Anu Aunty

There are two types of people. Well, actually, there are many types of people. But for now, let's assume there are only two. Maths was made so much easy by a simple step called an assumption. Hence we shall follow suit here to. Finally, school education's coming of some use. 

Okay!! Back to the two types of people. The first category is "Those who try stuff". These folks, as the description goes, go around, trying stuff. The stuff they try could be anything. It could be things they know a bit about. It could be stuff they have absolutely no idea about, or have never tried before. It doesn't matter to them. They go trying new stuff, end up breaking and blowing up a lot of stuff in the process. They are generally the "YES men", not as in they say "Yes" to whatever you tell them to do. They say "Yes" to new experiences. These are the folks who preserve the child inside till the very end of their lives, basically fun people to be around. Show them something new to do, and these folks crack their knuckles saying "Let's do this shit!". I have a friend who matches the description of this sort of a person to the T. How did they come about the expression "To the T"? That's a topic for another post. So, my friend, he's 28. So he's super young. But considering that his surrounding is filled with 22-23 year olds, he's supposed to look and seem a bit older.  Thankfully he doesn't. This person is the sort you look up to being like ten years down the line. Fun, easygoing, enthusiastic and enterprising. The word "Cool" is an understatement, almost sounds derogatory, while describing such folks. Well. That's that. 

Now, coming to the other end of the spectrum.... Close encounters of the second kind... I call them the Anu Aunties. Maybe, the "How I braved Anu Aunty and founded a billion dollar company" fever is something I haven't gotten over. But I cannot find a more suitable name for the people that belong to the second type. Their life is an unending speculation. These are the folks who ask 4 people about how they look in their new outfit, and eventually end up wearing an old one. They'd rather lost their one worthless life, than try anything that's not written in a textbook. And now, I'm going to RANT! Anu aunties come in all ages, genders, and sizes. They are the NAY-Sayers, The plain Vanilla. They'll come up with 27 reasons not to do something, even before they have tried doing that something. Everything looks like a monumental task, completely worth avoiding. Everything must be tried and tested. Strangely, or maybe not so strangely, they make up a big chunk of our surroundings. The worst part being that they're never satisfied. 

So 

a) You don't try stuff

b) Cry about how imperfect the world is.

If you combine a) and b), you get the perfect kitty party material.

I just realized that I'm bitching. Now, that's something new I just tried! Jokes apart, now that I'm forgetting the real reason as to why I started writing this post, I'll finish it before someone puts a bullet in my head. 

Try new shit! Shit could be brown, pale, watery, or even airy! (If you know what I mean)  Just be careful about the airy one. It could be silent, but also deadly!

And for the sake of heavens, do NOT offer advice on stuff you have not tried! Don't even think of running your mental simulator to speculate the result of doing something, specially if you plan on documenting your gibberish computerized result. It's useless. Even the guys who wrote the code for the program must have warned you of the 10% accuracy of the program's output. 

By the way, something just came up! There's something called the 3 second rule, about which I'd read a while ago. Look it up. Anyway, it say that...

If you want to do something, don't take more than 3 seconds to embark upon the thing you want to do, whatever be the thing.

The explanation to this was that if one were to take more than 3 seconds to decide upon doing something, our mind, with its inbuilt Anu Aunty will kick in,  preventing us from doing what we initially set out to do. So either you fight valiantly with your internal Anu Aunty, or you bypass her even before she has a chance to react. 

I feel like this entire post was more of a sales pitch for the book "How I braved Anu Aunty........". But never the less. Let's not allow the Anu Aunties take over the world. The world depends on us!