Happy Times..

Phase change...

So we have this plan of making a family trip to RFC the next morning and I am still sitting before the system till early morning 2!!..doing nothing or say doing everything to escape from tomorrow’s trip. I wanted to visit that place since years and it was always the family trip that was planned. I was very much ok with it, in fact I was excited to the core. But when finally the time has come I am behaving so indifferent. I admit our family is going to have great time there, but lately I have been used to roaming about just with friends and even now I picture myself having fun with my friends at that very same RFC..[I am sick of thinking so!]


Strange how our priorities change without our knowledge right. Earlier the whole world used to revolve only around two people..MOM and DAD! But now they are the last option we are left with when our friends drop out at the final moment from any plan. Though this isn’t strictly a case with me, but I’ve few friends who usually face such circumstances.
With age the bonding with our family weakens and we get more attached with folks of our age i.e. our friends. Sharing everything..from the tiniest to the most grim matters with them. Mean while we don’t bother to realize that the family that loved us as a child still holds the same love and concern for us. Your mom still hopes that you will go over to her and share your day’s happenings as you used to do when you were a school kid, but all that she sees is that as soon as you get back from your college or hostel you stick to that mobile or system of yours sharing your thoughts not with the person just in front of you but with someone somewhere far who too is in the same scenario as you are..


But I guess this entire fad is part of growing up. Even our granny may feel dejected that our mom/dad is taking out more time for their children rather than for their parents. So this feeling is very common to each of us and we experience it in hell different ways at some point or the other. I don’t say that we shouldn’t trek around with our buddies (or with our individual families when we speak about parents). It’s just that there is no harm if at times we hang around with our mom and dad, making them a part of our fun or else we becoming a part of their happy moments which they have been waiting for quite a long time [family gatherings they call]


Guess it’s easy to say all this but tricky to pull off. Because whenever we are with our parents or say elders they cannot actually stop complaining or advising us. And if you are ready to call that entertaining then BRAVO!! you are the kid every parent of a teenager would appreciate to have.
For rest of the kids like me I deduce even the parents have to put in some effort. Like how about they travel back in time to their teenage period. That sounds cool, doesn’t it!?? It will be easy for them to match up with our frequencies then. We can very well feel comfortable in their company. Logically it’s easy to relive the past than envision the future. Genuinely we can’t understand the elders but they can easily understand us as they too have been through our phase some time back. Anyways that option is left with parents. We can’t actually compel that on them. (If done so it may certainly give way to some new misunderstanding.) But the effort has to be made from both sides. Sometimes more by them and sometimes less by us. ;) What matters at the end of the day is that we are part of each others blissful moments and all that we want is a happy family!!