Life v/s Me...

It all seemed to have happened together, one after the other. My parents never landed after their flight took off from Delhi. I kept waiting at the Mumbai airport. They never arrived. A month later, a friend reported about my girlfriend dating some other guy. We broke up. Dad had three sisters in Dubai. Mom's brother refused to be my guardian, and I had to drop out of college. Everyone found it strange, but I never cried.

I was 21 then, into my final year of BBA. I knew it was me alone who had to turn the tide. I went back to Delhi.After a lot af formalities there,dad's money was now mine.Later that year, I started the business of selling rolls, in a set up which I had not named after my parents. I called it 'Rock n Roll'. My old friend Nikki got me the best of Rock Music, and that became the theme for my outlet. Rock Music and a wide variety of rolls...that's Rock n Roll.

                                   In the picture: that's me,Aasad Mullick

Two years later, I fell in love with a Hindu girl. She loved me a lot and somehow expected me to be possessive. I wasn't and I couldn't be. After all, I lived cause I wasn't.

One night, when she had lost her cell phone, and I had no one to talk to, I looked back at life. I realised how different I had been from what the world wanted me to be....what they all expected me to be. When they thought I would cry, I never did. Some expected me to go spiritual, I didn't. And then, Anjali expected me to be possessive.

Life, as I learn, is always there to screw you. Can't really escape fate, can we? But then, there's one thing we can do. When life fucks, participate. Then it wouldn't be a rape, it will be like sex. We can enjoy the challenges. We can fight back. Life can only push, whether we fall or not depends on our balance. Life will expect us to behave conventionally, when we don't we confuse it, and that's when we go on to win this game of Chess, designed by life.

Today, at 34,I am happy with my little family. My son Aamir, daughter Husnaara and wife..... Shabana.

(P.S.: Rock n Roll now has nine outlets in Delhi. The business is growing at a nice pace)