When I was a kid, elders and their maturity used to allure me to the core. I mean, come on, elders were charming and so was everything about them. My greedy eyes were always transfixed on their spectacles, wallets, bags and even on the mask of graveness that covered their face. Their life seemed sublime and royal. They didn't have to go to school or do homework or solve blood sucking maths sums (No offence, but I seriously didn't find any use of Laplace Theorem in my daily life even once; so all of you who are progenies of Ramanujanan-‘ we are good without maths’, okay?)
Somehow I liked gossip aunties and their
endless hours of gossiping too. The subject of their gossiping was always
unknown but I assumed that they are adults and they would be talking about
something grave and serious.
I
wanted to become an adult as soon as possible. When kids of my age were busy
with cartoons, cocoa milk and loud music, I was appreciating news channels,
coffee and gazals. My mother never received any complaint about my fighting
with other kids because I found fighting ‘juvenile and immature’. I used to
look at children of my age with disgust and think, ‘one day I’ll get older and
days of my happiness will come’.
But as it is said, ‘life is dynamic and so
are thoughts and desires’.
Twelve
years later, I’m an adult who crossed teenage three years back and surprisingly
( or is it surprising really?) my idea of happiness just got reversed. Now I
think there is something seriously wrong with me; like my biological clock is
ticking in anticlockwise direction or so. Now I like cocoa milk, cartoons and
hip-hops better than coffee, news channels and gazals respectively. I started
having silly fights with friends on silly matters like 'ohh-you-made-fun-of-me-you-are-dead-to-me' or 'you-wont-let-me-to-ride-your-bike-go-to-hell'. I mess up with persons easily and
then I explain myself to them as- Hey! I’m just 22, how can you expect me to
act mature?
Yeah, I know I’m contradicting statements made
by 10-year-old-me, but hey! People change, okay? ( I have every possible excuse
for my callousness).
But
strangely since many days I’m hearing gossips aunties’ enchanted gossips even
more loudly. What they are talking about? And why they are looking at me?
Oh my God! Now it’s making sense to me! Since
all these years gossip aunties were gossiping about persons like me who don’t
follow ideal sequences of biological clock. But then again, who the hell even
cares? Keep enjoying aunties I’m gonna provide you so much to gossip about in
future. It's my life and life is about change.
And
for present me, what’s next? cartoons? positive! Hallelujah!
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