Are we there yet?
As determined as I was to become the first female President of the country back when I was a kid, I am as clueless today about what I want to be. Back then, I believe, we all were asked, “Betaa, badey ho kar kya ban-na chahte ho?”(What do you want to be when you grow up?). The answer to it flowed as smooth as silk with no signs of hesitation or self-doubt. As if we knew ourselves to the core and had perfectly evaluated our then present and future skills. It was more like declaration and I would’ve also written it down somewhere and signed on it, just that I was still undecided about how my signature should look like.
Anyways, today if you ask me if I have achieved what I dreamt of back then, I would not know what to say. Have I grown up already? Is this when my achievements are judged? Shouldn’t I be getting more time? I would not know how to tell you that I don’t know what I want to become… where I want to go… what I want to do.
Will I be able to answer it, say, 20years from now?
Or may be I still have to clearly recall my real dream, real ambition as a kid. To be happy and enjoy life as it comes… and also learn how to sign the same way every time!
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hmm. maybe you’ll want to do different things at various points in time..and maybe you’ll do them too, exceedingly well?
To me sounds like you are having your mid life crisis way toooooo early :P
I still feel like this :(
Btw - reminds me that my sis used to answer that Q with ‘miss india’ and i with ‘a king’ :)
‘Have I grown up already?’ -wish someone else cud answer that q huh?