Ageing Blues

I am fast approaching my 20th bday and everybody has been reminding me how old I am getting. Mom constantly telling me how all her friends tell her "how time flies! Our twiki is turning 20!!". My friends collectively mourning the departure from teens.

What is this about leaving the teens, getting old and stuff? I mean isn’t it something inevitable, bound to happen anyways. Why can't people accept the fact quietly and without the entire drum beating.

I dont have issues with growing up (as long as i m on the right side of the 20s that is!). I mean i sometimes think those teen years were actually a pain. People manipulating you, leading you on, fooling you all the time. I mean yes, two years back, I really used to get influenced by those Preity Zinta ads, showing how shiny and voluptuous her hair became after using a particular brand of shampoo. Now looking back at that time I feel how immature I was. How my opinions and ideas weren’t really my own but so heavily influenced by others.

With age comes experience. But again this is an unending process. Because when after few years, I look back to where I am today, I‘ll again feel I was immature in some other aspect.(I still cant help swooning over that sexy cell endorsed by Abhishek Bachchan!) So basically, ageing really isn’t decay but a process of growth.

The people who can be often heard lamenting their adding years and complaing "how I wish I was 25 again" are, I think, the ones who have had unfulfilling lives. They were actually too busy battling over getting older and thus weren’t able to really live their lives. And so they want to go back and live those years. Well, wouldn’t it be better to accept this ageing process and do so gracefully? There is always a lot more to do, to see, to learn in life, rather than look back and mourn.

So well, I am going to embrace my 20th bday with full enthusiasm and with the belief that I am actually getting wiser and smarter!