PRELUDE..................

Prelude.......???!!! wht a weird title one wuld say.........but tht was how i have saved it on my d-drive..............because tht was the first word tht came to my mind as soon as i read it!!!

I am talkin abt this mail tht i had recievd a couple of days ago. It kind of is a compilation of my thoughts.........thoughts of a "TWENTY - SOMETHING "

I relly liked the title.....coz it did touch a very sensitive nerve..........TWENTY - SOMETHING bin twenty implies so many thngs...........and so many SCARY things which are said and also unsaid...........things which sometimes we feel are not meant for us but for someone older to us.............but suddenly those jobs r given to us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah.............being twenty has its bnefits and down-sides.........but its an amazing experience nonetheless.

This brings we back to the mail....................it has within it many paras.............which i am sure everyone i.e. every TWENTY - SOMETHING would relates to................so here are the paras.....1 at a time.............literally copy pased frm the mail.....along with my own interpretations..........

They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis."It is when you stop going along

with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about

yourself that you didn't know.

yeah......thts wht i am talking abt..............we surprise owerselves by sayin smething which we earlier would never had dared to say!!!!!!!!!!!! we take up responsiblities.........we vote........we drive [ officially] ;) ...............we hence officially become adults...............happy realistaion to us all!!!!!!!

You start feeling insecure and wonder

where you will bein a year or two,

but then get scared because

you barely know where you are now.

itsnt this clearly evident!!!!!!!!!!!!..................these signs and emotions r everywhere.....outside every colleges and institutions also within the walls of our homes or.......plastered on the faces of the millions like us that we would see running to catch a train or bus.......even on the beach...... in malls......... JUST ABT EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!.........uncertain future, uncertain relationships, peer pressure, self-discovery, proving urself.................

One minute, you are insecure and then the next,secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life.

You feel alone and scared and confused.

Suddenly,change is the enemy and you try and cling on to

the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is

drifting further and further away, and there is nothing

to do but stay where you are or move forward.

no one can run away from this.....................absolutely no one............so less time left......so many emotions felt............hormones acting up........r should i say hormones settling down????.............and also no point denying this..............

i kept reading this mail over and over again.............for the first time i thought a very useful forward has finally come through.............it just explains so many things..................butt this is just a small part of the mail..............i may write abt the rest of it later................coz i am still unsure..............and now i better publish his mail before i decideto delete it...............so... here is a [confused] TWENTY -SOMETHING signing off..............