PEELING OFF!
baap | 29 November 2004, 11:27amToday i made a revelation, actually it was a weird revelation....happened at the fag end of the day...sometime around 11:30 PM, but a revelation none-the-less. Before that though, i opted to take to bed unusually early.. as per the norms i have been following for around 3 years of sleeping only after the next day has arrived..time-wise. Before turning off the lights though, i tucked myself in and started reading a book, a children's classic rather...it was given to me by a friend (*long pause). Anyway after reading for about 45 minutes....i turned off the lights and proceeded to sleep. It felt different this time, the sleep that is, i felt "peeled-off"...yeah a term which suits aptly to that situation.
The book which i read made me feel peeled off. No, although it sounds uncannily similiar to the phrase "pissed-off" it isnt...in fact peeled off is something to deal with the other end of the spectrum of human emotion --- positive, peeling off symbolised the layers of stupid adoloscence that i peeled off...I approached the "children's classic" with the intent of compensating for my "lost childhood"...which made me visualize all the things that i did when i was a kid, or the things that i could have done.
I then remembered the time, when me and my cousin's cousin who was far younger than i was at that time...when i was young myself, went around the neighbourhood with our new walkie talkies acting like spies..we went to people's windows and reported on all their activities...
ME: Roger,Charlie, Alpha (Clearly had no idea what it meant, but had to be said to get the "effect"!)...sambar being made at 9:30. Suspicious activity at 2 o clock *Note the reference to time in two different contexts!
CC: (Alpha Bravo Chaplin..) People sitting in front of Television...*Clearly he was a newbie :p BTW...no visual sight of Charlie and Roger...*there was an Alpha?
*legend: cc=cousin's cousin
Anyway we continued doing this till we finally stumbled upon a house wherein a couple was making love...both of us were stunned..i clearly knew what was happennig..cc didn't...i understood then we were invading privacy...*(yeah roight...and seeing people making sambar and watching TV was not?..No actually it wasnt)* ...cc had NO IDEA what the hell was going on..and thought he was on a real spy mission!!! I said ABORT ABORT...to save cc's innocence...but it was too late...the lights were turned on...and all hell broke loose..nakedness spattered all over and innoence along with it...
The point of that story was that..."WOAH...i had a childhood"...not that it was filled with stumbling across acts of love making, although they did come at untimely intervals, but i proceeded to think whether i had any friends...like the ones they show playing in the TATA ad.
There was this one guy called Revanth, he lived in the gound floor and man..this guy was a typical TATA ad kinda friend...we used to go bi-cycling together and playing with our *MY toys..and doing all kinds of stuff. In fact a majority of my childhood memories are with this guy, and i forgot about him totally!!!! I mean totally....this guy according to my current life was so insignificant..WHY? Because i hadnt shared with him any of my secrets...and I HADN'T any then!!! I was so caught up in the belief that one should share "secrets" with other people to make them "significant" friends that i didnt realise that this guy was the ONLY friend i had who was worth remembering in times like these.
Anyway i got fed up with revanth eventually, because he never aged..never grew up. He always was the guy who teased me for farting when he smelt something weird, and always the guy who used to do random stuff like curl up his nostrils and say "altha pithalay- pilthi pithalay"...and i apparently had to GROW UP? Bullshit...
The realisation then dawned upon me was that who was i trying to fool by saying that i didnt have a frikkin childhood? Memories like "love making stumbling while on a imaginary clandestine operation" were more than ENOUGH to sustain a childhood fr a helluva lot of children.
Hence the peeling off...was "fruitful"
PS:...I hope you got that last bit because if i explained it...it just would lose its ingenuity!!!
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1. By Skank | 29 Nov 2004, 1:07pm
I think i know what you may mean.
I just finished 3 Men In A Boat for the 3rd time since I was 8. And i've started Heidi for the second time since i was 10. The lat time i'd read it, i cried.
And dont even get me started on Robin Crusoe with his deserted Island and naked natives.......