When you are in school you have God like complex & say to yourself - “One day I will conquer this World”. You just can’t wait to get out of school. But once you start working- Oh! Oh! Reality hits you. Soon you are bored of work & need a CHANGE (Obama’s favourite word). Your parents’ nag you to get married and you say to yourself may be this is the CHANGE I need. You get married but then honeymoon phase wears out and you tell yourself may be motherhood/fatherhood is the CHANGE I need. You love it for a while but you are bored again.
You again say to yourself may be having a new car will CHANGE things. You get yourself a car and name it “The Black Beauty” or something weird. You refuse to tell your spouse why you named it like that and secretly enjoy that your spouse is going nuts thinking who “The Black Beauty” was.
Soon your life revolves around your new car and worrying about children’s future. As soon you children’s work life gets settled down you need CHANGE again. So you start nagging your children to get married & tell yourself “Shit I am acting like my own mother or father or brother”. Finally your children give in to your demands. Then surprise! surprise! - you are tired of your son-in-laws & daughter-in-laws. You need a CHANGE again and you so want to fix all the mistakes that you made with your children. So you nag your children to have children.
As soon as you have your grandchildren you drive the whole world nuts by telling them their stories & everyone is assured that they will get a Christmas card with your grandchildren’s picture on it. You tell your co-workers how adorable your grandchildren are but unlike you the whole world thinks your grandchildren are maniacs & need to see a child psychologist. Let me add: you always think your grandchildren are pale even if they are obese.
Your grandchildren love you because you will feed them till they explode and your house is the only place where they can truly express themselves (i.e. break anything). You can’t wait to retire & spend more time with your grandchildren. As soon as you retire you realize your grandchildren are really maniacs & need to see a psychiatrist. You tell your children how they have done a pathetic job in raising them when it was actually you who spoiled them with latest games, toys and by giving into their non-sense demands.
In the meantime, you are getting tired of your spouse’s nagging and say to yourself it would nice to share the roof with a 3rd creature plus you need a CHANGE. You miss The Black Beauty & decide to get yourself “The Black Beauty 2”. You finally tell your spouse the story behind “The Black Beauty”. She finally knows it was this teacher you had crush on & that you couldn’t tell her earlier because you couldn’t break the cult. After very long time you and your spouse actually “TALK” & honeymoon phase returns (don’t mean it in a wrong way). But soon you are bored again & start to emotionally blackmail your grandchildren by telling them that you want to see their marriage before you go- as if that guarantees ticket to heaven.
*Bottom line: We can never be CONTENT in life & want CHANGE happening all the time. All we need is - to always do something new every now & then and that keeps us going.
SO KEEP CHANGING WITH CHANGE!
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