So after the high comes the low. For
weeks in March , I have been on an overdrive. My race day was coming and I was
too eager to make it, and I crossed the 10% rule. The result was my first
injury, sharp pain in my hamstring, while running one time. As the pain persisted,
I went to the Doc, and turns out that I pronate, which means I walk like
Charlie Chaplin. The result was a pair of Orthotics shoes and lots of
physiotherapy. I missed my race, but there is always more to come.
But hey, what's life without a bit of "Melo"
and bit of "Drama" from time to time to keep it exciting. And
excitement is what I seek all the time. But along with the personal highs and
lows, work pressure kept me from blogging, highlights of which being, my Boss
telling me that as a designer I should have an EGO.
Now that got me thinking and, as usual,
after hours of thought, I asked "Baba Googleswar" and so I typed
" how to get an ego?". Now ego is not something I can get at Walmart
or even at the Macy sale. Its heavy stuff. More often in life I have been
intrigued by the term EGO. How do people have EGO? What do these Egoistic
people do that I can't?
After doing the necessary research on
the Net on Ego, and egoism, I realized that People with Ego usually do the
following - 1. Pretend like they are the best.
2. Give everybody around them a real hard time.
So I thought, maybe , if I cannot have an Ego, at least I can pretend to have one. I decided to do this experiment of "pretending to have an ego" for a while. Needless to say, it ended in a disaster, as people generally misinterpreted "my high and mighty ways" and asked me why I was sniffing a lot (do you have a cold? or worst, why are you not laughing? anything wrong/ are you sick today?"
So I realized, being stark raving MAD,
and driving everyone around me crazy was much better than having an Ego. I don't
want miss out on all the fun that life has to offer. Or laughing at simple
things, or pulling legs, or letting the other person win ( an argument/ or in life),
just like that. Without a reason. Hell ya!!....It's nice to be
important, but it is more important to be nice. It's important for me to give
in to small whims and fancies. And to see a smile, a happy smile.......it warms
my heart, every time.
And that makes me a Heroine. Not a
fairy-tale one, but a real life heroine. Not only can I rise to the occasion,
save the day, but also rescue the less fortunate. My life is not about just me
, but also about the people in it. And above all, I am not waiting to be
rescued, I AM doing the rescue operation. That makes me invincible. Give me a
pumpkin, I won't be able to turn it into a gown and a glass slipper, but surely
I can make a pumpkin splice latte out of it.
The age of chivalry is long gone. Now
it is the age of Heroes/ Heroines. So here's my rules on how to be a Heroine in
real life -1. A Heroine is neither a Saint nor a Slut, she is a human being of flesh and blood. She is the real thing (without preservatives). So that means she is fallible and flawed. She makes mistakes and she rectifies them.
2. She is the shoulder to lean on for everyone around her, she is the rock solid support- she has the mental strength of a Superhuman.
3. She bears her loss with pride and dignity. She bears her cross too ( she takes responsibility of her own actions) .
4. She lets you win the war, but a in doing so, she has won you over.
5. Every Princess has her castle, every Heroine has her Mind - a place where you can never enter without her permission, trespassers beware it is a well guarded.
6. A Heroine saves the day, recues the less fortunate.
7. A Heroine does not break rules, she makes all new ones. She is wise enough to be foolish some of the time.
8. A true Heroine has soft hands,.....soft hands and a sharp mind.
9. A true real life Heroine may look like a delicate dandelion, but she is made of steel.
10. Last but not the least, like the Hindi movie Heroine, the real life Heroine can dance to any damn item song. This is the most important quality of a modern day real life Heroine.
PS: Even as a Heroine, I can waddle as I walk, like Charlie Chaplin.
