up. They can simply introduce people with just their names but they go out of their way to call them someone’s ex -wife or ex- husband. Isn’t it common sense that while people can’t forget their past, they don’t want to be reminded about it time each time they meet someone new? <br />This is not all about couples alone. Girls who dare to party without a man on their arm, also face some tricky situations. Like a friend of mine once had a drunk guy proposition her by asking her when was the last time she had sex. If you’ve lost weight, chances are people may not notice or at least pretend they didn’t. But if you gain weight they will tell you that you look fat. I mean, who asked them that in the first place? If they see a bit of a paunch they just come and touch your stomach and ask ‘baby on the way?’ But then such is life first you get upset, then you become indifferent to rude comments and then if you are strong enough you can actually begin to get amused and laugh at what they are saying. They will never understand what you found so funny. <br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">simichandoke@indiatimes.com </span></div> </div>