Monday, January 4, 2010

Advise

Ever wondered .. What would you ADVISE your younger self if you get to meet them??

You never know what will trigger your thoughts or reactions but there are times when you just look at something and you travel into a different world altogether. When I was younger, I don't remember if I ever had any affinity towards books, reading/studying was kind of a boring task which I had to finish before Papa noticed and started scolding. Though I always liked reading short stories and would always finish reading all the Chapters of our English Literature Curriculum, I never realized, I would like reading. And now just getting into a Book store makes me happy and lifts my mood no matter how bad I am feeling... :D

One such incident made me read a Book Title - What would you advise your younger self if you get to meet them?? I don't know why but I didn't pick the book to check its contents.. I think wasn't prepared to explore it. The Line still boggles in my head making me wonder what I would do or anybody else would do if they meet their younger and immature versions...

Shweta, 3 Year Old, A cute little girl wearing a Navy Blue Strappy Frock with White lace on the neck and the hem and a matching little handbag.. Oh I always loved to dress up. :D Knowing myself with Kids I would simply pick her up and kiss her and adore her... She never talked to strangers but was always a good listener so I would tell her stories or rather incidents that will happen in her future and see her eyes enlarge at every unfolding twist.. Oh Cho Chweet.. :D

Shweta, 6 Year Old, A girl with a Lady Like attitude, angry most of the time on seeing all the attention shift to her new born twin brothers, I would go and hold her hand and tell her that she loves them and she is the one who prayed to have them. Ask her to look at both of them looking so cute and fragile while they sleep and how looking at them makes her love them even more. The way she is happy and excited to have them and ready to pick them up at every little chance she gets, everyone else in her family also wants to do the same. That doesn't mean they have forgotten her but they have got new members in the family to shower their love along with hers. I would then kiss her and leave her to ponder over what I said. I know she will do that and will sigh after she accepts the fact that no matter what she loves her brothers like any of her precious possessions.

Shweta, 12 Year Old, A girl as lost as anyone could be. Always looks around as if she is in some Alien world even though she had known her fellow classmates right from the day she first came to this school, she still doesn't know them and is baffled to see them grow and get ready for world she thinks she ll never belong to. I will give her a Jaadu ki Jhappi and tell her that everything will be fine and there will be a day when she ll feel wanted among the people around her because she ll choose and include them in her life and cherish them all along. Also, as much as she loathes studying now, she ll miss it and she ll be blessed with a mentor who ll develop her outlook making her life worth living.

Shweta, 15 Year Old, A girl who is always too scared in her heart from every possible person of opposite sex but pretends otherwise and irritates her classmates by being rude. Ill sit beside her for a tête-à-tête.. give her courage and advise her constantly to share what she is scared off with her family and seek them.. their love and support. And assure her that things will be fine and every wrong deed is punished and she has to choose if SHE wants to punish or leave it to God.

Shweta, 18 Year Old, A making of a Young lady out in a new world .. away from the so called secure walls of school days and discipline, On her own.. exploring herself, choosing her friends. I would just sit at a far distance and observe and smile at the developments she is making because she already advised herself then what I would have advise her now.

Shweta, 21 Year Old, A Fresher out of college into her first job, more confident than she ever was, proud of what she managed to do with herself in her graduation years.. ready to take on the world with a little bit excitement and a little bit nervousness . I would meet and shake her hand and make her feel respected for her education and behaviour and not checked out for her looks. I will tell her to trust her intuition and instincts in all possible ways and situations and take up challenges that come her way more sportingly and not to loose hope so easily. I will tell her "She has more to herself than she thinks she does".

Shweta, 24 Year Old, A lady kind of settled too much in her job and scared to move on and take up ventures. I would go and give her a piece of someone's mind (not mine because I still don't have the right one.. :D) and tell her to be more ambitious and hardworking. Will ask her to train herself for an MBA course, prepare and crack entrance exams and not just sit and stay lost in her fantasy world. Things don't fall in your lap lady... you have to stretch yourself and grab them.

Shweta, Now, You tell what I should tell myself or may be I ll wait for my future self to travel through a Time Machine and meet me.. :D