This is not my first
blog, but it's the first one of it's kind. It's 1:32am while writing this down. Not
sleepy at all, but a lot of restlessness surrounding me! I belong to a small town but have traveled
across and lived in two countries and several cities for my studies and I have
met hundreds of people down the road.
What is worth mentioning is, more than 80% of the people (am talking
about people around my age) think the
same way, the 'it's very common' way, live similar lifestyles, try to copy what others are doing, following
the herds, trying to look cool!
When I moved to the
city, most of the people, including my friends, and at some point me too, were
either busy trying to impress someone or live so cool that people get attracted
to you! Rubbish! Whenever I looked out of the window in the evenings, I could see
people of my age forming groups at food joints, rustling noises of bikes and
bike riders, girls getting dressed up for parties and pubs not single day of a
week but all five to seven days! On the other hand, some people had their own
fundas.
Smoking for them is a way to look cool.
Relationships are no more serious, but for FUN, a way to pass time. C'mon, you couldn't find any other better thing to pass your time with??
Drinking is nothing more than
being a part of some elite happening group which would consider you 'old
fashioned' if you don't drink! People show off drinking beer, Vodka, and
whatsoever names it has, as a very standard thing to do and declare such things
with so much pride as if they have been doing something worth noting! What sense does it make?
I am definitely not
the first one or the last one to go and study in a city or abroad. Tomorrow,
when I go home, my parents, my neighbors', my well-wishers will be trying to
see the different me, will be tracking down the new things in me that the city
has changed, but at the same time they'll also be searching for the old me, the
town me. My bags, my stuff, my language,
my habits, my behavior, my actions and reactions will
straightaway tell them whether their decision to send me out was correct or not
and whether their money for me is being invested on the right direction or not!
Yes, THAT'S going to be my report card! But we cannot forget how successful people are now in carrying multi-faces! One when you're with family, the innocent you, the clean you, and the second one, with your colleagues, the sincere you, and the last one, with your friends! Nobody knows which is the artificial one, not even your own self! Incredible!
At times, I feel,
what will I get trying to impress those whom I hardly know! People who are with
me, who are mine, always be by my side, that’s what I want to live for! Blessed are those who have got to live even a small period of time with their grandparents.
Their blessings, the stories of their hard work, those olden times that they
have lived, two generations or more before us teach us a lot. Tomorrow, when I reach
home, and start sharing my stories with my parents, grandparents and my
siblings, I would be proud to look into their eyes straightaway and tell them that I didn’t do anything which they did not want me to do!
Not trying to be
judgmental, but this is all what I
personally feel and think!
So true, I feel the same.
ReplyDeleteYeah Gops! :)
DeleteWe have fear for so called "society" in which we lives. Most of us (including me) acts mindfulnessly. #irony #hypocrisy #don't know what to call it ?!
ReplyDeletebasically trying to copy what others are doing! we frame our opinions by how others behave! :)
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