B'lore does wake you up and piss you off too!!!

Today, the 14th of December, 2007, I realized something so important. Something, I thought didn’t exist at all…
Finally I know where I stand in my parent’s opinion. I’m still this ‘immature kid’ who knows a crap about life. Eighteen isn’t this magical point when a person becomes a ‘nobody’ to an Einstein or a great thinker. Yes, but it is an age where people should consider you capable of making your own decisions in a level-headed manner. Or at least respect your opinions to a certain extent. But, NO…In the James’ family it doesn’t happen that way…you're still a kid until you get some kinda meaningless degree and get married (arranged of course) to some freak!! All this isn’t a joke…it’s the sour truth when my life comes into picture…there is no peaceful discussion…abuses galore…things are looked at personally and not objectively…everything’s a mess when its put into the world of ‘discussion’. Which is why I’m sick and tired of talking out things anymore…I don’t talk because I want people to agree with me…I talk so that listeners can take what I’m talking about into account and not blindly swat things off as dirt or an ‘immature’ piece of words.

Truly, life isn’t easy at eighteen…its hell in my case. Not being treated like an adult can stress you out to a large extent…and one can surely experience waves of depression. Do i sound like a therapist or something!!??

Parents complain that their eighteen-year-olds talk to their friends with great glee… but to their immediate and extended family in a very distant or ‘unconcerned’ manner…

Now, have they tried to UNDERSTAND why this happens? NO, they haven’t, because they consider their accusations and the reasons behind them as the ultimate and final truth…Why the above phenomenon happens is because, friends treat these eighteen-year-olds ‘with respect to their AGE’ whereas parents and relatives treat them as ‘little children’ incapable of being a part of mature discussions. Age isn’t all that great a thing…but it does make a considerable difference when a ‘parent-daughter/son’ relationship comes into picture.
Freedom, is a highly talked-about controversial topic of discussion when parents and their teenagers come into picture.
Alright, lets forget the physical freedom, by which, I mean, going out, loafing with friends etc etc…
Lets talk about freedom of speech among parents and their teenagers…why can’t there be room for atleast that…and if there is…why can’t explosive reactions from the parent’s side, which pressurize and corner their teenagers even more, be avoided…phew…
The sad part is, that there are still some families out there… where, if the teenage daughter/son talks about considering a sip of a Bacardi Breezer(bah!), the parents explode as if he/she has just lost his/her virginity or something…They love making mountains out of molehills!!

When you consider your parents capable of discussion, that means you respect them, which is what they fail to encompass. I talked to my parents about a corrupt administration which accused hardworking students of eating up the profits of a college’s cultural fest. I said that a change has to be made because nonsense cannot be tolerated for ages…atleast when it comes to me…
I was surprised by their piece of advice which was so self-centered…their best advice was to get out of the situation and go elsewhere and to not even think of challenging an authority…they even said that I would be incapable of doing so…

This added fuel to the fire in me!! I felt a challenge coming my way…something I wanted to prove to them…something which can be done with unity…but they even accuse my friends of turning their backs on me…all a mere assumption and a way of letting me swat off the idea of challenging crap and controversy…

I, as an individual do not take drastic measures for anything….except when I’m angry…my friends and I would handle a problem like the one mentioned above with some amount of common sense and not with the boiling blood of the youth of today!! Slow and steady….but not stagnating of course! We would be aware of the consequences of our actions. We aren’t hot-blooded, carried-away-by-films kinda numbskulls…We do think, and use our grey-matter quite often!!


Anyway to kill the negativity…
There is an All-India National Open Mock being held by LST!! Which I’m planning to give…kinda exciting…
And then there’s some shopping I’m going for….finally…I haven’t shopped for myself in ages!!!!

Cheerio!!