Red T-shirt; Just For A Change
My friend, who was waiting outside my room for me came in shouting with impatience, ‘Now, what is it that you are doing? Come fast!’
‘Abe, why are you standing naked? Showing your muscles to frighten others?’
‘I haven’t got any t-shirts to wear,’ said I, still deciding what to wear, puzzled.
‘You don’t need one. Come like this,’ he snapped. I knew he was very hungry; of course, he always gets hungry as it gets time for dinner. The mess is on the ground floor of the hostel for the employee’s, who are single, and since it’s an employee’s hostel there is no separate hostel for girls, or in a more decent words of gentlemen, for young beautiful ladies.
‘Ah! They all will run away if I go like this.’
‘Come on! Let them see what you have got.’
‘You don’t understand. I haven’t got anything to wear. One t-shirt is dirty; one is the torn one; one I don’t like; one I washed sometime ago and is wet; one I wore to the gym and is smelling of sweat.’
‘That’s why I say, come like this,’ he waited for a split second and continued, 'Or, why don’t you wear the red one, the one you wore yesterday for the movie,' he said that with a sarcastic smile and his face glew with happiness -- the happiness of the triumphed warrior returning from the battlefield.
Just two days ago I had bought this red t-shirt with other two; one green and other blue. We were out shopping in a mall that day when my friend had asked me why I am suddenly buying t-shirts with all colors under the shades of rainbow when I never wear them. Really, I never wore them before; never would I have if this thought would not have occurred to me: ‘this is the only time, imagine after five years, maybe I will be married, perhaps have children’s. Would it be possible for me to wear such bright colors then? And imagine when am grown old, and when I look at youngsters and their modern clothes, and realize that I never wore such colors in my whole life, would I not feel sad then? Maybe I will not, but why leave this only chance that I have got, that we all get only once. Let me wear bright colors. Let me live with the colors, for you don’t know from which moment your life will become bland and colorless.’ It was this thought that has brought a sudden change in me; to wear colorful clothes; eat all varieties of dishes, and every time you go out to eat, eat in a new place; learn about all types of instruments and trees and cultures and languages and people; experience new things, because life is all about change. So, it makes me feel that when I will be old and tired, and will sit down to summarize my whole life, in those late hot afternoons, dozing, before falling asleep, I would be able to go for my last sleep with a happy light heart.
‘Hmm.’ I looked at him, and couldn’t stop myself from smiling too. I took out the red t-shirt from cupboard. Wore it. Made my hair. And walked out with him to the dinner hall.
As we entered the dinner hall, I greeted all my friends with a smile, an occasional smile that we give when we cross a person we know, as they smiled back at me with wagging heads. But there was something different about their smiles, each one of them, something peculiar, it was not the regular ones that I have come to associate them with by now. It was broader, more warmer, that goes deep into the bottom of your heart.
I was taking salad, and keeping them on one side of my plate when another friend of mine came from back and remarked, ‘Red t-shirt, you look too confident today,’ and I could only give a sincere polite smile before he walked away.
When I took a chair, and greeted my friend sitting on that very dining table, he frowned,’ Red t-shirt! You have got a lot of confidence in you today.’
‘Oh, really! I do ? Why? I look confident everyday, every time. Doesn’t I?’ asked I with a bit of anger and a little bit of action to compliment it, hiding my smile that only an experienced actor can do.
‘Haan, you do. But today you look very confident.’ To divert the topic of discussion I asked him with a bit of curiousness where he was in the evening as I went looking for him to his room, and we talked about everything else, leaving red t-shirt aside.
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Whenever you ask someone about them and show an excessive interest (though, it maybe a false interest sometimes) to know what and how it happened to them, and make them feel like an important person, they will always tell you about it, leaving 'other' conversations aside.
‘Abe, why are you standing naked? Showing your muscles to frighten others?’
‘I haven’t got any t-shirts to wear,’ said I, still deciding what to wear, puzzled.
‘You don’t need one. Come like this,’ he snapped. I knew he was very hungry; of course, he always gets hungry as it gets time for dinner. The mess is on the ground floor of the hostel for the employee’s, who are single, and since it’s an employee’s hostel there is no separate hostel for girls, or in a more decent words of gentlemen, for young beautiful ladies.
‘Ah! They all will run away if I go like this.’
‘Come on! Let them see what you have got.’
‘You don’t understand. I haven’t got anything to wear. One t-shirt is dirty; one is the torn one; one I don’t like; one I washed sometime ago and is wet; one I wore to the gym and is smelling of sweat.’
