My Autobiography - Chapter 9 (Keeping my Identity alive)

There’s an extra sense of glee playing around the corners of my dazzling life & this is because I surrendered myself to cheerfulness when loneliness was perhaps, a part of my being.

“I didn’t tread paths barred to me,
Obeyed, never uttered a ‘no’;
Because, submit & your life will be,
A paradise, He said & blessed me.”
“So I surrender to this Maya World,
Like a dancing peacock, displaying its feathers,
Defying the selfish world,
Not retreating into my shell Tortoise like.”

There is utter delight when people tell me, if there were one attribute that sums me up, my demure nature & great sense of humour & I say them, Yes, I have an immense capacity for laughter, for finding fun in just about every situation or turn of events that is hard to find in many people around. The only thing people notice about me is my effervescent persona that shows my tall height, my bavarding mouth & a smile that reaches my ears, seems as if I was sleeping with a hanger in mouth overnight. Lol…
I was & still I am the Ugly Duckling of my family (who very soon will become a beautiful Swan). My Indian roots lay down in the south, but I’ve aired growing in the west. Born, nurtured & stationed in the hub of one of the 7 Mega Cities of the world – Aamchi Mumbai.
Graduating in the field of Sociology, worked on PG diploma in Human Resource, & drop out in Masters for Sociology & Theoretical Anthropology, bringing my skills of Occult for a lay man’s benefits, I feel that I’ve got the Balls! Standing 5’10” & amassing appropriate kilo grams in hexa-decadal, punctuating & peppering every conversation exudes, I-CAN-CONQUER-ALL attitude. But Life will not always be so, neither was it earlier. “Anything worth achieving requires hard work & discipline.” What seems like an overnight transition of great people is actually the culmination of years & years of hard work.
I have one mantra to live by & finger counting philosophies to state. “Be optimistic & never give up” is the former, while, “make more money, be a successful person, make intelligent entries & look sensational even in your 60s” is the latter. Every individual is stamped with expiry dates & so was I. But I’ve been able to break my shelf-life norm & would leave it broken till I exhale my last breath.