Random thoughts _137

IRL

All of us “FRIENDS” lovers will abide by Monica Gellar’s dialogue!! And even if you are neither a FRIENDS lover nor know Monica Gellar, this dialogue will be apt nonetheless!! With all of us living a "Like" worthy life on social media, it need not be the complete truth In real life!!

All through childhood I couldn’t wait to finish up the education and get started with work!! I just wanted to grow up all life!! And now that life has happened, I don’t know why would I even want this on anyone!!! From paying bills to graying hairs to growing waists (or not for those who work out) to stressing about things: growing up isn’t as rosy as independence and freedom that I anticipated!!

The joy and smile of salary credit is replaced with the realisation of the ECS deduction scheduled in the coming week!! Every decision from what to cook to what to buy to keeping tabs on payment dates (even with technological help) to planning and staying in budget, phew, life is stressful!! 

These are just few of those things that causes worry!! Sometimes its the major things of how to survive, how to deal with the mental health,  how to barely make yourself get out of bed and deal with the complexity called LIFE!!

Each of us have our own worries, each of us deal with a lot of issues in our personal life in our own manner.. There's a very common story of potato, egg and coffee.. If we put potato, egg and coffee and leave it to boil for sometime we observe that the water softens the potato, hardens the egg while coffee imparts its flavor in the water and turns it to coffee..This is exactly what troubled times do to us!! Some of us would have been tough but tough times softens us.. Some of us would have been soft but the tough times toughens us.. While few others change the situation and make it better!!

This is what life teaches us, sometimes we need to soften, sometimes toughen and most of the times change the situation.. But amidst all this life lessons let us always try to stay a kid at heart because I haven't seen anyone as genuinely happy as a kid!!

And here I am with a younger version of me in tow who keeps checking his height against me and cribbing everyday that he’s not as big as me!! When I say I wished he remains a kid it’s because I don’t want him to be pressured by life, I don’t want him to lose his innocence, I don’t want him to stop finding joys in simple things!! Because when he stays a child, he brings out the happiness quotient in others!! And when he grows up I for sure am gonna send him this scene from Friends!! Because no matter how much it sucks, we end up loving (if not then definitely living)  it!! 

Heres a reminder to all: Don’t forget to find your simple joys amidst adulting IRL!!