Then and now

The good times and the bad times. From the blissful 12 year old to the (arguably) 20 year old intellectual that Iam. Here's what few things meant to me then and now.

1. Mother then was the perfect friend and someone whom I always used to look up to. Now, she's "that-forever-suspicious-on-me".

2. God was all about the "prasadam" I got in the temple. Now, he's the eternal and absolute, all-pervasive and the ultimate truth.

3. Back then, pen was all I had to unleash my creativity in essay writing competitions. Now, I use it to write love-letters (creative love letters :P ; although the one and only one I wrote in my life was typed in a word document and it served the exact opposite of the intended effect-it must've bored him to death **sigh** )

4. Marks meant the be-all and end-all. Now, I don't give a fart to them.

5. Fashion was restricted to matching hair bands. Now, streaking my hair pink ( a la Avril) doesn't satiate my appetite for fashion.

6. I used to add 5 more years to my age back then. Now, I deduct a year or two :)

7. Only "clean" movies were allowed. Now, I can totally sit through a whole gamut of emotions - silence of the lambs ("horror"), serendipity (boring), desperado ( the scene :P ), the Bourne series (action).

8. Used to go for nancy drew, hardy boys, alice in wonderland...you get the idea...now I go for extremes- M&B's or Shakespeare or Ayn Rand.

9. Used to believe in rhymes:

If I live in Delhi
I need to eat jelly

And shout like a banshee

Now, Ive discovered everything in life isn't exactly in sync and doesn't follow a rhyme and a reason.

10. Wanted to be "something" when "I grow up". Needless to add, I don't really find a purpose or a worthy "goal" in my life anymore.