Confused about your identity???
Well if yes then that’s what we have in common…
I live in India...I love it here…It suits me…at least most of the time…J
I don’t stay in the typical part of India that they usually show in Bollywood…
You wouldn’t see any lush paddy fields or roads filled with vendors and street food just
about everywhere around here…
I have to admit that traffic jammed roads are here aplenty… But you stop noticing it after a while..
Its fun to be here..comfortable…You have your family.. your friends…
But sometimes I just wonder how do I fit in here??
When I was a child I wouldn’t miss a single episode of I dream of Jeanie and Small Wonder and then in my teens all those Hollywood Romcoms that I simply adore and kept watching again and again..
After years and years of reading Regency and Medieval romances I can actually imagine those characters interacting and living in that time period…It is so fascinating…Its like a ritual of mine to research that time period and get the actual facts about it and not the glossed over version given in the books…though I have to admit I LOVE those glossed over parts…I am a kind of weird realistic cynical secret romantic at heart...And just as I am deeply engrossed in that world , it goes all topsy turvy on me…Reality strikes…Dealing with grumpy teachers all day….Listening to rude policemen yelling at you or other people in their cars or bikes around you cursing at you because you are going too fast or too slow on your bike or even if you are genuinely trying to wait at a signal when the lights turn yellow..Its like a crazy edition of Fast and the Furious every morning here…
ROMANCE…..well the little I talk about it the better...
It will be a rarity to find an actual blooming romance here… The young Mills and Boon type at least…Try sitting in a park with your boyfriend and you will be shooed off in a jiffy..or even at a restaurant where you cant even enjoy a single minute as half the time you are wondering if any of your relatives or family friends are there nearby who will hopefully not blab to your parents…
Now that would be bad...Really bad for you…
Even though nowdays some parents say they accept these changes but the ground reality is that parents are still not cool about these kind of relationships even if they deny it…It still is not acceptable in GOOD FAMILIES in India… …
Frustated…confused…and sometimes caught in a web I cant see myself getting out of…that’s how I feel…
Living a western life in Virtual reality and a semi Eastern one in the Real version of it…
Hmmmm….Maybe one day I will know how to straighten my topsy turvy world..
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