Wednesday, February 13, 2013

An open letter to 'relatives' across the world

Dear relatives,

It's been great to have you guys around to show the rest of the world the strength of our family... However, I would like to mention a few things people like me, always wanted to let you people know, on your 'moral policing' especially, though we never got a chance to. There would be many, who want to say these, so here you are! A few of those things we really wish you knew!
  1. Engineering and medicine are not the only career options!
  2. What to wear, what not to, how to style up etc are absolutely our discretion.
  3. We don't want  to be compared with other's kids. If you dare,compare us with yours!
  4. If we drop our course, we have better plans for our life - well that's what we believe, and we really want you to believe that too (in case you are so concerned about it)
  5. Tattoo, body piercing were invented by our forefathers, so never every complain saying its a 'bigda hua new trend'
  6. As long as you worship Gods who had 18,000 wives or used to smoke up or cheated around, you just can't question our moral side. 
  7. Guys and girls can indeed be friends and share platonic relation, so stop injecting negative thoughts into their head.
  8. If you are on our Facebook friends list, be grateful that we didn't ignore. And if we are posting stuff that you can view, that would mean we are not hiding anything.
  9. Before judging us from our Facebook profile that your kid just showed you, do keep an eye on theirs!
  10. Gals and guys sitting together doesn't make it obvious that they are sleeping together as well. 
  11. Speeding a vehicle is not always rash driving. 
  12. Our age and relationship status is nothing of your concern. Anyway, our parents think we are still kids, so do we!
  13. Not everyone who's unmarried has physical/mental sickness, nor do they need a character check.
  14. Not everyone working at Wipro, Infy, or Microsoft are happy.
  15. We don't have guy friends/gal friends... we just have FRIENDS
  16. We are not bothered about our friends' family background, nor do we want anyone else to investigate on it.
  17. We are Not dating every opposite sex friend that we have. 
  18. We have our parents and friends to match ourselves up with someone. You please take care of  your own business.
  19. Not getting pregnant after 3 months of our marriage doesn't make us infertile!
  20. Don't judge us as long as you haven't spend time with us.
  21. We love our parents, we don't want your approval.
  22. We don't need your consent nor opinion before taking any decision! 
  23. We are not concerned about you life and we expect the same back.
  24. We don't live to impress you  or your folks.

Arrghhh....  if I keep discussing about their concerns, I'll go nuts. So stopping  here as of now.

PS: This doesn't mean my relatives, all of them, are jobless... Well some of them are... others are awesome :D :D

PPS: Applicable for neighbours as well!