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Sonshu, Bangalore, Karnataka, India : I'll do what I wanna do. Be who I wanna be. Laugh how I want to, and jump when I want to. Dream. Believe. Achieve.
MOTTO. Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
The bell rang and it was time to go home. It was just one of those days when you felt like talking to, well, nobody and all you wanted to do was sit by the window sill and read a book. We all have those days don't we? Well today was one such day.
The scorching sun shone high up in the sky spreading its warmth and yellow all over. It was like the sun desired to display its power and might. I felt like surrendering, my head did a great job of being a pain and I could feel the stinging pain running through every nerve. Then I saw it, the bus approaching us, the waiting passengers. We hurried to get a seat and although my favourite seat was taken, I found another comfortable and convenient one. As I settled down with my bag and baggage, the conductor came around collecting money screaming ‘Tickeeets' in his screeching voice. I just felt like yelling at him to just keep his mouth shut but of course that would result in pathetic consequences so I decided against it and continued reading my book.
At the next stop this rather peculiar looking man and his child got into the bus and headed towards the empty seats next to me. Father and daughter had this mannerless behaviour of staring at me reading like I was committing some crime.
First the kid was eating a milky chocolate and then she took out the wrapper and began dropping chocolate all over the bus seats with her father just telling her to ‘push it off the seat' , her father glanced at me giving the ‘its-not-your-house-for-god-sakes-look'! Next she decided that she wanted to worsen my sulky mood and began falling on my bag smearing white chocolate on it, she cunningly acted like she was reaching out to her father and began putting chocolate on my bag.
As if this was not enough she took out a book of her own and began reading aloud. I read the label and found she was in Grade 1. She started reciting ‘If you happy and you know it' and boy! Did she know them? No, she just kept saying the same “If you happy…” line over and over again you know as if she just wanted to annoy me. I was going to storm out shouting, but we had almost reached our destination. Going by facts, usually I say kids are adorable and I love baby-sitting because I think kids are the easiest to manage. This child though proved to be an exception. Yes, she was totally born to irritate and infuriate me. Then she started imitating the way I read and kept pulling her hair in front and then pushing it back. As if it was necessary. Then she made her father get up and went to his seat and then again came back to her seat and continued the same process. I almost lost count of the number of times she did it because I was tired. I was almost asleep when this first grader stamped on my feet so hard that I almost screamed. Luckily the bus came to a halt and it was time to go. I jumped out of my seat and quickly ran towards the door.
It was over. After effects: moody behaviour, pathetic and ever-such-a-nuisance creating headache, irritation, screaming for no reasons, bad weekend.
That's exactly what kids can do to you.
Love,
Sonshu
