Games people play

As a kid, I was rather good at this game of langadi...trying  to one leggedly  catch other kids running on two legs.

In fact, third grade, I was so good, that I soon had kids bribing me before PT class with chocolates and felt pens, just so that I would spare them.

One day it reached a stage, where all the five in the ring, had bribed me, and there were no Indians to cook, so as to speak,  and I had to leave the ring half way, shamefacedly much to the total amazement of the other kids. My reputation of course lay in tatters. I was no longer infallible in their eyes.

It was a lesson well learned.

I realise this when I see FB throw old posts every morning at me. How much I used to write my candid thought in those days.

It's only now, that I've stopped writing my deepest thoughts and fears because I fear it be recognised by the people who have caused the thought to occur, and maybe create unsolvable ripples in the relationship.

I realise it is entirely my loss. I need to write more often without fear of fear.