Background : You are preparing for your board exams, tired and weary, you feel like giving up. So the best way to keep us motivated....
They Said : This is the last time and after that the world is yours..
We realized : "One Last Time" what a joke!!!! For many of us this one last time never seems to end, be it the certification courses at office to keep us updated or the management degrees. The world is not mine yet.
Background : You have friends from your same batch or class residing nearby, under the very nose of Theirs....
They Said : Look!!!! his/her doors are shut, he/she must be revising for the nth time..what's your status?
We know : That guy is not revising, he/she must be dreaming about his/her's latest crush, or reading the latest Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew novel hidden right between the pages of their academic book. We know people can be very pretentious.
Background : On a lazy Sunday afternoon you are lazying around....
They Said : At your age i used to support my entire family and yet study, you people have got all the comforts in this world..
We chuckle : And remember the joke and wish we could say something similar
Father to Son : "You should be ashamed,When Abraham Lincoln was of your age, he used to walk ten miles every day to get to school."
Son to Father : "Well, when he was your age, he was the president".
Background : After a heated discussion....
They Said : We never had the guts to reply back..
We are at our wits end : What, we are supposed to do if you guys didn't have the guts or were born without it. In fact we were not present then, to vindicate your claim. But aren't you happy that we don't have an organ missing.
Background : Any occasion....
They Said : Come, seek your elders blessing by touching their feet..
We wonder : how this can be scientifically proven, that blessings and well wishes traverses via the medium of touch and only through feet? but luckily like everything else around us this process is being marginalized, whereas in earlier days(Mahabharat times) the point of contact used to be the feet of the sender and head of the receiver where the victim had to lie on the ground, these days the contact has shifted to the senders knees so much less stooping for the receiver. The day would soon come when there will be touch less transmission, which many believe has already started.
Background : You are spending some valuable time on your laptop/PC ....
They Said : You guys are not at all socially and physically active..
We try to reason: What does being socially active mean? meet up with like minded people after work, discuss other people's woes and their short comings, or wrong govt policies..No Sir!!! we are happy with our virtual social networking. As far as physical inactivity is concerned, this may be not entirely untrue, but gyming is a good alternative, is it not?.
Background : The recession is on and there are unconfirmed news of sacking across the industry ....
They Said : Why didn't you apply for a govt job? You could have got pension later..
We forgive them : For their relative ignorance over the current job scenario. We are not the ones who started the fire. And pension!!! as if the sole purpose of job is getting a pension.
Background : The last one is only for bachelor men ....
They Say : If it is like this now, I wonder what will happen once he gets married..
CUT THE CRAP!!!! : Stop this barrage of Emotional Attyachar, but it is you who want us to get married.
