Stranger In The Mirror

     I start this blog as a platform to put my views across. The below post is one I wrote almost two years ago. I put this up as my introductory post because it aptly conveys my views, in general as well as tells you what to expect from the blog. so here starts my journey with 'Peripheral Vision.'
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       I gazed through the window as the first      rains of the season poured out of the sky, marking the end of summers reign. The season was changing. And so was everything else.

     

       I guess I was done and over with the initial phase of a person’s life which everyone fondly calls the ‘school life’. Exams, over. Results ,declared .Mission accomplished. But I reckon the school had become synonymous to a kind of training ground for gladiators, preparing them for the epic battle i.e. board exams in this case.

       

       End of phase one. And the next was already beckoning me. college. Truly, change is inevitable. The more you try to run away from it, the more rapidly it approaches you. It certainly wasn’t long ago that we were tiny tots. But since then a lot has changed .and lots left to change. As we matured, the childish innocence gradually faded away. The carefree, dependent lifestyle transformed it’s form. The competitive world sucked the fun out of our lives. Untold teenage emotions, adolescent anguish blended into the melodrama we call ‘life’. The embracing of insomnia on the exam eves, incorporating the entire syllabus in those nocturnal hours still fresh in my mind. Unknowingly or knowingly, teenage vices crept into our souls. Some tormented by an unsuccessful love life and the urge to get into a relationship while some others who did the mistake and is awaiting redemption i.e. break up.

       

       All this while, even the world around us hasn’t escaped the clutches of change. Pokémon and DBZ made way for FRIENDS and roadies. Comics don’t occupy our book shelves any more. Sidney Sheldon and Dan Brown books do. And twilight too ( crap!).The most phenomenal change however was that television was robbed of its ‘idiot box’ status and the computer took its place as the deserving heir of the throne. Facebook became the ultimate diary .the anger, happiness and confusion of teenage minds found their resort in the social networking world. Status-updating and chatting started figuring in our everyday ‘must-do’ lists.

       

       Now when I look into a mirror, a stranger stares back at me. I have never been like this always. We have ventured deeper into life than earlier. We have had experiences – good and bad, which hopefully would give us some backup in future. Some people whom you thought would be with you until the very end have already parted the ways. And the ones whom you never cared about turned out to be the ones that loved you. This indeed is the simple beauty of life. The deeper you go the more uncertain you become. We spend our time reading novels and watching rom-coms but fail to recognize the fact that our lives are nothing less. Though for some it might be a tragedy, yet for some it may have the perfect ‘lived-happily-ever-after’ climax. Little do we realize that we are just helpless pawns in the game of chess that destiny plays. The journey isn’t even halfway. It certainly is the end of some things. But the start of many others.I am at present a total stranger to my past as well as to my future.

       

       The rain had stopped .and the sun blazed. Truly, the evolution of a person doesn’t stop until his last breath. So, here I go ahead, hand in hand with the happening changes.

                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                         - July 10, 2012