Sab badal gya hai!

 Sab badal gaya hai!

Means everything has changed & When I say that I mean it this time- from the core of my heart. I started writing this blog when I couldn’t stand myself to be 30. This number had been playing in my head for so many years and I was just going gaga over how It was such a phantom for me & yet it arrived and just passed away. I freaked out, cut some extra cakes, wrote a blog about it and that was enough, I thought!

Turns out, it wasn't !

We are called an adult after 18. But that's such a sham & I don’t think there is any such number which can justify the level of changes or rather complete upheavals that come with growing up!

Change is inevitable! Bleh! Bluh! Blah!

Yeah I know, everybody knows.

But who in this huge wide world prepares us for this !

Who prepares us to experience that one fine day, we’ll just wake up and our favourite ice cream flavour will no longer feel like a hug and we'll start reading its label if there was vegetable oil in it.

Who prepares us to experience that the distant chachi/mami/masi we used to adore as a child is not the perfect human being we thought she was!

To experience that the one friend we used to share our life with will now live miles apart and we’ll meet a different version of them every few years!

To experience that our super parents will turn old and they will need our help! Us idiots who didn’t even know how to tie our shoe lace will make decisions for them!

To wake up to that peculiar back/ knee pain every time we get out of bed.

To be scared of our favourite rajma chawal because our gut no longer tolerates it.

To be the person who prefers coconut water over cold drinks. 

To live in a world where you’re no longer a fan of your favourite superstar. Like there was a time when your eyes used to sparkle watching them on screen and now you think they lack acting skills.

To live in a world where you think you are insane for loving too much for this super practical world!

To be in a situation when you hate the ones who used to worship!

To not be able to even cry out loud because that will make you seem weak!

To live in a world where Zakir Khan thinks women can’t earn their own money, I mean the one man girls thought really understood them!!!!

To live in a world with duties to fulfill and people who rely on us!

Is it scary? Yes hell a lot scary!

We so-called grownup kids, who want to sleep a little extra every morning, are actually the adults who sometimes wake up at 6 am on a sunday to have their morning shots so that the regret of not doing it all doesn’t creep in.

We recalculate our finances in our head and skip on buying those new heels not because we don’t have enough but because we think there are bigger, more important expenses. 

The other day , I was talking to a friend of mine  about his father’s health and with a very sad deep tone he said that his father is recovering as of now but the doctor doesn't think that he will live much longer.

Who in the damn world prepares us for this????

We don’t want this INEVITABLE!

If this is what being smart is , we want to be naive! Really naive again!

Never signed up for this!!!!

P.S. The picture is of a 9g protein-packed, sugar-free salted caramel ice cream held by a 30-year-old girl who, when asked at the MEVAD ICE-CREAM CART in 2003 if she wanted a cone or custard, would reply—'Both.'


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