‘That’s why I say, come like this,’ he waited for a split second and continued, 'Or, why don’t you wear the red one, the one you wore yesterday for the movie,' he said that with a sarcastic smile and his face glew with happiness -- the happiness of the triumphed warrior returning from the battlefield.
Just two days ago I had bought this red t-shirt with other two; one green and other blue. We were out shopping in a mall that day when my friend had asked me why I am suddenly buying t-shirts with all colors under the shades of rainbow when I never wear them. Really, I never wore them before; never would I have if this thought would not have occurred to me: ‘this is the only time, imagine after five years, maybe I will be married, perhaps have children’s. Would it be possible for me to wear such bright colors then? And imagine when am grown old, and when I look at youngsters and their modern clothes, and realize that I never wore such colors in my whole life, would I not feel sad then? Maybe I will not, but why leave this only chance that I have got, that we all get only once. Let me wear bright colors. Let me live with the colors, for you don’t know from which moment your life will become bland and colorless.’ It was this thought that has brought a sudden change in me; to wear colorful clothes; eat all varieties of dishes, and every time you go out to eat, eat in a new place; learn about all types of instruments and trees and cultures and languages and people; experience new things, because life is all about change. So, it makes me feel that when I will be old and tired, and will sit down to summarize my whole life, in those late hot afternoons, dozing, before falling asleep, I would be able to go for my last sleep with a happy light heart.
‘Hmm.’ I looked at him, and couldn’t stop myself from smiling too. I took out the red t-shirt from cupboard. Wore it. Made my hair. And walked out with him to the dinner hall.
As we entered the dinner hall, I greeted all my friends with a smile, an occasional smile that we give when we cross a person we know, as they smiled back at me with wagging heads. But there was something different about their smiles, each one of them, something peculiar, it was not the regular ones that I have come to associate them with by now. It was broader, more warmer, that goes deep into the bottom of your heart.
I was taking salad, and keeping them on one side of my plate when another friend of mine came from back and remarked, ‘Red t-shirt, you look too confident today,’ and I could only give a sincere polite smile before he walked away.
When I took a chair, and greeted my friend sitting on that very dining table, he frowned,’ Red t-shirt! You have got a lot of confidence in you today.’
‘Oh, really! I do ? Why? I look confident everyday, every time. Doesn’t I?’ asked I with a bit of anger and a little bit of action to compliment it, hiding my smile that only an experienced actor can do.
‘Haan, you do. But today you look very confident.’ To divert the topic of discussion I asked him with a bit of curiousness where he was in the evening as I went looking for him to his room, and we talked about everything else, leaving red t-shirt aside.
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Whenever you ask someone about them and show an excessive interest (though, it maybe a false interest sometimes) to know what and how it happened to them, and make them feel like an important person, they will always tell you about it, leaving 'other' conversations aside.
posted by prem at 11:28 AM
9 Comments:
sahi he vidu....ye red-tshirt funda kya he be...koi mil gaya?
I agree with the Red T-shirt funda! :)
Now is the time to wear bright colors.. if not now, then when ?? :)
btw, that tip at the end definitely works ;)
btw .. its good to hear u talk of variety in life ./.
but dnt forget to wash dat red t shirt !!
hehe ...red T-shirt saved you eh ?? :D
prem mind making ur comments more clear with respect to my recent blog!!
Sarit: ya it works sometimes as far as I know, but use it at your own risk :)
Pushkala: what do u mean 'good to hear from me of variety of life'? Does that mean u didnt expect it from me.....come on! ......I will come back to clearing my previous comments.
Rathna: ya maybe ur true,......but comeon you too dont start out with 'red', I dont wanna see everyone in 'red' when I step out tomorrow morning ;)
Karthik: Heay what?.....anyway, as u have asked me now, I think i will have to tell....ya, you know when I went out in 'red' last time......there was a bull after me ;)
mm... I guess all of u ppl (the previuos commentators and the writer) are in the 'older' generation that consciously needs to 'think' of wearing a red t-shirt to enjoy that 'variety of life' :D:D:P lol. no offence, but for me, it comes naturally. I'm at home in all bright colors, concidering my fav is bright orange. :D , never really had such a long and complicated thought process before buying a t-shirt :P. but anyways, I think for me it applies to diiferent things...
but good point.. 'if not now, then when?" I like it! :D it's a wonderful incentive to do wonderfully crazy things... :D
@Amie:...its good that you are already into 'if not now then when'....
@Slice: ...fashion repeats itself! :D.....red is a symbol of love, vitality, friendliness, cheerful, etc......its a mast color!
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