Yes, yes I know. We all have aspirations although too much of that and you will be out of breath, aspirating I mean. But I want to yam a bit about this whole idea of growing up.
People have been possessed by this one facet about other people's lives since time immemorial. A father asks his child - what do you want to be when you grow up? Sometimes a stranger asks a newly met acquaintance the same loaded question.
To which there are a few possible answers depending on the mood.
1. What do you mean growing up? How else should I be growing? Skewed? At a slight angle to the earth? How slight? What examples of angular growth can you cite?
2. Why are we all obsessed with this idea of growing up? To respond to the 'where did you grow up?' question there are also many possible answers like - I mostly grew around the buttocks then some rapid expansion in the groin area followed by some bulbous activity behind my ears. Sort of like Al Neuman.
Also some of these questions presume that its a one time event and not a continuum as is more realistic. Why not ask - where have you been growing up? as opposed to where did you grow up? Then I could respond more specifically saying - I started my growth on the Indian peninsula then transitioned to the North American continent where I continued to shed some top layer of keratin.
Now I will stop yamming and let you all go back to your growing.
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
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