Sunday, April 29, 2012

We grew up


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.




3 comments:

The girl with ying yang tattoo said...

brilliant piece!! :D

Unknown said...

v r still messing wid some of them..P hehe..:P n v r still growin up..:P

NEMI said...

Excellent Post Raj... :)