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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Here I sit...




Here I sit, in the back of my parents’ car; my dad is driving, my mom is sitting in the passenger seat, I’m sitting in the back seat like a good boy.
It’s a warm, fuzzy, wonderful feeling.
A few minutes ago, I felt a sudden, inexplicably wonderful regression to my childhood, when such scenes were everyday.
Here I sit, in the back of my parents’ car; with my earphones on, feeling like what Soundgarden would say, ‘Blow up the outside world!’
Here I sit, in the back of my parents’ car; with my earphones, listening to loud Linkin Park and mellow Green Day, just like the teenaged boy who I never grew up from.
A few minutes ago, I just wanted to write this down, to remember this feeling. It is a good feeling. I feel like a boy.

I feel like a boy.

So I whipped out my computer.
You know when you open up a laptop in the backseat of a car, GT Road is suddenly not a single bit as smooth as you remembered it.
The sun was in my eyes, from the right window, just a while ago; there’s a pillow on the seat next to me. I grabbed it, slid down the right window a little, stuck a little piece of the fabric of the pillowcase outside the sliver of an opening, and pushed the window right back up.
There.
Sun problem solved.
I tap my mom on the shoulder, and point out the wonderful thing I’ve just done. She smiles, my dad asks what I’m talking about, she tells him. He smiles too.
I feel like such a kid!
There’s a grin wider than my face on my lips.
This is so stupid.
Why does this amuse me?

Here I sit, in the back of my parents’ car; and now Trapt scream their lungs out.

I’m going to Delhi!
I’m going to meet my friends! This is such a ‘yay’ moment!
Well there’s the slightly serious matter of an interview to get through before all that.
There’s a printout of all the key points in this year’s budget on the seat beside me.
When did I grow up so much?

Here I sit, in the back of my parents’ car; I’m reading about the budget, and about Mahindra Satyam’s merger.
Wait, wait! Back to the regressively (is that even a word?) wonderful moment, wait no, wonderfully regressive moment(yes that's better) I had some time ago.

Here I sit, in the back of my parents’ car; Chester Bennington’s sweet melodious voice slowly starts singing ‘My December’ in my ears…

And I’m a kid again, when I still used to wonder what Chester was so sad about…I didn’t know then…

Wait, wait!
I’m a kid again…

EDIT - uploaded from my phone, yay technology!





9 comments:

  1. really nice !
    short and a conveying read :)

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  2. You are as good as it gets!! Good luck and enjoy the capital!

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  3. Wait, wait.. how could you forget to play that “roll your window up…roll your window down…” game. Overall nice impromptu, amusing writing :)

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  4. You ll always be a 'boy' for me, and what you ve written or rather the way you ve written is wow.While driving back from Delhi on 25th,the scene changed.... you on the driver seat, me at the back seat and I was thinking.....my boy has grown up and both the feelings are great.
    mom

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