Then And Now

Reminiscing today on the younger years. How we were so full of hope, so eager with anticipation, starry-eyed and breezy-headed. People were full of virtues. And the few faults we saw in them could be easily overcome in the name of love. Valentine's day was a bigger event than our birthdays. Careers were priority number one - always, everyday. And the absurd certainty that a knight in shining armor would come along, that he was there waiting for us, the 'one'.

I wonder why noone ever warned us about how completely disillusioned we were. Or maybe someone did and we were just not paying attention. So here we are...several years and sour grapes later, free at last of our constricting rosy imagination, eyes opened wide enough to see things as they really are...welcome to the thirties. We have gathered plenty insecurities, failures, heartbreaks and scandals along the way to know better by now. There was some occasional sprinkling of the good stuff too - love, friendship, success, adventure...to keep us going. But all in all, we know better now. We know that its better to 'work to live' rather than to 'live to work', and that more important than how many things you know is how professional you are while doing them. Family is the new priority number one - and that's how it will stay now till we die. And oh...we've met plenty devils out there to know that there's no knight in shining armor coming for us. Haven't met him yet anyway! (I tried to google him, apparently they've stopped manufacturing the shiny armors now, they only make them in matt. So there goes...)

Valentine's day now is just another day to feel heart-sore. Now that we know what-is.