Okay, after much procrastination-the kind that might’ve made the prince of Denmark turning in his grave- I’ve decided to do the tag. Thanks Mixed Blessings 89 a.k.a Aditi for tagging me.
Here goes the list of 25 things few people know about me
1 My name, Arun, I was told, was suggested by a then friend of my father who later attained iconic status by leading a one man crusade against a wily politician.
2 I still regret about the first cigarette I offered to a friend who smokes 40 to 50 cigarettes a day now.
3 I had a romantic notion that self destruction was cool.
4 I don’t have anything against nurses, in fact I believe that it’s a noble profession, but still, when they try to get rid of the bubbles out of the syringe by pushing forth the plunger right in front of my eyes I can’t help thinking them as sadists.
5 More than once I shamelessly asked nurses weather I can take some pills rather than an injection.
6 My mother once told me that as an infant I didn’t trouble her as she could make me sit wherever, even upon a table and I didn’t move a bit, I guess I was too afraid thinking of the fall, and not much has changed till date.
7 The poem I remember from my school days is ‘The School Boy’ by William Blake
“I love to rise in a summer morn
When the birds sing on every tree
The distant huntsman winds his horn
The skylark sings with me
Oh! What sweet company
But to go to school in a summer morn
Oh it drives all joy away…”
8 I hardly fit in and I never try to fit myself in anywhere.
9 I have a copy of ‘Crime and Punishment’ and I read it thrice so far, but only upto a particular point. Even though I’d found myself deeply engrossed in it, all the three times I had to discontinue. I also love Marmeladov, immensely.
10 Sometimes I feel that I read to escape from the bloody mundane ways of the world which I can never figure out. Often, I get a chill down the spine as the wonderful world I was just a part of in the book disappears, in a jiffy.
11 I believe the following as an immensely powerful combination, an inspiring trinity which can rally charge me up; in fact it did charge me up more than once. They are ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’, ‘Metallica’ and ‘Old Monk Rum.’
12 I prefer getting hurt rather than hurt the people I love.
13 My cousin who had been with me for a whole evening ended his life that very night. We were pretty close but I couldn’t figure out what he was upto. We share our birthdays and he’s younger to me by one year.
14 I smoked my first cigarette on the last day of the last annual exam. I was in eighth standard then.
15 I tasted liquor for the first time during SSLC vacation. It still lingers in me, memories of the aftermath.
16 Sometimes a fear seeps in me that I will end up as an alcoholic.
17 The only drug I ever did was cannabis. I smoked it thrice and the last time after a few swigs of beer. That was so terrible an experience that I thought I wouldn’t survive the night.
18 I had never thought that I would ever fall in love. But once I did, at the age of 27.
19 I want to die when my dear and near ones are still around. I know it’s selfish but still…
20 I was such a staunch follower of the game of cricket that I used to watch it ball by ball, it was unimaginable to miss a single ball. Somewhere along I lost my interest and I no longer watch it.
21 I hate twenty twenty for I believe it’s everything but cricket.
22 I’m such a traditionalist when it comes to cricket that it pains me to see horizontal bat swats of ‘dashing batsmen’ with poor technique.
23 I never used a mobile phone in my life and I don’t know how to operate it. I don’t think that I’ll ever use one.
24 Though I claim that I’m a non-violent person, the violent thoughts erupt in my mind often makes me quite disturbed.
25 I’m a man of extremes.
