at age 1,
I was a silent kid, never troubled parents, played with empty match boxes and tins
2,Loved the company of the old men than kids of my age
3,Started dreaming
4,Used to play with paper scraps rather than toys
5,Smart kid at school
6,Got beaten for mischiefs of my cousin who broke my loneliness
7,Developed a taste in comics
8,Got back my loneliness (cousin left for new house)
9,They called me a bookworm
10,They thought I would become SOMEONE GREAT one day
11,Teachers decided I must participate in Poetry writing competition and were proved right
12,Dreamed of ozone hole, thanks to those who exaggerated tiniest things to kill one's mental peace
13,Started writing poems and stories not just for competitions and got an access to the worthy library of my father's colleague
14,Fell in love with someone who caught my gaze while I was trying to woo someone else
15,Felt proud of my writings as others started congratulating me without trying to read it
16,Realized that I'm not the centre of universe. Learnt the art of staying in the background
17,Declared there are no bad persons or things
18,Missed my loneliness, entering hostel, which almost ended my poetic life
19,Said good-bye to my first love for no reason, perhaps only because I began to feel love is not a unidirectional thing
20,Became pure vegetarian
21,Found out that faith has no boundaries i.e, one could believe in any @#$%
22,Got my Engg Degree, despite having no interest in it.
23,Mastered the art of unlearning
24,Killed the very last bit of iconoclasm in me to become a common man, which I enjoyed most
25,Witnessed the return of my poetic mood but not to last long, for I had already become inseparable from the masses
26,Again in love, finally found out my lady and proposed to her denying the barriers of language and distance, only after receiving the wedding invitation from my first love, who had already made it clear that she had nothing in store for me
27,Love changed me again, ruling out the linearity of time
28,World became too small, and I liked it. Yet I begged her to grab me tight or she might even lose me, which she never understood
29,-Books, Music, Friends all gave way to Wife, Wife, Wife
30,-Found it hard to digest that the very qualities you discovered in you were termed as your minus points. And then, that's what called Family life!
31,I used to say proudly that I never bothered about money in all my life but she wanted me to.
32,Came to the Caliphate, months without wife, e-mail, computer, books. A trip to the past century
33,Wife joined me, 2 people alone in the universe
34,Found no reason why people get worried, world is as easy as a nokia phone menu
35,Gained enough boldness to declare that religion is utter nonsense and preaching is foolish
36,Lost an unborn, and then my father