You are as old as you think you are...

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Oxy had left a beautiful comment on my last post and that inspired this post. You are as old as you think you are…

I look back at some things that I started doing when I was young and when I look at me right now I think nothing much has changed almost.

I still:
- Suck on sugar boiled candies and jujubes
- Read comic books, while I have started high school and am now working Archie and the gang are still struggling to get out from Riverdale High and never failing to bring a smile on my face each time.
- Watch the ageless and violent cat and mouse story; yes Tom and Jerry still ranks as one of the all time best option to kill time
- Like lollipops and ice candy, they may look silly but far silly are cigarettes than peep out of others lips
- Drink H2O to get me a high
- Like Kevin McAllister, though Macaulay Culkin may have 10 year old kids, yet HA 1,2 still figures in my list of movies that can be watched any number of times
- Think that goodness is rewarded
- Believe that God is good
- Love my family and think home is the best
- Laugh out heartily when I hear a joke; watch a comedy, read a comic
- Enjoy home cooked food (mom and now D) the best
- Fight with my brother, only now it is at an intellectual level
- Dream of the ideal world
- Play pranks on unsuspecting friends and family
- Pray
- Sing like nothing else matters
- Spend time with friends
- Obey my parents even though it is tougher

The list goes on...

So how old do you think I am?

Comments

  1. Anonymous12:13 pm

    you are young...

    obeying parents ")

    enjoy home food... i survive on hotel food and self cooking '(

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  2. PurpleHeart4:40 am

    Just about a toddler ! :D As long as you can keep the kid in you alive, life can grow out of age, but you never will ! Really liked and agreed on almost all the points. Stay the same forever !

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  3. Ashika9:20 am

    Hey Jolly! Nice post!! I think I might take a leaf out of your book (blog, really) and belt out a similar list!! Keep it going!

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  4. Divia10:10 am

    i vouch for all that is listed in the post and some more

    *oil has to be applied on his head by me or his mum

    * if you make puttu at home, you have to mix it with banana sugar and coconut and give it with a spoon!!! like you do for a kid...

    and many more
    i stop here for safety sake. he he he

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  5. Anonymous7:51 am

    haha.. would have been fun if trinity had given some more interesting news

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  6. Zee8:50 pm

    i re-read my archies and my bestest moments are when i'm reading my archie comic and eating a dairy milk....i'll never grow up!

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  7. Daniel11:06 am

    U r 30...and becoming Older.... i'm not far behind.. :)
    Gud blog..

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  8. S. Susan Deborah10:08 pm

    If you make puttu at home, you have to mix it with banana sugar and coconut and give it with a spoon!!! like you do for a kid...

    This is sheer laziness.

    Clement, I think all of us have some parts which are still childlike. I have many such traits like all of us do.

    Liked to read this part of the giant man ;)

    Joy always,
    Susan

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