Saturday, December 29, 2007
Mom's intuition
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
IT ONLY HAPPENS TO ME
IT ONLY HAPPENS TO ME
Sometimes you must have realized that the most inappropriate stuff, uncharacteristic of you only happens to you. But then again, the first time it happened, you would have smiled to yourself, dishonestly humble, consoling yourself by saying “C’mon cheer up, there’s always a first to everything, stuff like that do happen”. You would also have found comfort in the fact that probably stuff like that keeps happening to everyone.
So unmindful of this new development, you imagine that the next day you’ll be yourself again, the same brilliant, proud, sensible, logical and a whole lot of other adjectives that you love to attribute to yourself. But as days pass by, you are haunted, yet again by that very same stuff. You get frustrated this time and realize, “this can’t be happening with me. Why did this very same thing, uncharacteristic of me, happen to me twice?”
Then several problems arise. You are taken to questioning by your parents, your guardians, regarding this strange occurrence happening with you. Their fears multiply even without any fuel added. And then while you are analyzing, why such a thing is happening, it happens again. You use your logical part of the brain to figure it out. You try to think what you’re doing wrong. Although it maybe obvious, but at that age, the mind being so deceptive that it is, it doesn’t allow you to realize that certain things that you do are wrong. It shuts such thoughts away, keeping you confused. Also you are too proud to seek help from your parents. In the meanwhile, you realize that this strange trait of yours has become a habit. And then all of a sudden you become all philosophical and come to hasty conclusion that maybe this sort of a thing was destined to happen and come to accept it as a part of life. While your parents still show worried signs regarding their wards change, they fear the worst. They blame it on unwarranted activities, like doing drugs, TV, alcohol and all such stuff that they warn you on TV. But you, being at the point beyond irritation, realize its futile to even try to convince them. Hence the once beautiful relationship between you & your family becomes a bit strained. They keep unreasonable expectations on you all of a sudden, expecting you to make up for ‘unreasonable’ behavior.
Though your parents won’t throw you out they believe time will heal. You become still more philosophical and decide that I’ll give it my best shot no matter what the result. The output probably isn’t satisfactory, but there’s a difference. You realize that today is your 20th birthday, you are past your teens. You realize that you are happy despite not performing well. You realize your parents are smiling after a long time and you realize your boyfriend/girlfriend has started smiling again It took you 20 yrs to realize something simple. Maybe Rip Van Winkle wasn’t the only one who was sleeping.
….Hmmmm… you realize what did I do right this time? You can’t find out. But at twenty, I know it’s childish to be superstitious, but I attribute it to the fact that I’m no longer a teen, that’s why. I look at all the guys who were still assumedly ‘enjoying their teens’ and playing football. I noticed a flaw in their play. But they never realized and continue to marvel at their skills. It is then that it struck me; maybe I was like them, too ignorant, too proud, too humble to realize where I was wrong. I realized, I had always lied to my conscience and it kept hurting me all the time. I thought I knew everything, but I didn’t. I realized all that I did wrong, never did I find out what I did right. Maybe another 20 yrs in my life I will.