When Did we Grow up?
You can say "Thanks" to me Later for this awesome compilation. I have tried to find the all of, "when did we Grow up?"
Here it starts:
● From playing “snake game on Nokia” to “dealing with snakes everyday”, we grew up.
● From “feeling lonely with 69 others” to “I’m happy alone”, we grew up.
● From “running behind kites” to “running behind life”, we grew up.
● From “eating strawberry flavour” to “using strawberry flavour”, we grew up.
● From “mele babu na thana thaya”(baby, did you have food) to “maa, aapne khaana khaaya”(mom, did you have food), we grew up.
● From “scrolling on facebook” to “reading on Quora”, we grew up.
● From “I really love you” to “text me once you safely reach home”, we grew up.
● From “hesitating to apologize” to “accepting our mistake”, we grew up.
● From “having 100 friends” to “having 1 real friend”, we grew up.
● From “parents worrying about our health”, to “us worrying about their health”, we grew up.
● From “Lying to our parents to go out with friends” to “lying to our friends to stay at home” we grew up.
● Somewhere between “Being afraid of our parents” and “Praying for our parents”, We grew up.
● Crying for chocolate to crying for love we grew up.
● Mom I need money to Mom do you need money we grew up.
● Dad please drop me to Dad shall I drop you we grew up.
● Hating to sleep to loving to sleep we grew up.
● Playing real games to playing games in others life we grew up.
● Suffering from diarrhoea to suffering from depression we grew up.
● Mom I am scared to Mom I am fine we grew up.
● Hating green veggies to eating green veggies we grew up.
● Getting hurt physically to getting hurt mentally we grew up.
● Creating dreams to killing our dreams we grew up.
● She is my crush to she is my ex we grew up.
● Lets meet and plan to lets plan and meet we grew up.
● Breaking our toys to breaking our heart we grew up.
● Living life to lying to life we grew up
● When lays and kurkure became chakhna for us.
● When I turned off my last seen and blue ticks on whatsapp.
● From avoiding those hugs and kisses from mom to wanting them more.
● When we siblings started sleeping separately.
● From using facebook 24*7 to deactivating facebook.
● From being religious to non religious.
● When I realised likes on a picture doesn't matter but having all my moments collected there at one place matters.
● When I realised the love behind the restrictions parents have always imposed on you.
● When I realised I just need a close group of 3–4 friends instead of 30–40 friends.
● When i realised enjoying a movie with your family at home gives me a infinity of love.
● When I realised I'm privileged than many more in this world
● When I was wiping tears from my parents eyes while bottling up my emotions.
● When I was the one giving philosophical lessons to bear this life to my parents.
● When I started crying silently in washrooms and in blankets than crying out loud to grab everyone's attention.
● When I started hiding my emotions.
● When I started solving the biggest problems of life by aligning them with the matter of life and death.
● When I realised life is not fair but you'll still have to live.
● When I realised your mom is bestest friend you can have from the time when I used to hate mom for petty things.
● When you realise everyone is honest till the time he/she gets the opportunity.
● When you realise society is eating you.
● When I realised other's view point doesn't matter at all in a long run.
● When I stopped explaining myself to people and walk away. You don't need to answer everyone.
● When i started developing empathy for others.
● When I started spending more time on quora than on other social media.
● When I started enjoying the ordinary.
● When I started loving spending more time with kids and elders.
● When I started writing answers for myself.
● When I stopped pleasing everyone.
● When I learnt to speak No.
● When i started to form my own opinions.
● When i started empathising towards poors and LGBT.
● When i stopped living for myself and started living for parents.
● When I realised it is Not mandatory to leave food to express your anger. (I used to practice this ritual a lot to irritate mom… there was a time when I went for 10 days without food)
● When I realised forever is the biggest lie.
● From a responsibility for others to the one who carries a responsibilities, we grew up.
● From smiling on seeing toys to smiling so that others smile, we grew up.
● From a carefree soul to a bothering soul, we grew up.
● From the ones who were stubborn to the ones who understand the situations, we grew up.
● From a child to a teenager to an adult, we grew up.
● From the ones who thought when would we grow up to the ones who want to be a child again, we grew up.
● From ones who used to hate Tinda and Ghiya to the ones who eat anything made by mom quietly, we grew up.
● When you start washing your own clothes rather than keeping it for your mom.
● When you go for groceries shopping and get to know the prices of rice per kg.
● When you wake up in the morning and find that there is no one to wake you up like when you were school.
