I know many guys who had troubled childhood that carried on as a load of worry in later years. It is hard to untangle what is tangled in your mind. During my childhood days, my mom used to push me inside my house anytime a drunkard passed by. Most drunkards used to create a scene in Chennai and I was warned not to meddle with them. It took years for me to stand and face a guy under the influence of alcohol.
My brother used to scare me by holding a cockroach in his hand and I used to run for my life. It was not until I was left alone in a room with many cockroaches that I was able to shed the fear.
Never ever mingle with toxic people. I repeat what I said once. When I was asked to use spectacles, it was just minus 1. When I reached home, one idiot neighbour reacted, “What? Minusss 1. You are blind. You are finished.” In fear, I tried all tricks to beat blindness. Another undiluted idiot suggested that I put coconut oil in my eyes. A fool said “eat one dozen carrots a day.” God, so many self-proclaimed “doctors.” It took years for me to recover from the fear that I would turn total blind.
As I was narrating all this to my pretty friend, she cut short and said: “KISS.”
“What?” I was stunned (joyfully of course).
“Keep it short, stupid,” she vanished.
Words feed thoughts. As kids, we do get influenced a lot and such things have a lasting impression. :)
ReplyDeleteROFL!!!! KISS ....hahah!!! witty she!
ReplyDeletefor u sob sob...stunned joyfully....all in vain!!!
KISS indeed.
ReplyDeletei mean keeping it short, silly :P
Have you over come all your childhood fears?
ReplyDeleteRamesh,
ReplyDeleteGood it was a pretty female friend otherwise you would have lived in fear for whole your life :))) Laughing :))))
Childhood fears can warp the mind, indeed. We have to be mindful. Thank you for visiting my blog, dear friend. I have been working overtime and spending the little free time I have with my grandmother. I am happy to see you are well and keeping cheerful. It's always such a joy to read your anecdotes. You improve my mood 100%! :) Big hugs and lots of love. Namaste
ReplyDeleteServes u right! I would have had to tell wifey otherwise! Joyful it seems. :D
ReplyDeleteI think people who have spent some time with toxic people or in toxic environment will understand what you are saying makes perfect sense!
ReplyDeleteHilarious and thought provoking as always. You are right. Childhood influences have a lasting impact and takes ages to overcome.
ReplyDeleteLOl good one. And don't people always love giving their opinions. Bah. Damn them. Hows you? Wedding in Jan, preps in full swing!
ReplyDeletehmm...advises are voices which makes things worse...so never seek for advise...
ReplyDeletehmm..nice post...and such a witty colleage..!
lol
ReplyDeleteKiss
Ramesh,
ReplyDeleteInstead of listening people dole out advices. they forget God has given only one mouth to speak and 2 ears to listen
Very few people realize that sometimes just a stray comment said in jest to a child could have a huge impact. Very nicely put!
ReplyDeleteTrue, fear is a lifelong enemy.
ReplyDeleteHahaahhaa... I liked the end the best.
lol.. ya many people, may be in all good intentions, dumbs their fears and insecurities into our heads..
ReplyDeleteThis thing really happens. The childhood memories influence throughout our lives! I hate people who offer uncalled for advices!
ReplyDeleteAfter starting on a serious note, you ended in your trademark hilarious manner. Left me with a smile.
ReplyDeleteThis is something which is to be dealt with properly. Parents should always take the role of a psychiatrist and observe their child from a distance. Finding out such problems, taking their side and talking with them goes a long way in helping to get rid of this fear. This is quite difficult to do as children will seldom share such experiences and sometimes they themselves could not understand what is happening to them. So the matures has to use all their experience to find out if any such problems exist.
ReplyDeleteFor this, the first thing that is needed is to spend some time with your children, which most of the working class parents don't do now.So the kids of this generation is sure to have more of such experiences than the kids of yester years.
You have discussed something which is having great implications in life. Nice blog and all your articles gives out a valid message. Great work!!
Best regards
Subu (A travel blogger from God's own country)
Here is a K.I.S.S comment:- first you came out from your fear of drunkards after a few cocktails, later on overcame you fear of insects by living with cockroaches, and, by living with quacks,you should overcome all phobias!- kept it short and(?)
ReplyDeletethe only thing i have always been afraid of, and still am ... is ghost!!!! eeeeee I knw they don't exist but still... eeeee scares me :D
ReplyDeleteyou were scared of lot of things it seems :P
LMAO @ KISS!
ReplyDeleteYour new blog theme is fabulous...loving it !
Somebody told me standing on your head will improve the vision, ever tried? Nowadays Google churns out more doctors.
ReplyDeleteSome of the things that are told to us as kids to scare us or to make us do things that our parents n elders expect us to do, have a negative effect on us at times and it takes long to overcome them. For example, we were told that don't go out in the dark there might be a ghost. Hope we don't repeat the same with our kids.
ReplyDeletepretty lady says KISS and vanishes! Oh Gosh what a disaster! Toshali had her eyes checked last week, she has a power of -1.25 in both eyes..hmm coconut oil did you say? hot or cold?
ReplyDeleteI cant believe that YOU could ever be scared
ReplyDeleteUnfounded fears can last a lifetime. Very easy to scare a child .
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you overcame your fears. :)
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