It’s a challenge
to tell people who am i
In five words, they said
Opinionated, assertive,
Informed, intellectual and a wanderlust
I thought
But that’s just not enough
For there is so much more,
more than what meets the eye
They asked me
“What do you wish for?”
Right path, right mind and success,
I thought
But there is so much more,
that I seek
Nothing I say,
will ever be enough
He said
“What you want to be in next 10 years?”
I thought,
Around, maybe
Successful,
Publishing my stories, poems
Or starting up from scratch,
In a business, maybe
There’s a lot that can be accomplished,
I have plans, though
“What inspires you?”
He asked
My mother,
Saving through her teeth,
and my father never buying a new shoe
until that pair went to pieces
I though I could tell him,
Of the stories buried inside my heart
Then he asked
If I would change anything
I wondered if I ever would have,
I would have probably done the same wrong things, I did
And learnt the same way
How I did
I embrace change
In people, attitude and surroundings
I love change,
lying through my teeth,
I said
“What values are important to me?”
Oh I was stunned
One of those questions
that takes you down
Simplicity, honesty, modesty
I had said enough
Then came the boomerang
He asked,
If there is one value,
that is uncompromisable
“Yeah, i said
My esteem”
I retorted
He asked
What motivated me
“Knowledge, and the fact that there is always so much one can learn. There’s no end to it”
I said
The day I stop learning,
will be the day, I die
I said to myself
Strengths few
Weaknesses gathering dew
Focused, methodical, meticulous
Detail oriented, pragmatic
A lot more to add
But not just the fruit
thorns add up too
I am impatient, materialistic,
easily distracted
I need motivation
Constant and otherwise
And at last he asked
‘Hobbies and interest’
I told him I read
and write,
Get zoned out,
Constantly wander
In thoughts and dreams
And keep adding pieces
to my memory palace
And retrieving them,
Whenever the need be..
This is who I am
This is who I always will be..
