Of Growing Up and MLIC!

There are days when you want to do nothing. Absolutely nothing. Just eat, sleep and repeat the routine. I thought I was the only one suffering from the most extreme bout of lethargy, when my friend, Ana came with a theory to my rescue. A theory called - 'The Mid Life Inertia Crisis (MLIC)'. Mid life crisis because you're stuck at the crossroads between not wanting to grow up and having to grow up. A time when everything changes. The only good thing that comes out of it is that you start loving and respecting your parents more than ever . That was about Mid Life. Actually, I was arguing that it should be Mid Life because, well, you're just a little over 20, so Mid Life sounds really OLD! But then, Ana argued saying that looking at our current lifestyles we'd be lucky to get to the other side of 40. True. And the Inertia bit in the theory was the lethargy of being comfortable in our current lives to that extent that we don't want any change to pull us out of so-called-comfort zone (e.g: marriage!)

I don't know how many of you actually got the theory. If you didn't, let me know, I'll get you in touch with Ana.... she's looking for more bakras to validate her theory!

Just before writing this post, I was feeling so lazy that I thought I'd sleep it out, but some brainwave asked me to listen to songs from Wake Up Sid. And I did. After You Tubing the video for Boondon ke moti, all I wanted to do was open my laptop and write!

Something that happens along with growing up is the increase of impatience! I just saw 5 secs of a song from that Ricky Bahl movie. One more thing that changes with age is the definition of love. Or maybe it's just coming of age. Love, I think becomes a tad boring as you grow up. Or maybe we just realize that it isn't exactly a fairy tale world out here! Love isn't what SRK showed in his movies. It's about that effortlessness in writing about it which isn't there anymore. It's more than love these days. It's not wild anymore, there's no drama in love. Because the talk about 'responsibility' takes it all away! Or maybe it's just me. I'm so used to having so much of drama in my life that the complete absence of it makes me impatient and annoyingly lethargic! My life may not have drama, but the best thing about being a writer is that you can add drama in others' lives! I'm planning to restart writing the story that I had left mid-way almost 2 years back! Hope I don't let the laziness come between the laptop and me!

Ah! I don't know what I have written. Just wrote the first things that came to my mind! Hope you liked it :) And you know what makes the MLIC more depressing- the rational fact that the world ain't ending in 2012!

Happy new year,  once again.