Saturday, March 29, 2008

Complex Phraseology

I speak several different languages. I speak a different language with of the different species that I know and communicate with. There are so many of them – both languages and species- in this world…hell, in my own house!

Take my parents for example, they gave birth to me. I’m a part of them- 1) physically (I live with them and I’m a part of their family) and 2) physically (as in they produced me, yeah you know what I mean!). They’ve seen me grow in height, width and every other way possible and they still do. Then how is it that they don’t understand many of the most important things that I feel they should understand. By most important things I don’t mean clichéd teenage problems relating to boyfriends, smoking, drinking, absence of privacy blah blah blah. What I mean is, they don’t think the way I do – maybe they don’t even try. I know that I probably am, but I don’t mean to sound like an emo-child who is on awful terms with her parents because in my case, it’s nothing like that at all. I love my parents a lot- yeah they scream, shout, nag, crib, criticize, deny and make a big deal out of every minuscule thing possible- but that’s the way they are. They will never walk out on me no matter what I do, and I will never walk out on them –it’s a thought so outrageous that even thinking of thinking such a thought makes me laugh. – Then why the hell am I complaining about them not understanding me here? Well because they don’t, and just because I am!

It’s weird the way they know what I like to eat but not the colour that I would like to wear. Some of the things, or come to think of it, actually most of the things they tell me to do are just some kind of warped portrayal of meaningless and useless authority that makes sense to beings of only forty years and older. They think they understand and know everything, but they really don’t and the way they assume themselves to be correct is what really makes me angry, and when I protest, they call me a rebel, they call me out-of-control, they call me a psycho. Not that I’m saying that I’m not a psycho, but that’s beside the point here. The point is that assuming such things isn’t right and forcing your assumptions on others not right at all. They also have another problem with admitting their faults. I’m not trying to sound like a goody-two-shoe here, but hey, I admit all my faults, and I even admit that I do over-react very badly at times, but I can never get them to admit their faults, especially my mom. Man, she can kill some guy and say “yeah so what, what’re you going to do about it huh?!”………….Trust me, it’s not as cool as it sounds. It’s pretty frustrating.

Now moving onto my elder sister. I love her. She the most amazing person in the world. I don’t think I would’ve wanted to live in a world without her. She’s a complete goofball, a little girl, a complete freak! She doesn’t keep any secrets from me, I really love her. But like everyone, she too has her own set of problems. If she’s been accused- she doesn’t take it too well. She over-reacts pretty badly but that’s not the problem. The problem is, that she tends to become dramatically cliché and aggressively emotional when she’s angry. She says things that my mom says when she’s angry...Things like –“I’ll never forget the way you behaved with me tonight!!” and “You’ll have to suffer for this!!”- I know she doesn’t mean any of it, but why say such things if you don’t mean them and when no one is in a casual mood, there really not nice things to say to people. But I do forgive and forget and she forgets and forgives- the two are different (Think about it).

………In a way every person is good. GOOD and BAD are twisted words. I might love a person who the world finds horrid and I might hate a person who the world adores…..

If I talk about my best friends, then I would be talking about those selected few, who you know mostly everything about me. The things that they don’t know are probably the things are that I have either forgotten or the things that I don’t know myself. They are the ones who know all the different languages in which I speak to different the different species. They think like me and comprehend things the way I do. Yeah we argue and fight sometimes- but only because we’re tired of getting along and want to do something different and have fun doing it. I remember this one instance when my friend and I were discussing the ways in which we can destroy each other’s lives.

I have some good friends as well who know me well but do not know everything about me. They know most of my apparent characteristics and are aware of some of my not so apparent characteristics, but nonetheless I love them quite a lot.

Another species is called “friends”- these are the people who know be by name, who have visited my orkut, facebook and hi5 profiles and perhaps my blog. They usually know I’m that I’m from M.H.S. and the lead guitarist of the school band and they make a big deal out of this fact, not because I’m brilliant- but because I am a girl (this is irritating as I’m somewhat a feminist!). In a way I’m glad they don’t know all about me and why should they? I mean, why would they do and in-depth analysis of my character, do they have a lack in life or what?

Then there are those species who I call “unfamiliar people from around familiar places”: the people who I see on the road, the people who stare at my hair at bust-stands, the people who sit next to me in buses and autos, the people who leave math tuition at 3 pm, when I enter, and those who enter at 5pm when I leave, the people in weddings, the people who look up from the road when I am talking to loudly on the phone, sitting in the balcony, the people in automobiles who stop next to my car at traffic signals, the people in the shop where I buy my BSNL cash-card and five star crunchy from etc etc..You know…the people… all different species.

When I speak to these species, I don’t enforce myself to speak in different languages, it comes naturally and even though it comes naturally, I hate to admit it, but it’s the truth. The language I speak to my friends is not the one I speak to my Teacher... Like that—this is because every single human being is different, no two people are the same—according to the theory that I’m following, that makes every individual a different species.

