On my way to the office...

Today I was coming to the office and saw a kid (must be about 5-6 yrs) sitting on a bike that was parked... probably his father (or whoever have come with him) went to a store to buy something..it was about 12:15 in the afternoon..he was well groomed..had a nice hair cut recently...he was yawning (probably he just woke up or got tired of playing on a sunday morning with his friends).. The incident (the kid sitting on the bike and yawning) was so lovely that all my childhood memories rushed back with lightening speed...the days when I wanted to get out of school from the moment I went in, to the time when I always wanted to be in school rather than sit at home. The days when I joined a hostel in chennai for my schooling from 4th to 8th class..the days when I joined Bhavan's for my 9th and 10th class...after that it was end of childhood I guess...responsibilities slowly started creeping into my life..

When I was a child I always used to wonder about when i would grow up so that i would not get any more scoldings and bashings from my parents , teachers and relatives..I would not have to go out of home whenever somebody who came to my home felt like having something bought from a shop, or call a rickshaw (or auto).. I always had to pester my parents for something or the other....I would keep waiting for some things for so much time that when my parents finally bought them, I would have lost interest in them...

When I had to fight with my sister for all the silly reasons (they did not seem to be silly then)...I wish I had not fighted so much with her. I sometimes used to hurt her feelings knowingly..There were days when I felt shy to attend a marriage(or any function for that matter)..however now I enjoy attending marriages for the good time that I will have with my cousins and gape at beautiful girls.

There were days when I had to wait for somebody to come with me for a movie...now I go to a movie as and when I feel .... There were days when I did not have to worry about anybody...now before I do anything i will have to think about what would that action lead to...it would be so much nice if this world was free of egos...now everybody is a king in his own world...

Now after I have spent about 1/4th of a century of my life I would like to go back to days when I was between 11-15...maybe even younger than that....I guess there is nothing much that we can do about growing up...sick ain't it?

I might sound a li'l outlandish but I will start off by saying who inspired me to blog...Alekhya and Komal. I have created an account on blogger.com about two years ago and have always wanted to express my thoughts since then. It was just that I did not have enough courage....I was always wondering about what people would think if they read my thoughts (I mean blogs). A couple of days ago, I came across Alekhya's blog and her writing was so good that I could not stop thinking about how many more people are there who expressed their thoughts so wonderfully. I left it at that...

Today I am working in a night shift and don't have lot of work to do..I was just browsing through some blogs and happened to hit upon Komal's 100th blog. That is what inspired me to go ahead and start blogging...somepoints like he has nothing interesting in life to write in a diary and one of his lecturers inspiring him about life(someday I will find the meaning of that)...and he taking up blogging regularly though he did not have a lot of readers...his writing about his thoughts openly(is that the right word?)...were the best.

I read all sorts of books (fiction and non-fiction) and always wonder at the writing abilities of the authors so much that I wanted to be one among them (Hopefully I will become one in the furture, don't ask me how?) and that is what inspired me to create an account in Blogger.com so that I can get opinions from people who view my blogs ...however I did not have enough determination to start off till I hit upon these two wonderful people.

Even now I am not sure about How far will I go with my blogging...but what the heck I will 'Keep Trying' (BTW that is my favourite quote)...thing is I am not sure of what to blog about...lets see how far can I go?