From the day I was born till today, I always have tried hard to 'grow up' - as the oldies prefer to mention... I desperately wanted to grow up real quick to be a responsible, sensible and practical human being.... A perfect human being... Someone who undergoes proper education, strives and finds a good job to start a commendable career, shapes up good morals and values, performs at optimum levels without "Phal ke iccha", someone who is always there for his friends, someone who will go beyond scope to make sure that the needs are met let that be a project, a troubled friend, a distressed colleague or a stranger in need. Someone who respects his innocence as much as his maturity.... But I guess I was wrong...
Innocence and maturity don't go hand in hand... If you are trying to grow up and retrieve your innocence, you are definitely heading Nowhere!!!
The oldies ask children to be sensible in life, but they themselves fight like hooligans to satisfy their 'Ego'....
The oldies teach children to share, then why do they forget it themselves...
The oldies ask children to study hard and perform, then why do they channelize efforts to find ways to evade work!
The oldies teach their children not to bitch! ... But that is their favourite time pass in their so called offices!!!
The oldies teach their children to never lie... But they themselves play around with words using them interestingly to manipulate...
Hence, the day we are all set to bid adieu to our innocence.... We grow up !!!
Incidentally I realized that innocence is what has driven me so far... and innocence it will be, to take me forward.... If that means I can't grow up, I would prefer being a child all my life!!!
Think about it!
Dipankar
