go on.. make my day

i recently went through a phase where i was the youngest living 75 year old in existence...
hahahaha.. bet you're wondering how i did that??
see okay .. it takes years of practice and you can only eat raw eggs and drink strawberry crush while wearing yellow shorts before you are ready to perform the above-mentioned feat..
ok..ok..oh..kay! i'll stop

basically what happened was.. that i felt like i was 75 years old.. . i was tired , lethargic , disgusted with the human race , pessimistic and angry .. plus i felt like feeding my cats ( which i don't have )
.. now i am not saying that it is the prerogative of 75 year olds to feel like that.. it's just that i didn't feel vibrant , enegetic , young or even alive for that matter.
i had no urge to dye my eyelashes yellow ,wear crazy mismatched clothes and call people 'dude' or 'babe'.. which is what young people do .. right?
living with a younger sister obviously did not help matters. particularly since her number one pastime is to constantly remind me how old i am and make crazy jokes about how she has the rest of her life before her whereas i apparently have one foot in the grave ( ah..the sweet joys of having a sibling..nothing beats it.)

however it all changed one sunny afternoon when i went into a shop full of soft toys..
now the shop in question is an adorably cute one full of rows and rows of im-so-sweet-ill-give-you-diabetes soft toys..
and as soon as i entered it.. i went into raptures and began giggling and cuddling the cute things..

all this while, an old lady was watching me..
soon , she came up to me and said
'" ah luv..it is so sweet to see a pretty young thing like yourself enjoying herself "
at this of course , i looked around with faint curiosity to see who the ' pretty young thing' was.. . and when i realised she meant me.. my jaw almost hit the floor ( yes..it does happen you know )

me ..a young thing ???a pretty young thing ?? what??? WHAT?
i felt like i had just won the lottery and married johnny depp .. all in one day! wow!!

so for the rest of the day i walked around on cloud nine... with a skip in my step and a sparkle in my eyes..
now this may sound weird to all of you
but fact is.. its been so long since anybody had complimented me or said anything vaguely positive and/or favorable about me that i had started feeling about as attractive as a rotten tomato.. (with a smell to match )
so even if anybody had told me that my left toenail was really cute.. i would have probably married them ..
this utterly unexpected comment was enough to make me hyperventilate and go into cardiac arrest..

of course, the poor old lady might have been blind or suffering from dementia but the whole point is - she gave me a compliment ..
think about it ..
a few simple words from an absolute stranger ( by which i mean i had not bribed or threatened her ) made my day.. ( possibly my decade considering the chances of such things happening to me again are as remote as me actually marrying johnny depp..and we all know that's not happening anytime soon..sigh..)

anyway what i realised was this:
1.i am not 75
2.i am young (mutually conclusive , you see)

and what i have to say is..
firstly , take the time out to compliment people..
don't make a habit of it beacuse then your compliments won't be worth much ..
but if you really mean it go on..make someone's day
remember " what goes around , comes around ".. think how good they'll feel and think about what a high you'll get ..
there's never a better time to make someone smile.

secondly , " never underestimate the power and beauty of your youth ".
being young is the most wonderful thing .. take advantage of it and do anything and everything to make the best out of it..
always remember .. no matter how old you are , there is always someone older than you..

and on that positive note , i shall go tell my sister that she looks like angelina jolie ..
( and then maybe i'll laugh in her face )
oh well..