theuncomplicatedlifeofa16yrold

"Of course ma'am my parents are very paranoid", This is the answer I give when my teacher asked if I was taking precautions while going outside, however, this is an understatement. Running into bushes, and fences, to avoid people, does not come under paranoid it comes under psychotic with a hint of insanity and a certain amount of wish to get scratched .   Luckily this Paranoia hasn't affected everyone around us especially the nice old lady in the park who enjoys talking to the birds. (No, I do not mean this figuratively I mean this literally) She prefers to crow to them in their language. She does this quite suddenly and quite loudly, resulting in my already anxious parent into flinging me over the fence on the other end of the park. (please note these occurrences are purely due to the pandemic. We are crazy but we do not usually fling each other over fences) This lady affects their mental state more due to the fact that, as everyone knows, you cannot possibly squaw...

Do you know I am 15 years old and even though I claim life isn’t as complicated as it seems, one of the perks of being my age is you may be getting randomly stressed or panicked about your future. Now this is completely normal, I think. The thing is that today as I was pondering on philosophical things of our existence, as one might on a Saturday morning, I realized I wasn’t doing homework or studying at that moment and this made me guilty. Now surely that shouldn’t be right, why should I feel guilty for doing some philosophical thinking? “Because morning is for Physics”, my brain politely explained. That’s when It hit me – my default state was supposed to be ‘doing H.W.’ or ‘Studying’. If you have perhaps read my earlier blog on parenting, you would know that in my house thinking about butterflies (this is an example, we don’t only think about butterflies. Bees are important too) is preferred over sitting at a table and staring at study books. Despite that, in the back of my mind, the...

Yes we are in lockdown and it is perfectly understandable if you are at a stage where you are lying on your bed and you want to do something, but you don’t want to. You are feeling bad lying around doing nothing but you don’t want to do anything. So here’s a carefully compiled list of things to do, even if you don’t want to. 1. Cooking – ingredients may be limited. But that’s exactly what watching Masterchef – limited ingredients rounds – has prepared us for. Also, when else are you going to get the opportunity to justify watching TV? 2. Plants – spend time with your family and I mean your WHOLE FAMILY, including your plants. I have recently been given the mammoth task of watering our balcony – meaning jungle – of plants. Trust me I didn’t like it at first, I just did it by routine. However, now you may catch me having a long philosophical conversation with a Ficus. 3. Books – don’t you just love being able to shoot the names of prize-winning books you have r...

Today is an international parenting day, so I felt that maybe I should write a blog about parents, or perhaps it would be more appropriate if they wrote one for me. The first time I realised that there was something peculiar about the way my parents were parentings, was in junior school. When my friends used to crib about their parents dragging them to tuitions every day. Now this didn’t sound right to me as the only place my parents dragged me to was to the park. Intrigued, I investigated further and found out that they had timetables at home ! These timetables were like lists, not like the annoying list I had at home which dictated which 5 fruits I have to have that day, but a list with all the activities under the sun allotted to a time slot. In a day, they would have a math tuition, a science tuition, singing class and skating class. I never had these time slots. I thought everybody played, studied and slept like me. If I had to follow any of those timetables, by the end of the day...

Lockdown Day 7  There comes a time in every 15-year-olds life when they just need to start a blog. You may expect them to continue with 'to sort out their complicated lives' or some such 15-year-old sentence. But honestly, my life is pretty simple and this blog will contain the simple times in my life. Because there isn't enough simple in this world. Lockdown Day 8  You may wonder - since we are in lockdown it is a good time to wonder about things- when this brilliant idea of starting a blog struck me. Well what can I say, there is something rather enlightening about chanting Om at the beginning of an online class. When 112 students are chanting Om at the top of their voices in your headphone and the teacher just can't be heard, great things happen. Like the class getting delayed by 20 minutes because we couldn't hear the teacher trying to stop us, and believe me she tried.