Stop With
The Lessons, OK?.
You know
what they say about life teaching you lessons and every experience is a
blessing in disguise? Well I dunno who came up with such empty platitudes but
take it from me it’s all such a load of bs (pardon my language). I mean who of
us, given a chance wouldn’t prefer to skip over all the gory details of our
lives and move straight on to the end part where we get what we deserve? On
second thoughts, scratch that sentence and let me rephrase it again. Where we
move on to the end part and get the victory we justly deserve?
Oh yeah right, I hear you agreeing ladies and
gentlemen and I nod back. All this character building through adversity and
struggle for success is also overhyped in books and media. In real life there
isn’t a single one of us who wouldn’t prefer to take the ladder over the snake
despite the many benefits of the snake’s lessons. If life was a movie wouldn’t
you like to fast forward it through all the tough parts, the boring parts, the
violent parts and prefer just to watch the colorful duet songs in Switzerland
alone?
Unfortunately
my life as a movie has been more an 80’s violent blockbuster type than the 90’s
romantic Euro-train missing/Switzerland duet singing screenplay till now.
Much
against my will I seem to have been cast in the role of the angry young man,
yep the role patented by Mr.Bacchan the elder, where I keep defeating gangs of
ruffians and rowdies trying to do me harm and a few reels later those same set
of villains keep turning up again and again to get bashed again. I mean there
should be an end to the number of villain’s sent against me by life right? Or at
least some variety in the screenplay? That’s not asking much is it? If I were
Batman in one of the innumerable sequel movies, I would be, by now looking at
the camera of my life and whining “oh the joker? Again? And the riddler? Again?
And two-face? Again and again?” For that’s the kind of scam life is trying to
pull on me all the time. And you the audience watching my life with bated
breath for what happens next are going to be sorely disappointed at the same
old faces turning up like clockwork.
To tell the
absolute truth (is there anything else I ever say?) I am frankly bored of the
old villains turning up again and again to thrash me and put me in hospital and
then when I get discharged and released out again the same set of villain’s are
waiting outside the gates to send me back into the hospital ward which I just
said a cheery farewell to. I wonder don’t they ever get bored of swearing
revenge against a single individual and move on to others once they have had
their fill of me. Even villains (/essess) should be given a chance to randomly
select fresh targets instead of wasting all their hate and time on an old and
well dusted antagonist like me.
And as for me, well, if I haven’t learnt my
lessons by now, doesn’t it mean I am not the learning type. So stop with the
lessons and bring on the end credits already, fate or destiny or whatever you
are. Be warned.
