Day Dreaming

Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain... give me another chance I want to grow up once again.....

Who wrote these lines I wanna congratulate him/her for saying what 80% of people like me feel... we have had a wonderful life and we don't want to grow up once again because we want to redo what we have done or for that matter we are not sure of whom we are (Though that’s a different story that most of us think we deserved better and could have done a lot of things differently...) but when I listen to these lines what I honestly feel is that growing up was such a beautiful period... fun filled, lots of enthusiasm, excitement, awe that its worth living over and over again. As a kid the concept of "growing up" and becoming someone this world had never seen before was such a big motivation factor... what if!! That’s what my life had been... When I was in standard four.. I clearly remember I wanted to be a bharatnatyam dancer. We had this Dance class in school, Bharatnatyam and I don't remember why or how but for the first bharatnatyam class that I went to I didn’t had those gunghrus with me the next period was just the day after and since I had already not participated in the first group ghunghru dance I had ever witnessed live I just wanted to be the part of the next one.. my mom had some tough time arranging those gunghrus for me I still remember red colored band with three strips of golden tingling ghungrus.. life just changed after that... not that I was the best dancer or gave some stage performance at zonal levels but the next day when I returned from school and my mom as usual made us go for this afternoon siesta I quietly woke up and slipped out of the room , took those ghunghrus out my bag wore them and started walking in the verandah.. With summers at its peak , under the cool shade of guava trees, I started day dreaming as usual what if I am the best bharatnatyam dancer in India.. I imagined that I had just given this perfect dance performance (Doordarshan effect) I folded my hands in a namaskar and with the sound of those ghunghrus magnifying the trance... the golden tinge of my kanjiwaram saari absolutely blindning.I imagined walking down this red carpet thanking my fans who were standing in perfectly neat rows on my either side modestly accepting there well wishes..Ahhha... life was great… perfect infact.. I was this glorious bharatnatyam dancer.. This “ successful dance performance after show thanks scene” repeated for a number of days... lasted for only 10 - 15 mins everyday.. that’s as much time my mom used to take to realize I was not sleeping besides her... but this is one of those infinite number of childhood memories that is etched so clearly that it has become this very small part of me somehow ..

In sixth standard I used to say.. what if I grow up and become one of the selected few female politician.. to become a Member of parliament was my aim of life... yes what if I am an MP? I used to day dream about the "zero hour".. a white ambassdor car driving me to the gates of lok sabha and me this khadi clad female with a round red bindi and a folder of loose A4 sheets in hand walking swiftly through the corridors and discussing welfare of women.. haha.. was part of community service for two years@school

SUPW periods :- aka some useful periods wasted... i dont know bout you guys but I loved the extracurricular activities a lot.. not that I was exceptionally good at them I was infact even below normal.. but when the pressure to excel evaporates you shine... automatically

Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain... give me another chance I want to grow up once again ... just to relive those magical day dreams and out of the world trances

BTW Three Idiots is a movie you simply cannot afford to miss.. Perfect sequel to Taare Zameen par..Enjoyed each and every scene.. Thoroughly. bye bye or now.. Have a nice day