The (un)wanted!!!

The other day I came across one of the Bollywood movie trailers named "Wanted". This title was very familiar to me and it kind of struck a chord with my life. One of my friend had been writing posts about "Life" in general when I started seriously giving a thought about my life. "Wanted" to me since my childhood days was a derogatory term. in my "Life" arises two thoughts. Am I "Wanted" or am I "(un)wanted" ??

To answer this question or rather contemplate, I took a cup of coffee, played the "FRIENDS" dvd and lazily sat on my recliner and in a short span of time I really was lost into thoughts imagining about my "Life" so far.My need in the family always varied from time to time but most of the time I was the (un)wanted kid. Everyone hated me, disliked talking to me (of course not my parents). Was all this because I always kept to myself, because I was too frank and blunt when talking to people or was it because I was a loser?

These bunch of questions always kept dancing around my mind just like how numbers used to dance around the head of the kid in Taare Zameen Par. The kept pace with me wherever I went and one final day I realized they were no more. Where did they go? What happened to them all of a sudden? Why did they vanish just like the lightning? Now, I kept asking these questions to myself when I attained enlightenment (just like Buddha :P). No, I am not any Buddha or Mahatma to attain enlightenment but yeah I did finally find an answer to all these questions. It was because I stopped bothering about people to whom I was (un)wanted and started caring and valuing people to whom I was "wanted" and here I am again happy, joyous and enjoying every moment of my "Life".

Ding Dong, Ding Dong...Ohh!!! Someone is ringing the door bell and OMG I had been dreaming ridiculous stuff all the while!!! No, wait. It wasn't ridiculous. All that had been hiding and paining my heart all these days finally came out. Now, I ought to go and answer the door bell else looks like they would break in.

10 things that make you a pucca Hyderabadi

1) However Spellbinding Niagara Falls is, for you Hussain Sagar Lake/Tank Bund is the best.

2) However attractive and famous Statue of Liberty is, Buddha Statue is always on the top of the list for you.

3) Your Hindi always contains the words apunko, tereko, kaiku etc. :)

4) Starbucks is nothing when compared to the Blue Sea Restaurant near Uppal Bus Depot :)

5) Though you shell out more than half of your pay check to auto drivers, you consider traveling in auto to be luxurious.

6) Haggling is your birth right. Literally everything, from a Rs 2 Ice Cream to a Rs 20,00,000 Car.

7) However clean are public restrooms, you still prefer open air restrooms ;)

8) No five star restaurant's food comes closer enough to Gokul Chat or the manchurias, bread omlette, idli's sold on the roadside bandi's.

9) You roam around the malls like Hyderabad Central, City Center, Shoppers Stop, Life Style etc. just to buy a pair of sweat pants.

10) You talk about hating corruption and being another Tagore/Bharateeyudu but end up bribing the cop when you are caught for not possessing the license or not wearing the helmet instead of paying the challan.

If you find at least some of these features in you, then you are getting into the mode of being a Hyderabadi. Welcome to the Gang!! If you find all these features in you, then BINGO!!! You are a pucca Hyderabadi :)