The slow descent that we perceived the journey to adulthood to be as kids ironically speeds up when we're headed there, when we're aware. Maybe something about paying attention contributes. Kinda like relativity.
As kids, we're carefree, we don't have qualms, worries, issues to deal with; only those that pertain to kid-stuff; like "i wonder when I can reach that jar of cookies atop the shelf near the exhaust fan" or "i wonder when I can open the freezer myself." These were the head-scratchers we had then. I guess we, as kids, considered adult issues trivial, and as adults, consider today's kids' issues trivial. There was never any in-between, no transition or graduation from one problem set to another. As kids, we just knew somehow that adulthood was far far away.
Its like one night when we went to sleep, we were troubled kids wondering why the jam on the bread during breakfast tasted weird with butter, and then when you wake the next day, you have acne issues. You're in kidulthood, you're in limbo, the most worrisome of stages to be in. And the funny thing is, even though the duration of us being kids (12-13 years) and the duration of us being adults (70+ years) IS way longer than the duration that we stay adolescents (anywhere between 5 to 8 years), the adolescent stage definitely seems to last the longest.
Issues become magnified, feelings of isolation, no-one paying heed to symptoms, no one to 'understand' you. Relativity, simply put.
Kids should have a play-by-play recap of themselves during adolescence and during adulthood. Its the only way to remind adults to live their lives and not merely exist.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
a day in the life of... (2)
usually lying on the tummy, snug behind a pot in the lush garden of bungalow no. 19, this fat cat owns the colony.. any real estate in my colony belongs to this feline.. he sleeps where he wishes.
his day begins with sleep, under the bmw 5 series or merecedes c-class, nothing less will do! Ever the regal feline (henceforth, Julian), Julian understands he's untouchable...so much that the colony mongrels stay smart and never get in Julian's way.. Julian has been known to chase rabid dogs outta the colony gates.. something the paid watchmen cannot muster doing with dandas et al.
Julian likes his tail and those of the 2 other cats from bungalow 20. Julian, one day, was discovered by me under the corolla of my neighbor, (bung. 24).. having his noon siesta.. and i couldn't resist trying to mess with the royal nap.. and hissed!.. and the glare i got in return.. i swear Julian transformed to the devil.. such spite and contempt I have never seen in the eyes of any living entity that's not human.. it was pure unadulterated evil.
Julian also, in his spare time, likes to confuse himself by looking into the reflective windows of most bungalows. and believe there's another feline out to get him and oust him of his alpha-male status. claws on glass has the same effect as nails on a blackboard.
Julian is as good as a visiting relative.. a non-paying guest, one you would'nt dare evict.. lest you wish to give ur plants and windows an extreme makeover.. and get a barrage of whines and meows that echo into the night.
his day begins with sleep, under the bmw 5 series or merecedes c-class, nothing less will do! Ever the regal feline (henceforth, Julian), Julian understands he's untouchable...so much that the colony mongrels stay smart and never get in Julian's way.. Julian has been known to chase rabid dogs outta the colony gates.. something the paid watchmen cannot muster doing with dandas et al.
Julian likes his tail and those of the 2 other cats from bungalow 20. Julian, one day, was discovered by me under the corolla of my neighbor, (bung. 24).. having his noon siesta.. and i couldn't resist trying to mess with the royal nap.. and hissed!.. and the glare i got in return.. i swear Julian transformed to the devil.. such spite and contempt I have never seen in the eyes of any living entity that's not human.. it was pure unadulterated evil.
Julian also, in his spare time, likes to confuse himself by looking into the reflective windows of most bungalows. and believe there's another feline out to get him and oust him of his alpha-male status. claws on glass has the same effect as nails on a blackboard.
Julian is as good as a visiting relative.. a non-paying guest, one you would'nt dare evict.. lest you wish to give ur plants and windows an extreme makeover.. and get a barrage of whines and meows that echo into the night.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
uneventful
i feel like a cog in a square wheel; on the surface, working 8 hours of the day, traveling an hour, sleeping 7 hours, and whiling away the rest of the day. This stat-line looks just about normal. But, the transition from a full-time student to a part-time employee cum student to full-time employee has not been as rosy as initially assumed. Taken a hit, my schedule has. Tired from work, all I can do returning home is eat dinner, complemented by some online activity, a movie or 2, and then sleep. That leaves little or no time for my preferred free-time activities (playing the guitar/basketball) and that does not make me happy. An increasing waist-line and decreasing play time makes kk a grumpy pseudo middle-aged individual.
Now I can see what self-employed people have and I covet it. Nothing against regular employment, I have. But, right now, all I would want is satisfaction both, at work and away from it. And so far, its been coming in spurts only.
In other unrelated happenings, a water balloon filled with purple-whatever was flung at a bus by random urchin. A nut on said bus forgets to close window on holi when said bus was approaching mankhurd. Result of oversight by abovementioned nut results in easy entry access by balloon. Result of accurate flinging by moronic urchin is not so desirable as a mind full of issues gets 1 more added to it. Yes, my mind.
Now I can see what self-employed people have and I covet it. Nothing against regular employment, I have. But, right now, all I would want is satisfaction both, at work and away from it. And so far, its been coming in spurts only.
In other unrelated happenings, a water balloon filled with purple-whatever was flung at a bus by random urchin. A nut on said bus forgets to close window on holi when said bus was approaching mankhurd. Result of oversight by abovementioned nut results in easy entry access by balloon. Result of accurate flinging by moronic urchin is not so desirable as a mind full of issues gets 1 more added to it. Yes, my mind.
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