Monday, March 12, 2012

Me. Differently.

I love to make "lists". I have been making them for a very long time. The first one I remember was a list of all the books of Enid Blyton when I was in middle school. The latest is the list of all the Hollywood movies I have ever seen. There have been quite a lot of lists in between. Maybe, someday I will write a list of all my lists too.

I like to read books. I prefer the ones with happy endings. To be quite honest, I haven't read too many books without those. But I intend to change that soon. I also intend to write a list of all the books I have ever read. I would go to birthday parties and instead of indulging in the silly games we used to love playing back then, I would go to the bookshelf and pick up books to browse through them. One time I could finish five whole chapters of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before the birthday girl snatched the book from me and ordered me to talk to her. I didn't like that one bit.

I am an ideal person to talk to, basically because I do not talk much. I like to talk just like every other person, but I do not, except of course to a few very selected people. This "list" of few selected people, once upon a time used to consist my whole class. The only complaint that my teacher had was my talkativeness. I guess you could say I had a lot of friends from kindergarten till middle school. By I time I reached senior year in school, I was left with just four people that I could really talk to in class and now that I am in college that number has dwindled to, umm, let's make it one for everyone's sake.

Sometimes I stay up all night. Well, since I am being honest here, most of the nights I stay up all night. I either go to sleep at 6am or not sleep at all. Just yesterday, I stayed up all night, reading an ebook, got dressed up and went to meet a friend at Park Street. He was a tad bit late so I decided to have a Brownie Sundae as my breakfast at McDonald's. We went to a mall, the newest one in town, that too. We wanted to watch a movie, but the timings didn't match and we ended up watching The Big Bang Theory outside the multiplex on my friend's laptop.

I like to eat out. A lot. I eat out a lot too. Alone. And I am not talking about standing in front of a fast food joint to grab an egg-roll. I am talking about proper restaurants, with cloth napkins, knives and forks. And me. Alone.

And I have 1003 friends on Facebook.

Two of my closest friends live 1500 km away. One, I have never met. Both very good friends of my ex once upon a time. Both, taken together the only good thing that came out of the relationship. Both, taken together, the only reason I do not regret it, since it would have been impossible to have these two had I not been with my ex.

I have been single for one year, two months,three days, four hours, five minutes and six seconds. I do not keep count of that. I just calculated it now. Not the days, hours,minutes or seconds though. Those were just for fun.

Very few people understand my brand of humor. Most don't even get it in the slightest bit. You know, like some people don't get the joke but laugh anyway just to be polite. Well, in my case, nobody laughs.

I love travelling. I have had two vacations every year ever since I was one and a half years old. The first one was Darjeeling, the next one will be Vellore.

I think I am fat. I think I need to watch those carbs. I had chips and coke for lunch today. What I need to do and what I end up doing are two very different things. What I want to do and what I end up doing are two very different things too. What I think about you and what I say to you are two very different things as well. What I think about everything and what I say to you are again two very different things. (you=everyone I know)

And I think I have written enough to make you wonder or write me off straight away as crazy or otherwise.

I can tell you right now what I think of those who will wonder and those who will give the verdict in a heartbeat, but then again, you would never know for sure what I actually thought.



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