At 13, for boys, a 'below the knee-school-pant' symbolise their humble ascend to manhood. You enter High school, having attained from your peers, the knowledge of adolescent nirvana. Now you finally know storks dont deliver babies!! Halleluiah! Armed with this knowledge about human reproduction, now for you, girls are no longer the alien beings they used to be. If you couldn't look at them before, now you so want to! (albeit a little below their faces, of course) If you couldn't stand them before, now they make you stand! ( or at least parts of you ) Well, you better get used to this because this is something that you're gonna be doing for pretty much of your life. Well, for some, the transition from PokeMon to American Pie can be quite a 'jaw opener'.
Then in no time, you're in 10th and teachers treat you like a 4GB pendrive. You're sick of the rote learning. Thinking SSC might actually make a difference in your life is as farfetched as hoping himesh Reshamiya will win a Grammy. Relationships are suddenly the new cool - Its 'I-phone cool' ( Having one is so cool but you just dont know what to do with it) Its like your medium wala paanipuri - you just can't express the taste. The humiliated looks on the girls' face while looking at certain anatomical diagrams in the biology book make exaggeration look exaggerated. For godsakes, its not your vulva! Chill! You're at the cinema with your newly obtained 'girl friend', aiming to scale those twin peaks. Well..Someday. You harmlessly touch her hand and she shrieks "What are you doing?!!" "Nothing! Touching your hand!" And she says "Dont! Thats sex right!!!". Ignorance. Do NOT get in to a relationship when you're immature!
If school was like reading twilight, then college is like...err..reading breaking dawn. You start believing the teachers at practicals are hardcore Roadies fans, whose obsession drives them into enacting a Roadies audition in the lab every week. You wonder whether they stopped manufacturing those high tech gadgets called 'carbon paper' because you're tired coping an experiment in 5 different books, in 5 different manner. You miss the pen-drive phase because now they expect you to be external hard disks with in-built RAM. You miss the bimbo phase of girls because now your girlfriend is at your heels, shouting that her bra provides her more support than you do. Hell, they've grown.
Judging your career by your marks in one damn exam as absurd as casting Sunny leone in an Ekta Kapoor saas bahu soap. All the societal pressure on you makes you ask questions like that of a Yogi on the path of salvation. 'Why this life?' 'Why am I doing this? Theres no purpose'.'Why dont we screw the society?' (Maybe the last one wasn't Yogi-like) Rhetorical questions DONT have answers. (Try asking why are the Kardashians famous)
When you're approaching 18, you'll see those 'OMG! I'm gonna be 18!'ish friends. Why the hell would 18 be different I ask. I get a 'We can drive, vote and have sex' as the answer always. Unless you have BMW, have your own political party or have a girlfriend who says 'Come fuck me', eighteen is much ado about NOTHING.
Well, I have two years left as a teen. In the meanwhile, there remains no doubt in the next two years I'll be dragged through a lot of crap which the society and education system wil solemnly bestow me with. Let me tell you, I miss the innocence of the tot who used to be excited about wearing a long pant for school, rather than being harassed in the name of career and education. Whatever we do...howmuch ever we grow..we'll always look back for consolation...And you'll see that pre-teen child in you, waving back and asking you to go on....
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." -- C.S. Lewis
May 14, 2012
hehe enjoyed it...very true...put it up on fb!
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