what am i thinking???

Its 2 a.m. ....11 January...my birthday. After chatting on the phone for 2 hours im feeling extremely sleepy but i hav to write a blog or ill be dead in class. After listening to the usual 'happy birthdays' and "congratulations you finally turned 18!!!" I’m clearly not as excited!! I’m probably ranting because they all just killed my sleep (but I don’t regret ….i love my friends ...thank you Graham Bell!! This would not have been possible without you…) Well what exactly do they mean by ‘finally’?? was i not supposed to turn 18??

Honestly what’s with 18 anyway???....as I turn 18 today I m thinking a lot of things (some of which I’m making public)...so I’m a ‘major’ after all?? How does that even matter? Does it make me more mature and intelligent to take important decisions of my life? Does it make me a better person? WHATEVER……I don’t think so!!!! Well I have proof….George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, Narendra Modi…I don’t think crossing even 40 helped them at all!!! So here I come back to my to my original question….and I want to ask you all (if there is anyone at all ,that is) what is the whole fuss about 18 anyway??? And who actually decided on that number??? It could be 20 or 30 or 14 (remember child labour???) who was that ‘intelligent soul’ who decided on that number? The ‘age’ which brigs with itself a lot of ‘responsibilities and (ahem!!) liberties’…. So I can vote now(how does that matter)….and I can marry now(who wants to marry at 18!!!!!)….watch ‘A’ rated movies (oops!! Too early or too late) ahem….!!! So the fact of the matter is how does that even matter after all ??? But wait….i can vote!! That means I have the right to choose the best government for the country…well honestly here in India “har bachcha apni maa ke pet se politics seekh ke aata hai” (as said by a ‘popular’ actor on national televisin…Ravi Kishan to be precise) . well I think he is partially correct…we all DO know so much about politics even before we are thorough with its spelling(….oops is mine correct?) . “mom there was class voting for the monitor …but the teacher herself chose the same boy who comes first and is the monitor since years…why don’t I get to be the monitor and he does even though there is no actual ‘voting’?? ”… “beta…don’t worry….in fact its good that you get to concentrate on your studies rather creating more enemies and wasting your time”….but I want to ask….why not the child be given a chance to do something he really wants to?? He may become a good leader and participate for the betterment of the future of his country!! “politics toh gandi naali hai”….we say but does anyone even care of cleaning it?? (no !! im not asking for MCD’s help…honestly I don’t think they are equipped to clean any ‘naali’ ….leave alone that of politics) .everyone wants to become a doctor ,engineer, pilot and businessman, but no one wants to be a politician….no one wants to lead their country….we can vote at the age of 18 but to lead the nation the only criteria are white hair , falling teeth, displaced bones etc etc etc……I now remember one comment made by Mallika Sherawat (she is an ‘actress’ by the way!!) “70% of our population is youth but those who are leading the nation have their feet hanging in their coffins” (please don’t be surprised if she plays some hot mindless politician I some c grade movie….but trust me she can take the credit of working a lot better than her ‘older counterparts’)…. Anyways she looks ‘somewhat 18’……(oops!! sorry!...my bad)