A single human being has a variety of characteristics and different selves...In that way a human being has different species of selves inside him/her……

Ok this is getting too complicated. I’m going to stop now.

[TO BE DEALT WITH LATER]

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good one sister. However, starting from the beginning of the text, I must admit that you do not admit all your faults. Dont ask me to explain why. I dont remember all instances but just one concerning your dadu's bandage in his head. Cut that out. Next, whether you admit it or not, this entry can be included in a chapter of the bible of teenage frustrations. When I was a teenager, I often felt the same way, but I never put it up in a blog coz I never had a blog then. However, the name Whymsical Reflections was composed when I was in the 1oth standard. I had also written a frustarting essay a few days ago, pertaining to my academic pressures, not getting into IIT and blah blah blah but it contained material too sensitive to be put up on a blog, especially since it contained facts which if read by my college folks could cause serious rumours to spread.
Btw, I deactivated the word verification option. So you can leave comments without any teenage irritations. :-)

Xiamaze said...

??
funny how everything sounds so stupid when you put the word "teenage" before it..

teenage frustration.
teenage irritation..

dont bother so much about what others will think.
you'll be better off.
and thanks for getting rid of the word verification.

Anonymous said...

na na...this one involves the reputation of the dude with once long hair who plays the guitar...so its important... :)

Rajasee Ray said...

every person is like a string of levels. like a ladder. some of your levels will overlap mine. many won't.
with some people you'll only be able to speak each other's language at one level. with some most of your levels will match.
never all. never ever.
i don't know. certain conjoint twins (?)
like i shall talk to you about cartoons ...and dreams. all of us talk about dreams. :)
i shall talk to my sister and ma about... most everything. not everything but mostly. obviously.
i talk to baba about strange theories and books and birds and the world.
its fun to share excitement in certain things. common chords.
but its completely impossible to know every side of a person. specially when he thinks a lot.
yes. especially then.
we're all so many different characters put into one each no.
its never like in a book. where a person is a person. with a definite character.
that would be unreal.

Anonymous said...

nice nice
i like
teenage just a tag put on us
everybody feels the same way.....by the time u get out of teenage u learnt not to express it to others coz ten they will feel ur still a teen.....

pancham_banerjee said...

such is life.....and complex phraseology...
P.S. I seem to have REALLY lost the knack for(of?) posting witty blog comments these days..but then, I guess I never really did....

the [R]etard said...

parent! they're quaint. crucial. integral. it's important to make them feel like you're listening because they think that since they gave birth to you and raised you, you owe them something. there's very little you can give them right now. so it's important to give in the way they want.
at the same time dahling... you have to watch your own back and do things that you need to do. it would help so much if all our parents were a little more understanding, a little more liberal. i think they forget that they were our age. or maybe they didnt have the choices that we do. what ever it is. give. but remember to take also

love
light
peace

=)

googly said...

complex....

Debs said...

What about the species we call People?

Or rather, 'oyi ora?"

Xiamaze said...

people are strange, they should be shot.

so i shot them and they died.
and now they are ALL buried in my backyard.

Debs said...

B.A.O.S then!

Xiamaze said...

heh??

British Association of Oral Surgeons?

Debs said...

No!
Not even

Bomber Aircraft On Sea
or,
Bengal Association of Santhal

Be Aware of Surrondings!

Xiamaze said...

oh.
alright then.

Darksideoftheloon said...

As for your second para(sorry to start this way, reporter's instinct)...I guess generation gap is the 'technical' term...and as to the people...you've shot them...so will any prudent and freedom loving man(woman!!!) will do...good work, bravo...no need to reflect on them anymore...
your name and the picture of slash, your studyin in MHS, your hair...makes me feel, that I hav seen you somewhere...sometime(am not tryin to be poetic,trust moi)...in someone's friendlist,in some community site. I can't remember anyone(I am really kinof 'lord emsworth in these matters,pray forgive moi)...
and as for your philosophy's, (they are your's and i hav no right to comment, still...reporter!)...nothing is good or bad in this world,its the way anyone looks at 'things'...I have always been an ardent follower of the philo...of a certain Cap'n Jack Sparrow..."the only rules that matters are these, mate...its only what a man CAN do...what a man CANT..."
for example...you may read this, get interested, or discard...fact remains that you will live in the world with your tho'ts and so will I...and I for example...(i quite liked your style of writing, btw, no flattery or sarcasm, this)can keep on blabbing, or stop...only havin this honest immortal urge to know you(not expecting that you will have that too...)...but I cant force you to reply back to me...savvy?
so coming to it...'nuff said...I liked your wordplay, n texts...we might be pals...i used to have a blog...deleted now...check this one out...couple ov my articles...

http://www.the-latest.com/blog/272

if you are "moved" with the fire within you after this...get back to me...I am "grey sands" in orkut...thr's only one grey sands, in orkut(infact the world, i guess)...nonetheless...stay classic, in this queen of planets...pippin off...

Mind Mapping said...

what is "pippin off"?

Xiamaze said...

no clue