Are Indian blessings truly a curse in disguise

The other day when I had wished one of my friends on his birthday, he happened to ask for a blessing. Thats when it struck me whether our Indian context of blessing a human being that may he live for a one hundred year or something we bless a married women that may she have hundred children, are all nothing but ridiculous ones. Imagine oneself living for 100 years, the family bearing the brunt of the blessing, covering up his/ her medical bills, infact even the person finding it difficult to survive because he would have inherited several old age diseases by then. It is better then to die young; aatleast one doesnot have to listen to the regular abuses from the family memebers.

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