"The trouble with growing up is, by the time we get rid of the pimple problems, there are wrinkles to take care of"
- Anonymous
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off."
- Fight Club
During my young(er) years, I looked forward to growing up, becoming an adult.
I remember throwing, literally throwing my geography book away after my 10th boards geography paper was over, "I never have to study geography in my life again", I thought with relief, but nevertheless picked the book up a while later and kept it away ('what if I don't pass this time around?').
Alas, with the advent of calculus, my once favourite subject went the geography way. I waited for school to get over.
Then came college, and things hit rock bottom, or so I thought...not only did I have no inkling of what was going on, I had no clue what the future held in store.
I wanted to hold on tightly to the present, forget growing up, take me back to the 90s, if that's not possible at least pause the time dear god!
A few years later came the sad realization that I was never going to be able to afford a Ferrari.
As you grow up and get older the dreams you have start to crumble, one at a time...the "outrageous" hopes and goals we had turn more realistic, and are battered down to something that's probably not even worth achieving.
We look back at the days gone by and wish that we could have them back, but of course, that's not possible.
I miss the one month long summer vacations, I miss the good old DD1 and DD Metro and He Man cartoons, I miss those old bulky landlines which you actually had to dial, I miss the innocence of friendships that I had in primary school, I miss waiting for the postman to deliver letters, knowing fully well that those letters had no relevance to me.
The other day I got a forward, it simply said "Imagine, 1990 is right now as far away as 2040". It seemed impossible till I actually did the math.
I used to be a bit tech savvy as a kid, but when I see 6 year olds surfing the net and doing things which I didn't know could be done, I feel a bit like the T-800 in the Terminator Genisys movie, "Obsolete".
And then I think, this is just the beginning, if I feel outdated now, how am I going to feel 20 years later? How am I going to last?
And then instead of going back in time, I wish I could just go forward to my retirement age, live peacefully in isolation,
From "little one" to "bhai" to "bhaiya" to "uncle", time does fly by quick.
Like this blog, this post too, doesn't have much of a point, but just a stark reminder, that we are just a speck of dust in this universe, our lives are of little or no consequence in the larger scheme of things, in all likelihood, most of us would not be putting a dent on the universe, in our lifetime, or later, yet we go on, hoping to make a mark, willfully oblivious of our un-importance.
This post started off with two somewhat negative quotes, here's one more.
"Even if you are one in a million, on a planet of nearly 6.8 billion, that means there are 7000 people just like you."
So much for being an unique snowflake.
- Anonymous
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off."
- Fight Club
During my young(er) years, I looked forward to growing up, becoming an adult.
I remember throwing, literally throwing my geography book away after my 10th boards geography paper was over, "I never have to study geography in my life again", I thought with relief, but nevertheless picked the book up a while later and kept it away ('what if I don't pass this time around?').
Alas, with the advent of calculus, my once favourite subject went the geography way. I waited for school to get over.
Then came college, and things hit rock bottom, or so I thought...not only did I have no inkling of what was going on, I had no clue what the future held in store.
I wanted to hold on tightly to the present, forget growing up, take me back to the 90s, if that's not possible at least pause the time dear god!
A few years later came the sad realization that I was never going to be able to afford a Ferrari.
As you grow up and get older the dreams you have start to crumble, one at a time...the "outrageous" hopes and goals we had turn more realistic, and are battered down to something that's probably not even worth achieving.
We look back at the days gone by and wish that we could have them back, but of course, that's not possible.
I miss the one month long summer vacations, I miss the good old DD1 and DD Metro and He Man cartoons, I miss those old bulky landlines which you actually had to dial, I miss the innocence of friendships that I had in primary school, I miss waiting for the postman to deliver letters, knowing fully well that those letters had no relevance to me.
The other day I got a forward, it simply said "Imagine, 1990 is right now as far away as 2040". It seemed impossible till I actually did the math.
I used to be a bit tech savvy as a kid, but when I see 6 year olds surfing the net and doing things which I didn't know could be done, I feel a bit like the T-800 in the Terminator Genisys movie, "Obsolete".
And then I think, this is just the beginning, if I feel outdated now, how am I going to feel 20 years later? How am I going to last?
And then instead of going back in time, I wish I could just go forward to my retirement age, live peacefully in isolation,
From "little one" to "bhai" to "bhaiya" to "uncle", time does fly by quick.
Like this blog, this post too, doesn't have much of a point, but just a stark reminder, that we are just a speck of dust in this universe, our lives are of little or no consequence in the larger scheme of things, in all likelihood, most of us would not be putting a dent on the universe, in our lifetime, or later, yet we go on, hoping to make a mark, willfully oblivious of our un-importance.
This post started off with two somewhat negative quotes, here's one more.
"Even if you are one in a million, on a planet of nearly 6.8 billion, that means there are 7000 people just like you."
So much for being an unique snowflake.
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