Misfit

We never understand! The new phrase that goes around in the generation we have. You feel we  never understood and we never will understand. You seem to be stressed at a very early age in life. You seem exhausted but it is we who never understand this.

A little girl just grew up to tell her one fine day, you never understand. A little girl just grew up to tell her do you know what I am going through. A little girl just grew up to tell her because of you I am so like this, shattered it seemed to her, unbelievable but true. She had never understood where she made a mistake in bringing up the little girl that grew. Grew so big but not in age or experience to say how difficult she found to survive with her as she never understands.

They say the age is difficult to handle, it’s their growing up years. But haven’t they grown enough to speak just so many mature words with us. We all grow through this age but I guess she never understood times have changed or maybe she has been different. She never understood the so called mature conversation with a girl of not even half her age or experience. She never understood you could speak like this as she never did. She never understood and will never understand how to deal with today’s fast growing age.

The little girl stayed indifferent, she wanted to be left alone. Alone at an age that always would be surrounded by both friends and family. She never understood when the little girl said I needed space. Space she thought was distance, cut off from the ones closest.  I guess the new age and the new world where all that matters is you. Maybe she never understood that it is all about ourselves. The little girl knew that before coming to her age.

The little grew to teach her something new. Something that she never understood and may not understand. It is a bond of life they share, it is a connection created by the one above. How could she not understand the little girl? How could she distance herself when the girl seemed down and alone. But I guess the little was growing with the new world, fast paced though inexperienced.

She never understood that she did not belong here in a world where you need to be practical and where there is logic but not feelings that count. Sad but true the world has changed and she never did live so much to understand the concept where it was all about you and nothing about we or us. It was not the age that counted but words that weighed much. She never understands and that was what was true .

The little girl had given her something to learn at an age when she thought that there was so much she understood and so much she knew.

Do we call this generation gap ? I think it is. While she tries to hold on to what she learnt and tries to not let go what she needs to learn now. Is it the learning at fault or is it the new world that wants to teach.

Teach a generation who knows well how to balance and manage. Teach a generation who still could work out a way. Are we a misfit in the new , progressive world? Or is that you trying to squeeze yourself before your age?  The world has advanced but I guess it has moved way ahead leaving the present a bit lost and confused as they are finding it difficult to fit the race and have moved so far , leaving themselves alone. Where they do not understand and feel misunderstood.

-Mansi Chaturvedi


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2 responses to “Misfit”

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    shashi0thakur13

    A relevant and thought-provoking read… so well expressed, dear Mansi 🙏🏻👍

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