and so i met them- at a place not quite right- well it probably would have been right a year back or even 8 months back. - maybe. it isnt now. . i felt 50 here..tho' dressed in my usuals, jeans n a semi-formal shirt, tho' these were friends ive been wanting to talk to for so long a time, all i could concentrate on was if i was dressed inappropriate, if i had grown out of my group, if i had grown out of my age, if i HAD really become old....
last week i met up with some of my college friends-the gang. the guys decided to go to mocha, so yea it was a plan. its one of those places where you'd probably be looked down upon if you decide to go on a scooter or bike rather than a flashy car..(of course guys flaunting girlfriends(and most of their backs!!) are allowed to bring a bike, a popular one with alloy wheels only!) . The place would make u feel either terribly overclothed , extremely poor, or jus plain silly/awkward.
Was talking a whole lot about culture n clothing wasnt i? I jus wanna sink a surface below!!! Maybe there are a bunch trying to imitate. Maybe the kids in the city are jus getting adjusted to the darn heat. Maybe i'm jus growing old. Whatever it maybe this was no definition of fun for me anymore. i'd rather have the environment silent n well, more covered.
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oh come on you can't be that old. plus this is the case of you being upper middle class and hanging out with the upwardly mobile. clothes well i don't know what i find scarier to ask is not if i am older but if i am conservative? i know its a scary thought but realy ask yourself if it isn't just a case of us and them and well at the expense of ticking you off isn't it just a case of why don't i have as much. cos as confession when i went to mocha i felt exactly that.
lol! arch mocha is surely a place where the hep creeps in- n 'hep' certainly includes Nokia N series,IPod,Flashy Cars ,Gangs of girls and guys (in equal ratio;)) ,skimpy dresses!!!
remember those days we used to hang out pavama!! near Joy shop and Gangotri!!
@dramaprasad,thats something i really did get thinking about almost immediately after i wrote the post.but it really isnt a case of why dont i have that much, thats not what really bothers me, its more like even if i had that much, id never be one of them. @gayathri, yea i miss those days. i miss the after school on sats at gangotri..
You know what i find most disturbing in every conversation of this kind, is that, while its easy and trust me very middle class like for us to say things like its just a bunch of kids who are lost for direction, or they are too hep! its really not very liberal and to be honest its just plain patronising see wolverine's example ipods now do't figure 'apparently' into the rich spoilt kid bracket any more. its relativity . in the early nineties when most of us were just kids, i am hoping with your confessions of attending college, i couldn't dream of having a kinectic honda for my self,the rich kids had it. now that is what it is with greater incomes what you define as a luxury changes.
But thats not the argument though the original strain was about coming to terms with a bunch of people who you can't relate to. And in the true spirit of a liberal (which i belive i am) let me ask this one question. shouldn't you as liberals be open to the idea of someone wanting to imitate a culture even if its at the cost of him loosing originality. why should you be the judge of their behaviour? and if so ask yourself this aren't they looking at you thew same way... why i say this is because at univesity as a BA student i faced the same kind of academic high horse my so called liberal friends who embraced the kurta and jhola used to always say. though i think at this point i would still revert to archana's argument and confess that while its all too comnfusing to understand how one can spend the entire day 'seeing and being seen' as you call it , in a up market coffe pub, at the end of the day it is confusing for ME, and probably for a few people like me, but there is another angle... and wel for a 'liberal' all those angle are important too.
I am an svcian alumi and i agree with the sentiments in the blog..but doesn't everyone have their own liberties and judgements on how they should be??..but i really have to admit.. i had a cultural shock and a feeling of being outta place last time i was back in good old chennai...Cheers!!
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