7/17/2012

Teens...


..........Every number marked on the scoreboard of life brings with it a certain set of  eccentricities. At one stage we’re drooling , laughing, throwing up and tripping over at random, much to the amusement of people around us. Once this age passes, we realise that we shouldn’t have drunk so much the previous night .

But indulging in crazy, drunken acts is something that most of you might have to wait for, until you’re as old as me at-least .
OK.. no.. i am not that old but  I’m talking about teenagers.

When I look at the teens of today, I can’t help but think about the nature of time and how the shift into adults suddenly alters their priorities. I think for about two seconds, after which the teens’ cargo pants catch my attention which has enough pockets to hold the entire cast of a karan-johar movie (dog included)
When it comes to hairstyles, the gelled look is dominant, with styles ranging from ‘I look like a mafia don ’ to  anything in your imagination.  And that’s just the guys.

The girls, as always, are smarter in that they actually look older than they are. This gives rise to awkward situations, such as when a dear friend back in hyderabad spotted an interesting specimen (he later termed her as a BHBB – Badi Hokar Babe Banegi). The sight of her brought about several thoughts in his ex-teenager mind, thoughts about acts that are illegal in all civilised countries.
Yes, he was thinking of using her as a suicide bomb to blow up the assembly ... All because he was stuck in traffic for hours due to a political meeting . My friend is full of shit really. An air-strike is way more effective than a suicide bomb.




Anyway, I see all these teenagers with the same bored expression on their faces, hanging out at the same old malls, and my sympathies go out to them. For this is the generation that has never even heard the electronic beep of a dial-up modem, never enjoyed a movie on a 50 buck ticket and never, watched DD Sapthagiri for more than 5 minutes.
My generation thought about how India should be developed from the socio-economically backward era, to a glorious era where Shahrukh Khan did not have an ugly block of hair sticking out from behind his neck. We couldn’t do much about his nose though.

But can these these young soldiers lead us into the future where, the head is held high and the fridge is never without beer?
I asked this question to a few teen cousins i have and have been trying to decrypt their replies ever since.

“im a rtrd n cnt typ 4 nutz lolllzz v rockkzzz“

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