Letters To Comrade April 18th

To
My Comrade on other side of the world

Hey comrade, Attending marriages when we are preparing for any competitive exams is like a good healthy chicken dancing in front of the chicken shop, very dangerous and too problematic.

Every time I get a marriage invitation I decide not to go till the date of the function but I convince myself to attend one last time instead of my brain and my stomach making decisions sometimes

So I went this time too, small conversations are what we can’t avoid in these types of functions still trying to avoid most of the aunties and uncles, I failed at that mission then I eventually got locked up with one of my distant aunties so we started a small conversation if you call it that way even if one person only talking and giving a thousand devices and the opposite person is just nodding head while enjoying my gulab jamun.

What you are doing right now she asked I said I was preparing for the civil services exam, and she continued “Hoo, all the best, what else are you doing” I said I am writing a blog page about my IAS preparation and about a few other interests of mine”

she continued ho great, she started asking many questions like if any brand promotions came for my blog page. how many followers do you have, why cant you become a writer then, These kinds of questions continued though I didn’t answer any I gave my signature uncomfortable smile and moved from here saying I would come back to her with some more Gulab Jamun

I didn’t turn to her thereafter, most of the time when I say any of my hobbies to someone it becomes very problematic for me to explain to those people I do pursue those hobbies for myself for my happiness if it helps someone in a way it will be great but my hobbies helping or entertaining someone is a by-product not a primary goal of mine

One time I went to the house of our relatives with my grandmother, and after a while, they started asking some questions, the house owner’s uncle asked something my grandmother said to him I play the guitar, he insisted I play the guitar then right at that place, I said no no not right now, then he asked my grandmother is I am giving any shows? she said no, and then he advised her to send me to one particular music teacher in town like that I was like what? why do these people think always about earning money from my passions and taking them to the next level of my hobbies? I just play for myself one other reason is at that time I had a crush on my senior from medical school, she said one time in our conversation that she likes guitar, so that’s an add-on actually to learn guitar properly.

I can’t understand till now, why these aunties and uncles are so keen to measure my likes and passions with how successful and how much I am earning in that hobby. if not earning advise me to stop it altogether.

if no one claps for me also I will sing if I feel like singing, That is so clear to me, this passion for something other than my career is so important for me though I am not so perfect in it, though some people around me don’t like me doing that I will still pursue it.

the amount of peace and self-satisfaction we achieve out of our hobbies is priceless, so I just hope and wish if you have any hobbies do pursue them no matter how good you are in that field, Picasso will do awesome paintings because he practises every but I do love to watch my best friends amateurish funny painting, by the way, we celebrated her first oil painting last week with a 100rs chocolate waffles party.