Dear Archie,
I don’t want to call you a
DIARY because dad said I can call you anything. He said that DIARY is a place
where you write everything you learned or the questions you want to ask so that
you can easily remember them. But you have to do it daily. And he said I do not
have to give interviews when I become famous because this DIARY will be enough.
I hate interviews when it comes on TV. I do not get to watch cartoons.
So, I learned following
things today:
1. I saw Shreya and Suyog holding hands today. My best
friend ANGAD said that if boys and girls are holding hands then that means they
are in LOVE. Yuck!
2. I don’t love
Shreya because we didn’t hold hands but I feel strange. It means that I don’t
get to share Lunch with her. I like to share lunch with her because:
a. She is so funny. This one time she told me that when we
grow old Boys and Girls have to have sex.
b. Sex is like a Game. Only adults are allowed to play it.
I don’t know why. It sounds fun to me. I mean Shreya said that in this game
called SEX boys and girl have to go inside a dark room and close the door. It
is like Hide and seek but little different. Here, both boys and girl have to
scream until they find each other. The one who screams the loudest will win. It
is new. I want to have sex with ANGAD. It is unfair that Boys can only play
with girl. I think I will win. Because I can scream very loud. I can even break
glass with my sound.
c. She has big eyes and funny nose.
d. I can talk with her all day If there was no School.
e. It means that we cannot talk from tomorrow. I feel
strange just like the time when I lost my favorite toy ‘Dino’.
3. I hate LOVE. Once you hold hand with a Girl you do not
get to talk with your friends. I do not want to LOVE. I do not want to lose my
friends.
4. Adults are funny. And so are teachers. I learned that If
we do not know answer to a question then it is okay because it means that the
question is SILLY. For example:
a. I asked dad yesterday If I can have sex with my friend
Angad when I grow old. I mean it is just a hide and seek and it is unfair that
a Boy should play with a girl only. He asked me to not ask such SILLY
questions.
b. A week ago my English Ma’am said that God has written
life story for everybody already. She said that We just do what God wrote. So I
asked her today DOES THAT MEAN GOD IS EVIL BECAUSE HE WROTE THAT THE TERRORISTS
WILL KILL MANY CHILDREN IN PAKISTAN TODAY? She shouted at me and asked me to
not ask such silly questions and I felt very bad. God is Bad. Adults are bad.
c. Why can’t school
teach us things we want to learn and why do I have to learn things that I do
not want to learn about? Like why do I have to learn dates in History? Why do I
have to learn English? I do not want to go to England anyway. Why can’t they
tell us where we came from? Why does man look like man and flower look like
flower? Why do not men grow in tree? How does magician float in air? But school
doesn’t answer the questions that really bug you and teach you the things you
really don’t want to do. Wait! Does that mean that school is just killing our
time so that our parents can escape from us? My mom always says it is so peaceful
when I am in School because I make lots of noises in home. That is why she pays
money to school? I mean there is no point in sending a person to a place he
doesn’t want to go. Parents are paying money to school so that they can shut us
up. Are we being punished?
5. I learned that IMPOSSIBLE means Adults way to run away
from things they do not know answer to. I mean my Granny once said that people
used to think it is impossible to fly many years ago and now look at us flying
in planes. IMPOSSIBLE just means that adults are feeling lazy or they are
foolish.
6. My friends lied to me that RAMESH is untouchable. Today
I accidently drank water from his bottle because his bottle and mine look same.
I didn’t die. That means my friends are lying. I will talk with RAMESH from
tomorrow.
7. Why do I have to pay money to shopkeeper uncle to get
things I like? Does his son pay him money? Why can’t we share things?
8. Is Ramesh poor because he is untouchable or he is
untouchable because he is poor?
9. FUCK is a bad word they say. But I heard my sisters
saying it many times on her phone. That means if you are adult it doesn’t
matter if things are bad or good because it is the adults who make rules about
things being good and bad in the first place.
10.Why is it bad to
kill butterfly but not bad to kill a moth? Aren’t they both living things?
11. Are there any white crows?
12. Why didn’t granny
wake up? Why is she still sleeping? Doesn’t she care that I miss her? If old
people go for a long sleep is it necessary to burn them? Is it bad to not cry
although I felt sad that they burn her without asking me? How can she come back
if she has turned into ashes? Is it bad to sleep for a long time? I sleep long
on Saturdays. I am afraid that they will burn me. So I won’t sleep long on
Saturday.
13.Why are adults so
confusing?
I hope you understand
whatever I am saying. Thank God Archie you don’t pretend to have answers to
things you don’t know.
Are you an adult? Do you
have feelings?
Ok then. See you tomorrow!
