BEING SOMEBODY

There are times when you wish you could rewind the cassette named “life” and alter a few events in the past – convert some frowns to smiles, some wrongs to rights, some delays to some timely actions, some hatred to love, some gibberish to something significant and something incomplete to something complete. In such a case, these “somes” and “somethings” and “undos” and “redos” will be never ending! Why isn’t our life as uncomplicated as computers? Why don’t we have certain keys like Ctrl+Alt+Del or backspace or Esc? If you take a wrong step simply erase or delete it, if you have had enough of something/someone dump it into the recycle bin and if you suddenly realize you need that particular thing (person!) again, just restore it/him/her. Oh how we would all love to have a recycle bin around! Why can’t you just save something that you are just half way through and open it later and continue with it! And make different files and folders for everything and classify everyone and everything accordingly. (Well, do you really want to be that organized, are people that easy to understand so as to pigeonhole them in specific groups - naaah!)

This feeling is utterly momentary – if our life were as banal and trouble-free it would be mechanical and monotonous. Emotions will lose their importance because we would want everything to be just perfect and pleasurable. Expressions will be restricted to laughter and smiles; there would hardly be any exhilaration, surprises, anger, fear, suspicion, sorrow, jealousy et al. Utopia will just be a nine days wonder and it will start bothering us real soon. We have to spice up our routine and make the most of every single moment. For us, things happen only once, life happens just once and nothing recurs (cliched but the truth); and it is often the case that we don’t know what we have got it till it’s gone. Utopia is surreal and we tend to long for something that we don’t have so trust me when everything is so idyllic we would yearn for imperfection and chaos.

Come on, we are human beings we cant live without arguments, challenges, envy, hardships – we undoubtedly want to live without all these but practically we need them as a source of motivation to lead our lives. They say nobody is perfect and we don’t want to be a nobody! We are somebody. I am somebody.