GIVE ME SOME SUNSHINE, GIVE ME SOME RAIN, GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE I WANT TO GROW UP ONCE AGAIN!!!

Swanand Kirkire couldn’t have come up with anything better than these lyrics for the movie 3 IDIOTS.

They just make so much sense if you ponder over them for 2 minutes. Imagine if you got a chance to “grow up” once again.

How different things would have been! We always sit and wonder, “had I taken that decision my life would have been different,” or “I should have told that girl that I like her…. damn I made a mistake” or even something like, “why am I doing what I am doing right now!!”

There are so many things that have happened in your past which have made you what you are today.

Let’s start with the school life. There can be some school election that you won or lost and now if you get a chance you would want to get back there and set it right. There could have been many juniors in your school who used to respect you a lot and had a very nice opinion about you, but they never told you as you were always a “senior”. They might have told you that now after 5 years but now it doesn’t really make that much of a difference. Had those things happened in school how different your life would have been? The same thing goes with whatever you felt about your seniors… the girl you always had a crush on….. a failed relationship…. A competition in which you choked at the last minute resulting in your team’s loss…. A exam you screwed up because you were too casual about it… and so many other things. If you get a chance you will definitely want to relive it again and correct a few things.

Same goes for your school life. The people whom you love, your best friends, people whom you hate, people whom you want to beat up, people who were meddlesome and caused you a lot of trouble. Had you known this beforehand or had you had a chance to relive it again you could correct so many things.

All these are the negative points that I have been discussing about. There are so many positives too.

The tomboyish girl (from the school that you hate the most) you saw at some entrance exam who looked so snobbish that you detested her and would have never imagined that she would one day become your best friend, the guy whom you just casually met while playing football ends up becoming your “bro”, some lass whom you never even looked at when you were in your junior college turn out to be the person who understands you so very well and becomes your bestest friend… there are numerous such examples.

All these things constitute what we call “destiny”. And the thing about destiny is that it’s fair!! It gives you positives and it gives you negatives. If at all we do get a chance to grow up once again we might do these things right but then there would be something else we would have in store courtesy destiny.

People always say that we would like to see the future but I think this way would be much better. You experience future first hand and the go back and change a few things.

But is it really necessary to change those things?

So many people say that I regret doing this, I regret doing that, blah blah blah. BULLCRAP I say.

We never regret anything; rather we should not because “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER. SO LIVE IT UP.. DRINK IT DOWN… LAUGH IT OFF..… TAKE YOUR CHANCES AND NEVER REGRET THEM… BECAUSE AT ONE POINT ….. EVERYTHING YOU DID WAS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED!!!!”