Have You Ever Talked to People?

Have you ever talked to people?

“Oh, you’re a Potterhead? Isn’t it the best series, like ever!”

-          No.

“But I thought you are a Harry Potter fan.”

            Yes, I love the Harry Potter series dearly.

            It gave me my role model before I entered my teens.

            Many life lessons within the story divided into seven.

            But have you ever looked into the tales that came before?

            It came at the right time for the kids of the 90s

            But that doesn’t make it the best, when you can’t even define ‘ever’.

Have you ever talked to people?

“What are your plans after the class?”

-          Probably I will watch a movie, or two.

“But I thought you are a book lover.”

-          Yes

“Then you must prefer books over movies.”

            No, books and movies are two different fields.

            Who said I can’t love them both?

            I am not sorry I left you puzzled, or am I?

            A book lover need not be fixated with pages.

A movie buff need not be fixated with scenes.

Interdependent, correlated, call them what you may.

I love them both, but of course, it won’t make me a ‘book lover’ then.

Have you ever talked to people?

“I thought you are more of a T-shirt person?”

-          I am.

“It suits you, girly clothes not so much.”

            I am a girl who loves her baggy jeans.

            T-shirts are her comfort zones,

            Who would want to walk on stilettos all day long?

            But it won’t mean I don’t love them at all.

            For people like you, who know not anything

            But what they see the way they want to see,

            No explanation can help your momentarily puzzled brain at all.

Have you ever talked to people?

“Oh, you fit into this category.”

-          Yes.

“But then, how do like something from the other category?”

            Categories we have made, generalising everything

            To help us create an identity among the billions

            But why have we become accustomed to such an idea

            Where identity needs to be definite, not more than one?

            Why have we drawn boundaries?

            Why have we limited ourselves to be this much,

            When we can possibly be so much?

            Why is singularity so important to us.

When no two humans can be the same?

Have you ever talked to people?

“Do you know categories will limit this conversation?”

-          Yes.

“So let’s take the pain, debunk this generalisation,

Accept the chaos within and beyond,

Let’s get to know each other a little more,

A little less, perhaps

In this multiverse of possibilities,

Let’s celebrate our individuality

Let’s celebrate our plurality.”

Even if I hadn’t done it so far,

Now I think I finally can,

Talk to people, talk to the world.