Growing up

“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.”

The Wonder Years quotes

I was no different from the other kids who fantasized growing up and getting out of the regimented life to live on their own and go helter skelter like a rolling stone. Finally came the day when from carefree adolescence to the romantic adulthood I am a man who has survived more than 27 years on this planet and the storage space of his brains have no room to shelter any boyish dreams.

Through all these years I have switched jobs had unsuccessful relationships, broke hearts and got heartburns. Messed my finances several times, got into serious trouble with alcohol and here I stand in the middle of the rubble of all these years trying to figure my way out. What to hold and what to give up; sometimes I wonder is growing up equally painful for everyone.

Sitting here in this matchbox type house in Delhi I am writing the first post of perhaps world’s most boring diary.