Ageless Magic

Yesterday I turned 29. No Big Deal! Except just two days back a girl who was there for interview too asked me if it would be my first job. I smiled, said no I have worked before. She asked how many years of experience. I said about 8 yrs, she kept shaking her head and kept saying, ‘You look too young for 8 years of experience’.

I find it hard to believe that I could pass for a 20 or 21 year old, especially since I now keep my hair long and have taken to wearing salwar-kameezes to work. Nevertheless such reaction is amusing. I remember when I was 19 and in my last year at college, I so did not want to be 20. It had nothing to do with growing old it is just that I wanted to be a teenager forever. Somehow I feel I have managed to do that, no, not to look like a teenager but to feel like one.

The day after the interview I watched two Harry Potter movies and like that was not enough in the night the cable guy showed ‘The Chronicles of Narnia”. I had gotten hooked to Harry Potter series after watching ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’, it was between my last two jobs. I read all the five books back to back. I live books, period. So, all the adventures that Harry goes through I live them too. I believe these books somewhere satisfy the child who used to build structures out of cardboards and believed them to be castles. Who would sit along on the terrace wall facing the western express highway looking out at the colourful Maruti cars, dreaming of flying. Who would roam in the wilderness that surrounded Abhinav School, sometimes alone, sometimes with her friend Pinky and let her imagination run wild.

The 7th book in the Harry Potter series should have been out by now, July is almost over. Waiting impatiently.