Today I turn a year older

I am 28 years old now.

I have 28 years of experience in life. This makes me one of the foremost experts on life. Take my word for it. I won't be dolling out lessons that I have learnt because, honestly, I haven't. It has been trial and error all the way.

Life has changed rapidly, the surroundings have changed rapidly, the background music has changed rapidly, the entropy of the world has increased, but we all have survived. I was thinking to recap my life since the last day that I remember.

My UKG class teacher gave me a whistle on Christmas, she took it from the Christmas tree, I was happy, but then the fat spinster teacher saw the whistle in my hand and a happy child, she couldn't resist a child being happy, so she snatched the whistle from me and said kids aren't supposed to take ornaments from the Christmas tree. I don't even know why Christmas was being celebrated at school. We didn't have a single christian in my class, apart from that fat spinster. Such a kill joy, I still remember that fatso with so much contempt.

Yeah, yeah, kid got bullied by teacher, so funny, haha.

Next thing I remember, I was now the President of India, that might have been a dream. Moving on.

Don't worry, I am not recapping my life, just some moments here and there. After 28 years, you get a new perspective on life, or maybe you don't, or maybe you just hallucinate more. Life can be unforgiving at times, like when I bought a book from Flipkart and they sent me a pirated copy. I was so furious. But then I calmed down and returned that book, got my money back. This also reminds me that X took money from me but did not give me the blue tick. What a tragedy.

There was a time in life when I used to get 3 newspapers everyday and read the editorials, it was a new experience, taught me a lot of things, don't ask me what though because I don't remember. It was a good exercise for increasing my reading speed. I also discovered that I wanted to read fiction and fantasy than some real life smut. Now, I read a lot of fiction and fantasy and live in my fairy world.

I have realised why people like One Piece so much and why it has so many die hard fans, the world building in One Piece is awesome and there is no dull moment or any arc that will make you think that you should skip it, unlike Naruto, there are so many fillers that even if you skip them you won't feel any change. No shade to Naruto though, it is also a generational anime. I am currently watching Sentenced to be a Hero, and Fate Strange/Fake (superb animation, ufotable is unbeatable when it comes to action sequences).

Back to life, when was the last moment when I was truly happy? I cannot find it my memory bank. All my happy moments are somehow followed by painful moments. Like when I got this new cycle but when I took the cycle out for the first time and then a tree branch fell on me, then I had to go to heaven, and plead my case to go back to Earth to fulfil my duties as an honourable human. Duh.

Remember those Scholastic Book Fairs that used to come to school? That smell of new books, so enthralling, my mom used to buy me a book every time, once I got a dinosaur book. Now I purchase whatever books I like whenever I like, adult money is awesome.

I want to laugh till my tummy hurts, I haven't done that since a long time. Forgotten how it feels. We can use drugs to relive those moments, but the thing is you won't remember them after the drug has worn off. Okay, no sad pilling. Only funny pilling, or happy pilling.

I went on this roller coaster in my school picnic at some amusement park in Mumbai, but I forgot to remove my glasses and they broke, I was so sad...aaaaah, all happy moments followed by sad ones, what curse is this oh divine one.

So the war is happening and things will get expensive.

Back to life, do not take things seriously, most of the work you do is fake and even if you did not do that work, it won't make a difference, haha. Oh wait, wait, wait, yes. Terry Pratchett. I have become a huge fan of him, The Discworld novels are superb, I am currently reading the City Watch novels, and I am reading Jingo. Terry is awesome. Cannot get enough of Discworld. It is so funny. I recently recovered from seasonal viral, I think one should get sick from time to time so that they can release that what it feels like to be weak. Teaches you a lot, that the default behaviour of health is a blessing.

Something funny, something funny to end this, wait, let me think.

Soon there will be mangoes.