So one more august has come and gone and I added one more birthday to my life! This was my birthday number twenty eight and I think from now on I enter the twilight of the best days of my life. Not that it was bed of roses or everything was hunky dory till now, but from this year onwards, I feel that the daily rumblings of personal and professional life would take a greater toll on my mind and body. I have my ageing parents to attend to, I have my challenged brother to attend to, I have my sister to attend to. I had my responsiblities even before but they were hidden at the back of my mind. Maybe I have mellowed a bit and the 'chalta hai' attitude towards my responsiblities seems to be fading away. Life looks a hard grind and probably, unconsciously, my mind is gearing up for the innumerable battles that lie ahead.
For the first time in my life I felt myself not part of hip and happening crowd or should I say, I felt a little old to be considered among that crowd. I was always in company of friends for whom age and things related did not matter. That was maybe becauseI was in college and we didn't have time to check things as mundane as our age, when we had many other important tasks like love and crushes to attend to! The whole 3 years of my PG life was spent like a paid holiday where we had to just enjoy overselves with examinations here and there momentarily halting the three year party.
My sister too celebrated her birthday on 14th August and for the first time in my life I gifted her somthing substantial. I gifted her a Nokia 6030 and the spark I saw in her eyes after seeing it was something worth more than the four thousand odd bucks that I paid for it. All this from my hard owned salary, which made the gifting her even more sweeter for me.
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