I am no storyteller.. Fair warning!
This is a story of a neglected child who finally decided to strike back.
There she was.. locked out of the room again. They always did that to her. Brushing her away so they could discuss 'grown up' stuff. 'You are too young' they told her. 'Only two and half years younger' she wanted to yell. But she couldnt. And now she was stuck alone with no one to play. Why couldnt they include her in their games? She knew they were just pretending to be all grown up, trying to compete with the other gang in the family. They were doing to her what this other gang did to them. They wanted to feel like adults and that they could do only if they made her feel small. Why did she even come to her aunt's house? At her home, there was the grandmother who loved her and would never tire of playing with her! She was her grandmother's favourite..
Finally they let her play with them. After being coerced, undoubtedly. Well.. its about time they learnt she wasnt all that young. But she couldnt win against them. They had picked a difficult game. How could she get back at them if she couldnt win against them? bulb flash as the grandmother enters. She started to cry. Now they would understand whats its like to be punished for no reason.
Epilogue: They all grew up and despite the scars which left their mark on their personalities, they didnt kill each other and in fact are still on talking terms.
11 comments:
ha ha ha. huh huh.
you can write baby. write fiction, i mean :D
i don't remember locking you out. but you give me another angle to think of things. you were the fav, we felt left out. we thot let her play chess with grandma who will deliberately lose to make her feel happy. we will play our own games where there would be no favouritism.
hah!!! ofcourse u dont remember this.. You have convenient memory dont u?
u urself admitted u were bad at card games... so whats the talk of favouritism and deliberate losing?
u cant deny that patti deliberately lost in chess to make u feel happy. she was quite a whiz at the game actually
do the both of u play chess or memory now? maybe u can have a match now.
@ rama - i am not denying anything abt pati.. i am just saying given ur own admission of how bad u were at games, i wudnt have needed favouritism to win ;-)
@renu - i dont play chess anymore.. god its such a long game. who has patience for it? but a memory match doesnt sound bad.. i havent played it in such a long time. Though technically acc to ramya, it was 5,3,2 rather than memory.
hey 5,3,2 reminds me of something. rama shd identify with ur predicament. coz on the other side of the family, there were three of us in the same age group and we liked to play this game but it meant keeping the kiddo- rama- out. so we would play some normal type games to satisfy her and then proceed with our favourite game by making her someone's team member. god, children are so mean to younger ones. am never having a sibling for my child.
@ renu
U r talking of the other side of ur family.. didnt u recognise the other gang in our family that i mentioned in the blog?
of course i did. and i was part of this other gang, but there was yet another gang which did the same to us. so we have all been there, experienced it all.
all this 'gang' business reminds me of angoor :P
i said i had bad memory and bad luck not that I was bad at games. and it is not favouritism of games really but favouritism in grandchildren that i was referring to. we probably wanted to leave u out coz we felt out
Yeah right.. see your persecution complex started way before I did anything to you!!!
no persecution complex here. it was cold, hard fact
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