The title says it all! And I know everyone’s going to agree with me at this point. I mean seriously what’s wrong with us? Even God must be wondering all the time “What IS their problem!? What do they want!? Why wont they just be happy for once!?”
But we, human beings just cannot help being NOT this way. It’s a natural tendency of human beings to never be content with what we have. I guess God has created us with some ‘special’ ingredients or something which make us so impossible. We just cannot help but complain, complain and complain ALL THE TIME!
Let alone others, I’ll give you MY very own example. After I got done with my Inter exams last May, I was super happy. I had decided to party continuously for the next few months. My NED test wasn’t due until the next 5 months (Plus 3 more months free after that which makes it 8 freakin’ months of FREEEEDOM!!) So in short I had months and months of free time ahead of me. No more studying, no more college (which meant no more of that hideous off white and green uniform everyday and waking up 6 in the morning) No more staying up all night and scanning all the books and feeding the information into our tiny little brains. NO MORE TENSION! What could be more amazing than this? Perfect life huh?
Little did I know that this freedom-packed vacation a.k.a “PERFECT LIFE” would eventually turn out to be a nightmare for me.
Well, it did seem perfect at first. The first few months went by in a daze. I celebrated each day like my birthday or something. I’d sleep all I want. Spend all day with my laptop. Facebook all I want. Go out all I want. Watch movies all night .. (well you get the idea?) But gradually all the excitement started dying down. Slowly I ran out of things to do. I got bored of doing the same things over and over again. I got bored of all the freedom. I became a prisoner in my very own house.
Soon a lot of my friends got busy with their lives. Most of them started off with their universities. It seemed like everyone around me had something or the other to do. It seemed like everyone around me HAD A LIFE!! Unlike me. I started getting jealous of my sisters because they got to go to school everyday. Because they got homework everyday. Because they got tired after coming home and used to pass half of their day by sleeping. I couldn’t even do THAT. Because I was just NEVER TIRED. I was just tired of not being tired! All the free time drove me crazy. I used to scream and tear my hair off because I just had NOTHING TO DO! AAAAAAAA
Soon my helplessness turned to desperateness and I started working in a school as a (computer :p) teacher. I was happy once again. I was busy. I had plenty of work to do. So much work that not a month later I was craving for my free time again. I left my job after three months (Man! Did they suck the blood out of me or what :l phew!) and now here I am today. TIRED, EXHAUSTED, WEARY, OVERBURDENED, WEAKENED, TIRED (Oh wait that’s already done) and all DRAINED OUT. (PAF KIET sure knows how to make the kids go bonkers) I miss those eight months of frustration more than anything. I’d do anything just to get even a day off.
By Marium Aqeel
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