When I was a little kid ,I thought adults lead the most cool life.I never saw my dad learning multiplication tables of 2 to 25. I never saw mom have to learn about the Maurya empire and the guys they screwed in wars. Parents could watch TV whenever they want. They could be awake till late night. I got used to badly beaten by mom after getting my mark sheets from school .So i wished i would grow up fast to stop her from beating me like that.
But in spite of the beating , there is something very cool about being a kid. When you are a kid , life is like an unopened box. You dont know what will come out of it. Maybe chocolates , maybe spiders , maybe rabbits , maybe a little doll ,maybe toilet paper. And that gives a very beautiful sense to a kid - a sense of wonder. It is not the same as worry. The kid is still not old enough to worry about if his future son would smoke marijuana or about his future wife's beauty parlour expenses. So he does not view any situation and runs a little mental calculator and think -"hmm.so this would increase the income tax i pay by 2354 bucks".A kid is just a kid.He has no forlorn memories and no worries of the future. He just views the fun going around him with awe and amazement. A ride on daddy's shaky yellow scooter amazes him. A fly on the table amazes him. Cigarette butts lying on the street attracts him. Atleast I was attracted by them when I was a kid.
And he aint an mba or doctor or engineer or fashion designer or a gangster or a barber yet. A kid can imagine he would grow up and be anyone. He can imagine becoming a firefighter and rescuing young girls from a girls hostel on fire and then walking off into the sunset with all of them. He can imagine becoming a cricketer and hitting 147 off 93 balls and then grab 5 wickets for 11 runs to help
Im living like im watching a jim carrey movie for the 21st time. Im enjoying it , but I know whats coming next. Or maybe I am not interested in whats coming next. The life box has been opened and I know life is nothing more than an alternation of sweet chocolates and awful medicines. I have had heartbreakingly difficult times. Like the time that itchy brown stray dog on my school street chased me along the length of six houses for continuously six days. I ve seen amazingly good times. Like the time our school maintenance guys grabbed that itchy brown dog and took him away in a truck .
Its like a sagacious attitude has descended upon me like - I know what life can do to me. Its like I feel every victory or defeat is trivial. Because life is just a prime time slot given between birth and death. whatever we achieve here aint so important , is it ?
All the boyish things which seemed fun to me some time ago seem ...well...boyish to me now. All this pretension and jealousy and ego around is making me turn away from some people. I am turning more and more of a private person. I spend hours in my room with music. I was never after material things. I never had any dreams of flat plasma televisions with surround sound or those long black cars which have six doors. All i used to dream was of a happy and close family life. But lately I am starting to see all relations as a source of attachment and misery in the long run , and thats a scary and empty feeling to have. I love my parents and sister and a few other people. But I feel too much attachment causes pain to all. I care a lot for them but I dont want to possess anyone now. I would give my life for them , I dont want to own their lives .I just want to let go. I just dont want to cling to anything. Maybe I fear losing it. Sometimes I feel I have forgotten to love. Sometimes it seems I have found what true love is only now. People say I am turning away from them. I feel I am turning in to myself.
Some people spend their lives searching for what they want. Some people spend their lives searching that what it is that they want .I just live each day and dont even want to search because I feel I just do not want anything.
Life is peacefully empty .I do not know if I want it to change. Something needs to be different maybe. I am not sure, Maybe I need to shake up the kid in me. The life box needs to throw up something i dont know. I need to rediscover the sense of wonder .I think I’ll start by redeveloping an interest in cigarette butts lying on the street.