“If given a chance I wouldn’t change a thing. I am very proud that I’m seeing this day. It is all due to my hard work and continuous struggle and I wouldn’t want to change that.”
No this is not the story of my life. This is the standard response that you get from a newly-minted celebrity when posed with the following question:
“If God let you change anything that has happened in the past. Would you like anything to be different?”
Come on interviewers, why do you even ask this question, when you know that the answer will be as exciting as an upcoming tax deadline.
It’s quite surprising that such varied people such as politicians, cricketers, authors, and actors think alike on this matter. It’s like watching all these beauty pageant contestants going through the “world peace” drill again and again.
Come on now NO ONE in this world thinks like me? I mean given a chance, I would definitely dispense-off with the “hard work and struggle” bit. Instead I would replace it with a life-long vacation in Bahamas.
Now if I was asked this question right now… I will certainly shoot off more interesting sound bytes than the stale-bread attempt by the aforementioned.
So here is my wishlist, if I were to change a few things about myself:
1) Let me start with the shallow things first. Now I shouldn’t praise myself.. I know… but then ahem… I think I should win at least one beauty contest. Actually, I did win a beauty contest at the age of 7, (the judge was a pretty smart Alsatian). But I never made it even to the qualifying list ever again. No, not even Miss Block 55 (that’s the block I lived in). All because of my nose, I’m sure.
2) Moving on to the much deeper things in life, things that matter much more than mere looks. Like cars for instance. I would like to exchange my current car with a Lamborghini. Oh, I just realized that I don’t have a car to exchange. Grrr.
3) This talk of conveyance reminds me, I would also like to change an advertisement that used to be aired years ago on national TV. The storyline was as follows:
A man got a new job and returned home to his beaming parents. The parents proudly pointed towards the garage and said “Beta, tumhaare liye wahaan kuch rakha hai” (Son, we have something for you there). The happy man opens the door in anticipation and finds basic model of a bicycle. He then proceeds to ride off to his office in that. Now when I first saw this ad, I promised myself that 15 years down the line, I would never be in such a pathetic position. I would buy that bicycle and not receive it as a gift.
Well, my 15 years are up and I still don’t have that bicycle. Now you know why I wrote this post.
No this is not the story of my life. This is the standard response that you get from a newly-minted celebrity when posed with the following question:
“If God let you change anything that has happened in the past. Would you like anything to be different?”
Come on interviewers, why do you even ask this question, when you know that the answer will be as exciting as an upcoming tax deadline.
It’s quite surprising that such varied people such as politicians, cricketers, authors, and actors think alike on this matter. It’s like watching all these beauty pageant contestants going through the “world peace” drill again and again.
Come on now NO ONE in this world thinks like me? I mean given a chance, I would definitely dispense-off with the “hard work and struggle” bit. Instead I would replace it with a life-long vacation in Bahamas.
Now if I was asked this question right now… I will certainly shoot off more interesting sound bytes than the stale-bread attempt by the aforementioned.
So here is my wishlist, if I were to change a few things about myself:
1) Let me start with the shallow things first. Now I shouldn’t praise myself.. I know… but then ahem… I think I should win at least one beauty contest. Actually, I did win a beauty contest at the age of 7, (the judge was a pretty smart Alsatian). But I never made it even to the qualifying list ever again. No, not even Miss Block 55 (that’s the block I lived in). All because of my nose, I’m sure.
2) Moving on to the much deeper things in life, things that matter much more than mere looks. Like cars for instance. I would like to exchange my current car with a Lamborghini. Oh, I just realized that I don’t have a car to exchange. Grrr.
3) This talk of conveyance reminds me, I would also like to change an advertisement that used to be aired years ago on national TV. The storyline was as follows:
A man got a new job and returned home to his beaming parents. The parents proudly pointed towards the garage and said “Beta, tumhaare liye wahaan kuch rakha hai” (Son, we have something for you there). The happy man opens the door in anticipation and finds basic model of a bicycle. He then proceeds to ride off to his office in that. Now when I first saw this ad, I promised myself that 15 years down the line, I would never be in such a pathetic position. I would buy that bicycle and not receive it as a gift.
Well, my 15 years are up and I still don’t have that bicycle. Now you know why I wrote this post.
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