No, this is not about Genes..! I mean this is not about biology.. This is something else :p , sorry to disappoint you.! :p
Yes, so, once upon a time, this happened..!! No, not long long ago, just some 15-20 years ago or so..!!
Mom : I am leaving now, so that you all can be happy.
I know you don't need me anymore.. Oh, Yes I forgot, you do need me.. To.. to serve all your needs, cook for you people, clean home, find your things,. Take care of you when you fall sick.. to say nice things when you are sad.. to please all the guests..!! Almost like a maid to take care of some things and people..! But no more.. I am leaving right now and will never come back...
She walked out of the hall ; sliding her foot briskly into her sleepers placed in that webbed corner nearest to the door, and was about to slam the front door behind her,..
Me : (Crying) Mom, no Mom.. don't go.. please... Mom please ...
I kept running behind her.. She was furious.. really, for reasons I couldn't yet understand.. I was just 6 years old... I wasn't yet capable of understanding my parents arguments.. I just knew there were angry ..!! There were very few feelings that my brain could interpret at that age..
My Sister and dad were giggling behind us..(And I was surprised..! :p) My dad was calling out to me... "Chinnu she wont go anywhere.. She's just going to Neeta aunty's home.. (our neighbor).. stop crying..!! she will come back.. she wont go anywhere".. and there was my sis standing behind me to get me back into home.
I looked back and heard what my dad said.. but wasn't sure of believing him ; was he telling the truth?! Mom wont go anywhere?!!.. I wanted that to be the truth.. cause that sounded good..!! I thought to smile and think.. but couldn't.. I just kept running behind my mom.. following her.. She was walking fast, like she wanted to really go away from all of Us.. That is what it felt like to me.. But then I saw her walk towards a home, familiar.. Somewhere towards Neeta aunty's home.. !! And then a sigh of relief..!!
The feelings that a 8 year, sorry 6.. :p 6 yr old was feeling.. sadness, anxiety, fear all had subsided .. and now I had calmed down!.. My mom "Smiled", mind you, smiled :) and entered Neeta aunty's home, while Neeta aunty welcomed her, asking.. was dinner for the day already prepared..!!.. :-P
Moral of the Story ?! -> Indian Parents are such dramebaaz, and they are always ready with scary/horrible surprises for their kids.. :D :p . (to be continued..)'
(Continuation... :p)
She is also a big dramebaaz, like all typical Indian moms.. typical Indian women.. wiling/blackmailing to fulfill their tiny winy wishes.. and they did that, cause that was the only option they had.. They loved everyone dearly and genuinely.Relations were built only to nurture and to live them forever. There was nothing like calling off a relationship; Whatever it was, You deal with it and you sort it out, You don't run away or leave. One could only enter into a relationship and there was no way out of it. You live and die in it..
And then ,we grew up.. :( *sad thing.. I know).. We realized there was something called attraction, something called infatuations, something very special, melodramatic, eternal kind of.. LOVE..(Tada ..) which happened with only one.
Then as time passed, only to get more confused of things.. we realized, Love could happen even twice, (Honestly, when I read this Ravinder Singh's First book "I too had a Love Story" back when I younger and more foolish.. , I had Cried when Kushi(his love) dies in the story.!! Like Really Cried.. as if I have lost my puppy or something..!! :D , and then I saw his second book, "Can Love Happen Twice".. In which he romances some other girl..!! I was like, this was the guy I pitied on?! ohh! Such a crap!!!) )
SO, then people said, Love could happen anytime with anyone.. People just fall in Love and fall out of Love.. and when they fall out of love , they don't wait for the Love to come back between them, neither they want it to come back.. They have no patience for all that.. They just have too many people waiting out there and sadly this is our generation..! This is Us..
We don't have patience for anything to fall in place. We want everything to just come by as soon as we think of it, there is reason for it, as generations get more educated (only to loose all the sense and wisdom), as their Lifestyles improve, they become more independent in all aspects, they tend to have more options. But what they fail to realize is relationships that come by easily and swiftly will also leave them faster than they came in.
Biggest drawback of our generation is, we learn about everything under sun too early in Life. We have every equipment that will help us understand anything and everything under Sun. We have enough money(Not me though :p ) to have anything we wish, and enough freedom to do what we wish to., By 30 the our gen, starts to think there is nothing much in Life, as by 30, we almost try and know every interesting thing that we can., we own a house, have a car.. now you just go on upgrading these..! we are almost like settled (in societal norms), which the earlier generation could only get by the time they reached their 50's or 60's, because they were not in a hurry, they were not in hurry to earn money, get into relationships, to know everything possible, to settle down. They had patience for everything to come by at its time. They had enough time for the people they loved, for the things they loved..
They actually had the best benefit of not being addicted to doing things, only to "show it off" to people, but because they did things because they actually wanted to do them.. I actually feel, they "Lived" Life more than us and they loved more than we could ever think of..!
Our generation ages soon, still when our bodies are young..! Because we are in a lot of hurry , to reach first.. to reach first, somewhere, but not even aware of "where" exactly!! Just the way, Joker says in Batman.." I am like a dog, that runs behind cars.. but I don't know what I would do with it, if i caught it!!". Yes, we are very capable to getting any car we wish for (to be taken in philosophical sense) but that doesnt mean we go on doing thing like that batman wala "mad dog".." :p .. Lets not run behind each and everything we see. Let's sit somewhere patiently, not to learn/decide/understand anything.!! but to enjoy life as it comes.. Stop running like a mad dog..! Hurry Up and Calm Down!!..
Me?! Yea.. I too was running.. but dint loose any weight, as I jogged like only for a day..!! :p
And this ^running!? , that I have slowed down and calmed down a bit now..!! I think so.. :p :p
Thanks for reading!!
Chalo baradiva, loved d narration through a kid's perception in u at d first half😊 And yeah ododu e generationda aadat and majboori agabitteti, just d thoughts like these at instant may make us to be calm and have a serene perspective about our life.
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Thank you Rg:)
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