Acharya Prashant responds to a 30-year-old housewife who regrets being forced into marriage and giving up her education. He explains that the question of why we marry is not separate from our life; given the way we are, we will inevitably have to get married. He uses an analogy of a drunkard who stumbles along a street, bumps into things, and eventually falls into a drain. If the drunkard asks why he fell at that specific moment, the answer is that the fall was not an isolated event but a result of his entire intoxicated state. Similarly, humanity is like that drunkard, and life is the path. Unfortunate events, like a forced marriage, are consequences of living in a state of unconsciousness. This state of unconsciousness, the speaker clarifies, is not unique to one person but is the condition of all of humanity. We are all living a life of unawareness, not knowing the real reasons behind our actions. We eat, drink, and live like that drunkard. The problem is not just marriage but everything that happens before and after it, as it is all done without consciousness. He further illustrates this with another analogy: our life is like a book where every page is poisonous, and we are compelled to follow its instructions. This "book of life" is written by the three Gunas of Prakriti (nature) long before we are born. This book, which can also be called Avidya (ignorance) or Maya (illusion), dictates our every action, from birth and education to relationships. We are slaves to this book, even when we mistakenly believe we are making our own free choices. Acharya Prashant states that freedom from this pre-written script is possible but requires a painful struggle to tear oneself away from it, a process that involves shedding blood, as no freedom comes without a price. He advises the questioner to stop blaming a single past event or her family, as this only provides comfort to the ego by creating a sense of victimhood. Instead, she should recognize that her entire life has been a form of slavery to this system. The past cannot be changed, so the crucial question is whether she is free from that intoxication and that book *now*. The doer is intoxicated, so all actions—marrying or divorcing, studying or not—are done in the same state of unconsciousness. He encourages her to look at her life today and, if she truly loves studying, to pursue it now, despite the difficulties, because her current life is also difficult.