Back to the Basics

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(PS: I = WE as and where required)


I was driving to office in the morning and on the
road or rather the colony’s “gully”, I overheard a
girl talking to her mother about her coming at
least third in her class was imminent.


Nostalgic, I smiled and moved on. Somehow I
couldn’t get the thing out of my head and the
sweet memories of my school days kept coming to
me. In a job now and having completed more than 23
years of my life, the new Pepsi ad sounds so true
to me. I can’t be a kid again.


I have grown up and left behind me the regular
games in the park, the innocence of my being, the
truth of my existence, the numerous dreams I
thought I’d fulfill when I grow up and the most
important; the reason behind my happiness  being
absence of nothing to frown about.


I have grown up, people say I have matured and
become more civilised, I am not the mischievous
trouble monger now, I have learnt to be a
society’s person and yeah they are true, this all
comes naturally with age (maybe :P ).


I have now bigger things to worry about, my
concerns are more than just the “its raining
today, how will I play.” I am worried about my
career, my being, my looks, my social strata but I
have lost something very essential.


I have lost my dreams. It is all reality now for
me and I cannot escape that no matter how much I
want to. I have to live in what is and not what
can be. The only adventures left for me are the
adventure sports which I find too risky. My all
happiness lies with the amount of bank balance and
the luxury I can afford. The road side stall is no
longer the best place to eat because suddenly it
has become so unhygienic. I can’t “khujlao” myself
because that is not allowed. I can’t pull my lose
pants up because that’s so not acceptable. I can’t
sit with my legs open because that might give a
wrong signal. And the most disastrous, I have to
smile through it all and not give a reply back
just because I am supposed to bear it all.


I have lost the meaning which I grew up with; I
have become what time made me into and not what I
wanted to be. I am truly what they call as a
puppet.


I can’t do things because that is not supposed to
be done because that is not defined as civilised
in this allegedly civilised society. I have in
short lost my existence and become a part of the
crowd; something I never wanted to be.


As had been mentioned; these are situations almost
each and every one of us faces every day.


Question yourself just once:


Are you really happy?


Was this what you imagined your life to be?


Are you really what you really are?


Are you being true to yourself?





All this and a lot more and we ask kids to grow
up!

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