there are some moments in life that change you forever.
u live in comfort for 9 months in your mother's womb and BAM! u are evicted!!!! and that too without any notice period!!! voila... life as u knew it... changed for ever.
just when you have found your comfort zone again... BAM! you are in an institution that tells you how to spell your name... a name which sounded so familiar till yesterday, is now a task, an achievement, a homework to be completed.
just when you have built bonds that can last a lifetime... BAM! you meet someone who whisks you away from those very people who you laughed, fought, cried and shared your sandwich with. you swear you will never love again when you hear your heart break... but there is always someone waiting in the sidelines to sweep up those broken pieces and mend them the best way he can.
you know you have hit jack-pot, when BAM! the very name you learnt to spell correctly after all those years has to be changed. you adapt, adopt and adjust to this new environment and hope that 'global warming' doesn't affect it as the 7 year itch approaches.
BAM! BAM! you just experienced another change.... all of a sudden you are now responsible for two or more lives. you are now the adult who will be looked up to with innocent eyes.you are the adult who will have to give up all reasoning and be unreasonably, hopelessly in love with 'your creation'. of course like all new inventions in this world... even your creation will have start-up problems in the form of burps, farts and poo.... but nothing too earth shattering that cannot be resolved by fine tuning your senses to 'maximum tolerance level'.
and just when you realise that you have it all... BAM! your biological clock interrupts your stupor and tells you.. "excuse me... you need to now concentrate on me too. you have neglected me for far too long." so all the meals that you skipped to nurture 'your creation', all the chances you gave up to smile, all the sunrises you gave up to pack that tiffin box when you could be out enjoying the fresh air and walking towards a healthy 'you'; all of that comes back to haunt you. you realise... "i need to press the pause button..." but BAM! BAM! BAM! 'time' laughs in your face and tells you in that sarcastic tone that only 'time' can use... "Yeah right! like i have nothing else to do!"
so you panic!!! you run to 'your' inventor! you run to her and tell her; "Teach me! teach me! everything you learnt, from your achievements, from your goof -ups, from your dreams! and BAM!
'YOUR' inventor is gone. you were too late. too late living it up, too late thinking that the A+ or the B- mattered more than that one important minute. too late to ask... "am i doing the right thing?" too late to argue... "green tea or tata tea?" too late to wonder... "is it one spoon of cornflour or two?"
the only thing you have left in your hand in regret and a few pictures to help you bide the time away till you meet your inventor again and say, "Oh thank god... somethings don't change.... you are still the way i remembered you."
