Decided I want to spam the blog today...feeling particularly literary...
A comment that i wrote in another person's blog set me thinking... i was writing about a movie that i liked (Mozhi - not particularly great.. but not bad at all) and how I really liked the hero... Now me being me - I have an obssessive tic that makes me need to know all things about people I like.. so i went and did the good old google on him and realized that he was younger than me... now i know that is a possbility and people have been born since 1980...
but somehow when i was younger (and that was apparently a long time ago)i always had this comfortable feeling that people who were famous/rich/plain better-off - were all older than me and hence I had a chance to get there...so when i was 16 i used to idolize a 25 year old Pete Sampras and feel good about it.. now the Roger (Go Nadal!) is 3 years younger than me! It really bothers me... I was born into a family where I was the youngest by faaar (the smart ones might get a connection to 'kutty').. and now I am having crushes on people younger than me.. tis a sobering thought...
Another thing that gives me a sense of perspective now is the fact that I am able to have conversations with friends about Nappy Rashes and baby poo - I have friends who have babies - it means now that we would necessarily need to stop behaving like babies - in public atleast..
1 comment:
Hey,welcome to the blog space! No harm in these harmless crushes, but yes,the thought that we are older than many others is not just sobering, but depressing, esp around b'days! My kid cousin (she is 5.5 years my junior) got married, and had a kid in record 10 months! Sigh! Like Floyd sings "The sun is the same in a relative way, but we're older"!
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