Used to watch Sachin with wide open mouths.
Learned perfection hence
Never being interested in his records,
just the Goosebumps-giving straight drives with MRF
From the promises-to-self of never
marrying
Of never drinking, never drinking and
driving
Never doing the wrong
From the summers of boredom to being
busy for the waiting ones
Came a long way
Learned
English with the spoken English classes offered by Yahoo messengers and Orkuts
Who would’ve thought, that it would earn
the food that donkey years of education never could
That waiting for the kissing scenes in
Hollywood movies
Anything more than that would make the
day up
Studies meant exams, exams meant marks, and
marks meant expectations
Studies never meant learning. Not even
after knowing that marks meant nothing
Terraces were the play grounds which
never existed
Terraces were converted to secret party
places later
And Bars, And night out adda’s
Bunked it all
Schools, colleges, tuitions, offices
Some times, technically, home
Those afternoons of blaming our dads for
not being rich
And blaming the rich for not giving it
all away
Not having the bucks to party
To having no places which could hold the
parties long enough
From the outlander view from inside a
boys school
To getting bored and sick of nuisance of
girls (oops - most of the girls)
Moved on, from hand video games, to TV
video games, to PC games
Now to no-more games
From the Dexter’s labs and ftv
To Nolan’s Memento and more
In the process, came across people, acquaintances,
few friends, very few good friends
Losing a couple of them by chance, some friends
by choice
From being pure atheists
To being just an agnostic
And not caring enough to even remember
that term
From Learning about hypocrisy by observation
From gaining expertise in it by practice
To hating it all by heart
To deciding never to be a pert of that
mix
To realizing that it’s a resolution hard
to hold
Starting with belief of a destiny, going
around the concept of luck
Coming to believe in the randomness
We grew up.
