The baggage…
Quite many of you are probably familiar with the name – How I Met Your Mother. In a recent episode on the series, they explained in their own typical bizarre and appreciably funny way how every person in every relationship has a baggage. A baggage, something unique about everyone that they carry around, disclosed or undisclosed to people they meet, and trying to figure out what baggage the person they are with carries…
I sat back, thinking about this baggage and it struck me, our life is like a person we live with all our life, and that person – hypothetically – ought to have some baggage too! I kept thinking and stumbled upon something inevitable that life has with it. That inevitable baggage, that one fact we hate and admire almost equally in our existence, is what sometimes makes life almost as exciting as the thrill of a just-born relationship, all afresh!! Yes, I am talking about growing up, something we all have had to do no matter if we were up for it or not.. Every one of us has ‘been there’. Faced with the some or the other ‘issues’ of childhood, we all had our reasons to want to grow up fast and be able to make our own decisions… and to be able to tell the whole world to f*** off…!
We couldn’t wait to get over with school and go to college… to experience this ‘youth’ they all spoke of… and there on ahead… it was just gonna be our own way, with no spoon-feeding whatsoever. But then, we did grow up, only to find ourselves in a world that is a lot – maybe completely – different than what it promised to be. The lifelong ambition to buy every missing comic book from that proud DC Collection never seemed to finally be possible – though we promised ourselves that would be the first thing we’d do to utilize the first paycheck!! Anything and everything we always wanted that we made up our mind to achieve when we grew up, didn’t seem possible now… be it that 3200Watt Stereo he always wanted in his room/car, or that NVidia Graphics Card he told his precious DVD-games collection that he will buy within the first few months of his ‘next big change’… or maybe that huge, pink dollhouse Mom and Dad never bought for her even when she promised she’d be a good girl… We all wanted to grow up because we knew we could do it better than them.
Now that we are there, we just can’t manage to… well… manage all that anymore!!!
The only inevitable change in life – Growing up…
We all have those friends who just for the sake of “keeping in touch”, keep sending those texts they never wrote but bring a smile to one’s face… A day or two back, I received a similar text about growing up. (Voila!) Yeah, it had all those goody goody lines about how there are just more luxuries and less time to enjoy those.
Why there’s no one to fight over the new pair of jeans…
Nor are there 4-5 pairs of hands to get a grab of the largest piece of the birthday cake… or the pies of pizza…
Where are the road trips on the rusty bikes overloaded with friends, and why does the car look so empty now…
Why do we have to always grow up… why do things have to change just when you start to believe life couldn’t get any better…
Why do we miss the life of a student we once hated to live… and why will it never be the same again…
These and many more thoughts kept hammering every bit of the 1300 grams in my skull… and then I decided to take a stroll through what others have to say on similar lines… I kept looking and nothing caught my eye except Ioana’s Blog on Life, its importance, and our need to make sure we live to make it worth its while… I read the blog, and read it again – to convince myself that it’s only fair that life goes on, for that’s what makes it as intriguing as ever!!
You get to hear from people all the time that we must “live as if there is no tomorrow” and those very people who chant these cool lines are later seen running around in circles of “get up – go to work – sleep” routine… I don’t “live as if there is no tomorrow” but at least I sure live with almost no regrets. I have had my share of mistakes, and Lord help me – I already know I am not done yet! 😛 … Although, knowing that so many people end their lives for reasons as silly as failures, losses, and at times, love too… it is just appalling. Life is how we look at it. If for someone, life means taking a leap off the tallest tower, fall down and be gone forever… then that’s what they’ll do. But then, one could probably just do the same as an attempt to fly, and only God knows, that might just happen too! What matters is if the leap has that faith behind it… The faith of support, the will to succeed, and the force deep down inside you, telling you that ‘everything’s gonna be alright – so keep going!’
We grow up, and then grow old, hand-in-hand with Life – the sole entity that walks with us no matter what – until the very end.. My existence is too futile to talk about afterlife and previous life et al. And honestly for all I care, if all that’s true and if we don’t make the most of this one time, I hardly see a point in being given the Gift of Life – again! It’s never too late to make a new beginning. I didn’t feel like making a post that didn’t even impress me, let alone my readers (yeah! Like there is a flock of people hitting F5 on https://tehsecretcloset.wordpress.com/ waiting eagerly to read the first post on the website… Come on – I am no William Shakespeare or Benjamin Franklin…! However, if this article is to be believed, I am just next to them says Rix Quinn.) Anyway, the point is – Here it is! My work, for your scrutiny. Go nuts… Beat it…
I have tried writing before, but gave it up for lack of audience (or critics, if you will). I hope I get some serious ear-twisting for the loopholes in my writing and any of you reading this is welcome to comment. I hope I put down some good writing together in the days to come. Until then, BoiBoi™…!
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