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Wednesday 3 August 2011

How young are you?

Tell me one thing, who decides the age limit to be young or to become old? I don't understand. I am 30 and does that make it necessary that you have stopped being young and now you are old...Oh..come on now, what non sense is this?

True to being a Gemini, I have always found two different sides of myself on so many occasions and that being as young as I can be at heart and behaving very matured when needed. And, I find this absolutely easy and happy to do so. Feeling young at heart gives me more courage and confidence to take risks and venture new things and my other side gives me enough of advises to go through slowly and safely. So, whats wrong in being young?

When most of the women or a men becomes successful only after 30, people here think that reaching 30 is your threshold limit and you have to just pack your baggage and move to the next compartment.No,you dont have to...For me, 30 is the age for you to explore many new things more confidently and happily, because most of the people you talk to and move with would be younger than you and it gives you more authority and a credibility you can easily move among.

When one of my friends, who is divorced after a very short commercial marriage (the marriage was arranged purely for business purpose, her dad wanted to start a business in US and he got a prospective guy (read:Managing Director) to marry his daughter, my friend. And she completed her mandatory one year and came back to India and got her divorce). And, the interesting part is now she is dating a guy who is much younger than her and almost all of our friends got excited at the news simply because her boyfriend is younger than her. When we all sat and analyzed why we girls got so excited at the news, we realized everyone wants to be young always and have young partners who can also stay young always....(Too much to ask isn't it?)

Anyways, its totally up to you to decide how you want yourself to be....Young or old or whatever...But, just remember one thing, getting younger with time is always a better option. And by now, you would have thought, why am I writing such post today? There is a flash back not so long, but cut to this morning: I was waiting for the lift in my apartment to go down, when this 14 year old boy, studying 7th standard, living opposite to my flat, came and simply asked,"Aunty, are you going down?"....Thats was it...That was enough for me to get upset for the whole day...may be for a whole week...I wanted to reply him,"I am going old"....hhrrrrr.............


 Chalo, abhi, what else he could call me....Akka?(Sister) obviously he cant, because, we are 16 yrs apart and cant call me by name, because we are not used to that name calling system yet. Now, I seriously wish I had stayed in UK for ever because I never heard any one calling anybody as Aunty....Mrs.Khan or Mrs.Rehana would have been nice and a good starter for the day and its sad that boy didn't know he would cause such a blog today.

So, the final conclusion is: Hello all, Please don't let your children above 15(14) to call people like us as Aunty/Uncle...Okay? Teach them to call  with some manners, Mr.Sharma or Varma and Mrs. Sharma or Varma....ok?I promise I will never let my 1.5 yr old daughter to call you as Aunty or Uncle...Hope you guys understand what I mean.........


(P.S: How can he call me like that yaar?:(  How young am I?shit, I am confused now.....)

3 comments:

  1. I Agree to your post in its entirety,but also wish to share something..

    I am also 30 now & This incident happened in late 2008..I was travelling from N.Delhi to Chennai in a 2nd AC coach, I very young couple came on board on the same coach..at about 19:30hrs, She just addressed me "Uncle" and asked "if i can sit in some other seat (which obviously was her BF's berth)" .. I politely declined the offer as I prefer the Side-lower berths always...(and not one of the least reasons was she addressing me as Uncle).. It was a rude awakening for me..as I was like 27/8 back then...and she is what 18/19 ..My God...

    But in the following years I had become a good deal of "Uncle"s for a lotta kids...obviously my MOm is the strong objector of these...than me...

    whatever...
    I enjoyed reading your blog and brought me a lotta memories...

    GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

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  2. @RedKnight....Thanx for d comment and u happen to give my first ever comment on the blog.And, as u said, I too have got used to Aunty for a lot of kids and I have absolutely no issues with it.What else can we be called? :)
    ANd, I liked :GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. Very true...

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  3. Hi Rehana,

    Hope u got hurt by this word in lot of places,


    To make ourself young read n number of books, play and drink more water it may sound odd but still u wanna used to it. Its just overcoming the hurdles or what u feel so

    If u read books u get updated to the technology and u can discusses at any place if they are age of 10, 20, 30 , 40 ,50

    Have a learning travel thru u r life

    then sure they will call u Ms.Rehana

    If u play it keeps u healthy and open to interact with everyone i mean u can join good gym

    if u drink water it keeps u young face will be sparkling like prince

    Regards

    Lifin
    lifinsamhr@gmail.com

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