MY BROTHER SWAPNIL!!!

I’ve just been to this birthday bash of my kid brother swapnil’s who turned 10 today!An age suitable enough to drop thoose garish bayblades,dross plastic cartoons & sissy dolls aside(with skateboards and gadgets taking their place) and gear up for big things.Probably football or Cricket.I’ll say football as it has grown more trendy theese days.Sport isnt only a sport afterall.It’s a tool for doing all thoose supposedly kool things in this world.It’s a medium to energise and accentuate theese already in your face trends.But not big enough for kids to stop being kids.Or so i have observed for obvious reasons.I’ve always loved kids and almost every kid i’ve come across is fond of me.This friendship,this love and this fun and frolic in their company has always been mutual.Or maybe im a kid myself.I like to call myself a man kid.Even my friends think im still a kid.I’ve always loved kids as i often think of ‘em as cuter and littler versions of our own selves.Little angels exempted of malicious thoughts that incesantly reverberate in our dingy mind, often consuming us with their abominable filth .You can always see some part of yourself in every kid.Wether its in their obstreperous way of expressing joy,their adamant ways while fighting and arguing,however petty the issues might be or be it in their honesty to lie.

On the flip side,ive observed an aspect of today’s kids besides the fact that their agility and ebulience is unaparallelled.Its that they’re growing up too fast.And by growing up too fast i do not mean their ways of odiously following kool trends or overuse of technology or for that mater their curiosity for the opposite sex,simply being eclectic in theese matters.For that has ever been the case.It’s in the manner in which theese birthdays are celebrated,the way they play,often in pin drop silence.The discipline inherent and an integral part of them.Their innocuous grasp of issues and the startling maturity they show.For often my honey pie swapnil understands things i dont.The most important advice i take is often from him.NO KIDDING!!!He is infact one of my chief sources of inspiration.Wether its the way he organizes his cupboard(mine is pretty squalid still!!) or wether its d way he keeps his room clean(mine is a compelte topsy turvy mess!) or simply the way he scores in his exams comin out all trumps,passing out with flying colours(i often get kts!!) and his determination towards life @ such a tender age.It’s nowehere redolent of my own childhood.I mean i didn’t even know how to tie my shoelaces when i was his age!!.i’d done theese crazy things lik feeding a doggie tablets of hajmolas(a bitter sweet pill) due to which he soon turned mentally ill the following day landing me into a sea of troubles and an ocean of gaalis!keeping my stinkin socks near girl’s benches or hiding lizards in friends bags!i was a total pain in the a##.But kids today are no kids,or maybe theyre paving way for adults to behave sensibly.Maybe they are acting adults so that adults wake up and start acting themselves.Maybe their understanding is a shocking reminder for us to stop fighting.Maybe the love we see in their eyes is a lesson being taught to us to stop hating with prejudices and malevolence in our hearts and start loving unconditionally.Kids today often grow up at homes where parents fight and go to schools were carelessness is a daily practice.When they turn on thoose idiot boxes the first question they often ask is which train got bombed or which city destroyed!.Often when they see an airplane in the sky we have to spill our hearts out explaining to them that it’s not going to crash into their homes.Often when they go to schools they have to be told teacher’s arent on strike today.In an age of eating delectable chocolates,studying carelessly and having all the hapiness and fun in this world we’re forcing such a doomed fate on our own kids!if this is the case its commiserated in its totality as there can be no bigger pity than this for ive always believed human beings are human beings after 60 and angels till they turn fifteen(its not 18 anymore!Lol)but they’re truly something else in between!

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