● When you start traveling in bus or local trains alone ..not in your dad's car .
● When we start facing the problems we used to see your parents facing.
● When your name starts being called as maam .
● When you are ready to pay your own expenses.
● When you switch from Facebook to Quora.
● When you stop making girlfriends just for time pass.
● When you mean what you say.
● When you start thinking before speaking.
● When you go to the fruit market for getting just 3 bananas .
● When you start saving your money ( not for buying anything but for gifting your mom dad )
● When you visit your parents with little gifts which they needed.
● When you transfer 100rs daily to your brother so that he don't ask for money from someone.
● When you order food from a different city to your mom when your mom is tired enough.
● When you start calling your mom rather than ignoring.
● When you start helping rather than asking for help.
● When you start planning for marriage ( not because you are so deeply in love but just to have a basic idea of future )
● When you start donating your old clothes.
● When you start appreciating others.
● Somewhere between broken pencils to erased dreams, we all grew up.
● Somewhere between waving to the plane to waving from the plane, we grew up.
● Somewhere between crying going to school to crying leaving the school, we grew up.
● Somewhere between ‘A B C' to ‘aey, bc', we grew up.
● Somewhere between bournvita to protein shake, we grew up.
● Somewhere between katti to blocked, we grew up.
● Somewhere between ‘ground mai aaja' to ‘online aaja', we grew up.
● Somewhere between addition to integration, we grew up.
● Somewhere between believing in happy endings to accepting the truth, we grew up.
● From studying everyday in school to studying a night before in college!
● From crying in front of parents to crying in the room alone without any sound.
● When you say; you wish you hadn’t grown up!
● For me; when the milk cost 16 rupees a litre to now when it’s 55.
● From waiting for the holidays to end and meet friends; to longing for a single holiday out of your responsibilities.
● When the friendships were crystal clear, with no bias and no trust issues to now; where everyone is untrustworthy and unpredictable.
● Time when you start finding kids irritating ;).
● Kitchen sets, Cars, Barbies and cartoons start seeming stupid.
● When the world seems wrong and your decisions seem right.
● When you become self centric; all you do is love spending time with yourself.
● From crying for toys in childhood to crying for useless people in adulthood!
● When you understand that no one loves you more than your parents. No one!
● You act mature; when you outgrow both puberty and adolescence you wake up and get into senses!
● When you become independent; and manage everything solo.
● Somewhere between shakalaka boom boom to F.R.I.E.N.D.S, we grew up.
● When your parents couldn't afford and refused you a toy you wanted desperately.
● When you saw your childhood crush holding hands with a cool dude.
● That first time you were caught cheating in exams.
● When your friend told you how exactly you were born and you couldn't believe that shit about your parents.
● When you got your first period or trimmed your face for the first time.
● When your friend made you watch porn for the first time.
● When the cut off of your dream college went up to 99.9%.
● That first dent on your father's car or accident riding a bike.
● When your parents emotionally and actually started looking up to you.
● Transition from school to college, from pen to calculator.
● Failing in a subject and studing hard and passing it later with flying colours.
● Being rejected in a job interview even after answering all questions correctly.
● That phase of unemployment when every person you adored mocked at you.
● Finally transition from college to career.
● From pocket money to getting credit for the first salary.
● Buying first vehicle after saving money for a year and taking a loan.
● When you abused your boss in front of your best friend and next day your boss called you in his/her office.
● That one-sided love which permanently broke a piece from your heart.
● Buying groceries and fuel from your own pocket.
● You tasted that cold liquid which looked like urine and you liked it.
● That death of a loved one which you couldn't digest for years.
● From being single to chatting all night inside your comforter.
● From sharing love to sharing bed. (Marriage)
● Getting a new life on this planet with your genes in it.
● When you were si sick that you thought you are going to die but doctor diagnosed an allergy.
● Spending all your earnings on your family and happily letting go your own needs.
● Taking your parents on vacations from your own earnings and seeing smile and satisfaction on their faces.
● Seeing people come and go in and out of your life during different phases of life.
● When you spent all your savings on an emergency.
● Somewhere between *crying loudly* to seek attention to *crying silently* to avoid attention we grew up..
● Somewhere between 7 panipuris for 1 rupee to 1 panipuri for 7 rupees we grew up.
● Somewhere betwenn ground pe aaja (come to ground) to online aaja (come online) we grew up.
● Somewhere between craving for pizza to craving for home food we grew up.
