There is this acquaintance of mine who was explaining to me the joys of boozing,smoking and ogling at girls etc...I was showing least interest in his talks...no no i am not saying i am not interested in women..but the manner in which he was talking was of no interest to me...at this he mocked at me by saying,"arre tu to abhi bhi bachha hai na(u r still a kid)" and laughed out aloud...i immediately shot back at him and said ,"tune bada hoke kya ukhad liya?(what have u achieved by growing)"..i continued by saying."if this is what it means by growing,then i prefer to be a child"..Such statements especially from me flabbergasted him.He had nothing more to say but quietly walk away.
I was feeling very proud at that point in time… “A fiiting reply” I thought.While I was extolling myself at this feat of teaching him a good lesson, my mind which is sometimes as bubbly as a champagne said....”the words that I had uttered had just come out in the spur of the moment..what did I actually mean??” I realised that I had actually spoken the bitter fact of life..what have we achieved till date?? Take me for example…its been 25 years that this lump of flesh has existed on this beautiful place called earth..what have I achieved?? In how many people’s faces have i brought a smile?? What are the number of incidents that made my parents,friends,relatives feel proud of me???
This is something that I should seriously think about.If the numbers to the question are high,then I need to keep it up…if not then better pull up your socks ashish…