With due respect
I do not want to address you as ‘dear’. I used to think –
because you think you are tall(er), this should make you more grateful and
humble towards extra inches of yours but to my surprise, the case isn’t so. You
consider yourself as normal. So, I ask. What is your problem with me finding
myself as much okay as you do? Why can you not stop even that faintest
impression of the thought about my height, and stop blabbering seamlessly?
Who am I? Who am I to think so generous of you? Who am I to
even think anything about you without even knowing you? I ask you. You, who
thinks is taller than me. Who am I?
Nobody! I am nobody. And, so are you. You are nobody. You are
nobody to tell me again and again how tall I stand because the moment you do
that you expose the measure of your height to me. Height of how low you can
think. Height of how low you can be to save yourself from some unwanted
complex. Height of how low you feel about yourself that in order to uplift your
own spirit you need to tell me that I am short. Height of how low you can go by
making fun of me in a quick line so that you feel proud after gaining a
positive response about making a nice joke from the people around as tall as
you.
You amaze me for you are this tall.
Because I am happy with how I am, then, why this smoke? Is that
what you are wondering?
Because you lit the fire, kept on whistling the air into the
flames every time they were cooling into embers. Yes! You lit the fire. I have
met the likes of you so many times that I am no more surprised. Rather, I am
saddened. I am saddened because I thought so high of you. Who was I to think?
Never mind.
With due respect, I wish to bring to your kind notice that
you cannot measure my efficiency from the measure of my height. I request you
to stop making yourself happier by mocking at me because that will not help you
in a longer run. It is subconsciously so much rooted inside your head that I am
sure you must be unaware of yourself the reason why I choose to forgive you. I will
anyways surpass you in all fields. Please don’t make a mockery of your own tall
height in that manner. Dignify. Dignify your height by raising the standard of
thinking. Think high because anyways you can’t help stop thinking.
Hoping to meet a ‘dear’ version of your height next time.
Thanking you!
Not yours,
Sincerely.
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