● Somewhere between having 100 of friends to having 1 genuine friend we grew up.
● Somewhere between running after kites to playing pubg we grew up.
● Somewhere between beliving in happy ending to accepting reality we grew up..
● Somewhere between waking up at 6 am to sleeping at 6 am we grew up
● Somewhere between broken pencils to broken hearts we grew up.
● Somewhere between crying out loud for what we want to hold your emotions and sacrifice things we grew up.
● Somewhere between parents fulfilling our dreams to we fulfilling parents dreams we grew up.
● Somewhere between eagerly waiting to forever waiting we grew up.
● Somewhere between lets meet and plan to lets plan and meet we grew up..
● Somewhere between we want to grow up to we want to be child again we grow up..
● Somewhere between stealing eclairs from your sister to bringing silk for her we grew up.
● Somewhere between avoiding uncles marriage to attending friends marriage we grew up..
● Somewhere between washing powder Nirma girl to the freaking Airtel girl, we grew up
● Somewhere between waiting for the presents to waiting for presence, we grew up
● Somewhere between candy crush to getting crushed by crush, we grew up
● Somewhere between boost in the morning to beer at night, we grew up
● Somewhere between two chocolates for a best friend to two special bumps on birthday, we grew up
● Somewhere between police & thief to Pubg, we grew up
● Somewhere between feeling ashamed of sitting beside opposite gender to hesitating to ask her/him out, we grew up
● Somewhere between FLAMES to F.R.I.E.N.D.S, we grew up
● Somewhere between fighting with siblings to fighting for them, we grew up
● Somewhere between listening bedtime stories to watching WhatsApp stories, we grew up
● Somewhere between boasting the number of rakhis to running away from them, we grew up
● Somewhere between running to the washroom during advertisements to skipping intro in Netflix, we grew up
● Somewhere between stealing money to stealing hearts, we grew up ;)
● From holding dad’s hand while crossing the road to helping grandparents on roads, we all grew up.
● From never using white crayon in sketchbook to realising the importance of every colour of life we all grew up.
● From making tantrums in front of mom to handle mood swings of our boyfriend/girlfriend we all grew up.
● From crying for small things in front of parents to crying alone in washroom we all grew up.
● From playing with ball to playing with feelings we all grew up. ( for those, who play with feelings)
● From never lying to mom to lying about our food in hostel we all grew up.
● From going on vacations with parents to taking them on vacations we all grew up.
● From making promises to mom to never giving commitments in relationships we all grew up.
● From “ Demanding gifts from parents to Getting them gifts” We grew up
● From “Hold my hand son, Stay calm to Im here Dad be with me” We grew up
● From “ I won't have Dinner at home tonight, Mom to Cancelling plans to eat dinner at home” We grew up
● From TV to phone.
● From crying on mother lap to cry in bathroom.
● From oily hairs to coloured one.
● From chillar to ATM cards.
● From serials to webseries.
● From ignoring the kissing scene in front of parents to watching porn in private.
● From a large friends group to a single best friend.
● From college to job.
● From dreaming in night to accepting the truth.
● From chuski to cold coffee.
● From family trip to solo trip.
● From asking money to giving money.
● From saying ' yes' to NO.
● From friends to F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
● From pocket money to first salery.
● From chochos to protein shake.
● From ground to battleground.
● From a,b,c to sinA , sinB ,sinC ( I don't know if these things exist in math or not) .
● From call to video call.
● And at last from shinchan to shinchan;-)
● Somewhere between knowing the difference between a house and a home we grew up.
● Somewhere between “Mom cook something delicious” to “Mom you cook delicious” we grew up.
●Somewhere between trying to fix the switch between on and off to fixing ourselves between ups and downs we grew up.
●Somewhere between fighting with our siblings to fighting with ourselves we grew up.
● Somewhere between neatly tied ponytail to messy bun we grew up.
● Somewhere between remembering birthdays to setting reminders we grew up.
●Somewhere between watching Thomas and Friends to watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S we grew up.
●Somewhere between wanting our hair to grow longer to wanting our hair to grow healthier we grew up.
●Somewhere between being ashamed for hurting our enemies to being proud of outshining our friends we grew up.
● Somewhere between “Mom ,what should I wear ?”to “Mom ,I won’t wear that .”we grew up.
●Somewhere between taking chocolates from strangers to blocking strangers we grew up.
● Somewhere between sleeping from 9 to 9 to working from 9 to 9 we grew up.