My Personal Grid

One of my friends said “Hey, I liked your post… I think you should talk about your grid and where one falls” I was like “Yes, can be done but…. It might be too personal for me or the other person”. Then comes the savior ‘Bollywood’- “All characters in this film are fictional and any resemblance to any person living or dead is co-incidence”. LOL... Well, this exercise will put me at a risk of exposure to the reader, but yeah I’m not a saint I will not tell you all (this will be just a movie trailer).

As said earlier I come across a lot of people in my life, and have never stopped myself from knowing them. So, let’s start with the day I was born (way back), I came in contact with my family, trust me at times I feel I am not anybody they would have wanted in their lives. Okay jokes apart, yes I am very different from my parents, they are simple people with simple needs and expectations in life and me definitely not SIMPLE. I love them, care for them & do it my entire life, maybe tuned to do so you will say but I would say by choice. I love to do it. They actually taught me to love and care unconditionally.

Now, moving to the next section of life where we meet the external world relatives (won’t touch that part, by choice) and friends (lovely people who come to your life to make a change without knowing). Well I have not had many friends in life (please don’t count FB friends & acquaintances). I came across my first true friends when I was at school, unknowingly they became a part of my life. Discussing SRK to just any problems in our teenage life to our crushes, we could not stay away from each other for a day. We parted our ways on small issues, call it my arrogance or her childish behavior we didn’t talk to each other for years, I really don’t regret because it taught me the biggest lesson in my life never take things for granted. Today, we can laugh at it.

One of my friends asked me dude seriously how did you manage to be friends with that guy ever, he is just not like you and me. I just smiled and thought not like you, but yes some part of me is like him. The child in me wants to be like him doing the silliest things, show off how much I can eat and the way I can walk the ramp (none of you will ever see me walking down the ramp, ha ha). I just love the way a friend of mine calls me “Moto” every time I call him and I tell him dude I am not fat (at least not now) and the two of us would not leave any chance to pull the leg of our friend who I think has become a few inches taller by now and she would love it and the next chance we three get together has just to be even more fun.

Another thing which has been confirmed by two of my friends recently, I am a man’s soul trapped in a girl’s body, I know this is super sexist but truly I find it difficult to connect to most women. I feel all my girlfriends are like me, away from societal norms, have their own voice and I love each one of you for that. I have these friends who will do crazy things with me without the slightest thought of “why”, because the answer is known to both of us “because I just wanna do it”. Then not to mention I also have a friend who makes me think beyond what I thought I am (introspection aided).

I can keep writing about it with so many people who have made a difference to me in their own way, but either it would become too interesting or too boring (both of them are not good for sure). All the people I spoke about or didn’t speak about help me be who I am and make me learn more about myself every day. Thanks to one and all for being in my life.