Bachpana

I was in my 1st year in college when this friend of mine came upto me and said “Have you seen ‘Jab We Met’? If you haven’t, you should! You must! ” She had more than the usual excitement while asking me that question and so I replied with the same excitement, “Why? What’s so special?” and she was all “Geet, the heroine, she is just like you. I mean I was thinking about you the whole time she was on the screen though it was just for the first half of the movie.”
Well obviously, after this I immediately downloaded and watched the movie and what do you know! She was exactly like me or you can say that at that time I was exactly like her… very forward, immature and fun. She laughs all the time, lives in her own dreams and doesn’t give a damn to what others think and most importantly she listens to her heart.

But the second half of that movie got me thinking. “Learn maturity with time or life will teach it to you the hard way” is something I’ve heard from a lot of people. For me. Is it true? You see, I could never get myself to be serious. Unless atleast one person is fun, the conversation is boring. I sure as hell don’t want to be a part of a serious conversation.

So coming back to the second half of the movie, it got me thinking. Again, as filmy as I was, I thought, may be a similar thing would happen to me. I will fall in love with a guy who will not value me as much as I deserve, he’ll hurt me really bad. Then someone very dear, whom I have never given much importance in my life and who secretly loves me very very much, will come to my rescue. I will realize his importance and it’ll be a happy ending. Told you I am filmy!

I never counted on two things. First, reality is much more twisted than any twist that you can ever see in a movie. Second, if someone gets you out of your problems, you never get mature. You are just like a child, who fell and then her parents came to pick her up get her up and running. You become mature when you learn to solve your own problems and you get yourselves out of every damn pothole you fall into.

So with my usual going on life, this big pothole came, infact the biggest one yet. And let me tell you, that movie stuff never happens. Atleast for me it never happened. No Aditya came to get me out of that mess. I got up and became my own savior. May be not really a savior but I got myself out of it. But it gave me a very big learning. I am independent. I can handle stuff on my own without waiting for help. I am not a damsel in distress, rather I am the hero of the movie who gets himself out of all the mess.

But I am still not mature. I have improved, sure, but still not crossed the passing mark! :D

Frankly, I don’t want to ever be mature, but let’s see!!! :)