Much Ado About Nothing (Indeed)! :P

I’ve been pondering for a couple of days to write about the weird things I noticed when I accompanied my brother for his BITSAT online examination. Many of the aspirants there were accompanied by their parents mostly fathers! Well, He’s (Father) the one to look up to in all sorts of situations; who can pump all sorts of confidence into you even in the worst situations one could possibly imagine!

But, when that so-called confidence graduates to a level where it seems smothering, then it no longer pumps in confidence but, suppresses it instead and agonizingly increases a sense of “fear of letting down your parents!” But, sooner I realized I was wrong!

Parents intend to fulfill every need of their son/daughter, but here are some needs that made me realize the true essence of WTF! :P

• ·         Repeatedly asking them (sons/daughters) if they would like to eat something, or drink something.

• ·         Combing their hair (What on earth is the matter with you? He has come down to take an exam, not to flaunt his Idiotic hair!).

• ·         Asking them to keep their cool for many a times; making sure they (kiddos) had 4-5 pens (What for? Have you not seen his/her hall ticket? It’s an online exam for heaven’s sake!).

• ·         Bidding them bye until he gets entirely into the premises, let alone premises until he covers the last millimeter just before he would fade away into the building! (Why don’t you go take the exam for yourself?)

• ·         After this rigmarole, they involve in an intense (And I really mean intense) conversation with the fellow Maa-Baap’s on how their lad has prepared on to take the examination? (Common now, Get a Life!)

Ironically, most of the parents didn’t even know on what score the students are scaled? (Bina kuch jaane hi fee bhar diya?!)

“All I did was wished my brother the best! And I don’t even recall if I said that. “

The aftermath of “3 hours (Examination Time)” is the only reason that I’m writing this article. Now, when you make your son/daughter comfortable in all ways possible, drive them down to the exam center skip your lunch for them (So that they can savour the success in the exam); comb their hair; stuff their pockets with 5 pens- you do expect some sort of payback and I agree we don’t quite turn up the way you wanted us to be.

But, what I overheard was something that left me gaping at some of the parents after their lads told them how did they fare and how much they scored. 

Some of them rushed towards their parents only to let me know “the paper screwed them hard” and what comes in reply “Don’t worry beta, wanna have some juice?”; “It’s alright, no big deal, let us go eat something you might be hungry”. The earth stood still for a while and the words reverberated for quite some time! If there wasn’t any deal then why smother them before the exam? Why take them all the way to the exam center? Why on earth would you comb their hair? (That was lame BTW). C’mon now.. hit them, slap them hard, you can swear words at least.

 Had it been my father, I would never know what hit me (Apparently, I didn’t figure it out till date :P)

All I urge to say is when there isn’t anything you give a damn about, why create such fuss before he/she takes the examination? Why flaunt the parental love in public when you never expect your kids to shower the same kind of love on you!

“Dad I was screwed like hell, I scored 84/450. Aww....koi baat nahi beta, Lets have some juice you must be tired!”  This phrase hasn’t got out my mind ever since, I could have digested stones, but not this! :/

You want our dad to be the one who beats crap out of us?  You want your kids to be left out of the action called “Hit em hard”? This creates a social outcast and a biased situation- you don’t want that to happen, do you? Give it a thought, it's worth it! :P 

Adios!