Friday, 5 September 2014

Life with difficult sibling

(who hates Gays and who might know you are Gay)

Siblings are one of the most important part of life. They are that strong part of family whose presence plays important role in our family life. In a  life he time we spend with brothers or sister are more than the time we spend  with parents and spouses. This important person suppose to be your best friend, good allies and secret keeper. But not all people have good time with siblings.

 I come from a typical Indian family where I am an elder son and I have a younger sister who is far ahead of her age. Being daughter and youngest child she has her own sets of privileges under the foreseen predictions that makes her "gonna staty for few days". Heavily pampered by dad, lees restricted by mother this great sister of mine grew up adamant, arrogant, short tempered and unfortunately homophobic. Yes, my sister is homophobic and she secretly know that I am gay.  It was a tee shirt I brought long back saying "My Ex is a Supermodel" and when I was showing her that tee mistakenly I uttered 'it suits me, my ex was supermodel kinda handsome' and here I stopped. She didn't reacted then but her behavior suddenly changed from next day. I am not open to my family but she has enough reasons to hate me. She is one of those highly educated MNC employee who always has huge tensions and so she use that cause as good reason to bully me. Whatever I say, whatever i suggest turns into some intellectual objection and sister starts debate that ends into tantrum or serious shouting (by her, not me). And it always happens, so if I have to suggest nice dress for her (why not? I am GAY!) she will turn it into fight and blame it as space violation. If I suggest a good furniture piece for her room it will turn into trespassing personal matter. So whatever I say, she has good reason to fight it.

 It wasn't bad earlier. She was calm, balanced and diplomatic person. But now days she just need reason to blow out in family court. And since she is protected under the clause of "guest of several days" all hearings go in her favor and it is me who needs to suffer. Do I get mad by this? Off course. My all gay friends' sisters know that they are gay and they openly support their brothers. They are like best friends. I have good female friends who know I am gay and with whom I spend good time. The see me as brother and we have that brother sister kind of love. By this way I am brother so many women. But what about my own sister? Why should not I feel like having her more understanding, calm and friendly towards me. I did all good initiatives from my side. I always keep calm and took step back when she throw tantrums and solve the dispute. But why not I cannot be what I am with her? Why not I can talk to her freely or suggest her good designer dresses from my gay angle and why not she just listen to it and say "yes" even if namesake?  If she is so much intellectual and graduated from upper crust b-school why she could not control her office tensions and just not harsh with me.

 She mingles in society where there are lots of gays and lesbians. Off course she must have come across any gay or lesbian person in her college or place of work so why she is getting so terrorized by we people? Every person thinks that his or her angle of thoughts are right but sometime person has to move out and see thinks from other person's angles and do things just for other people even if he/she hates doing that task. We don't live in same house but all I want is whatever time we spend together we should spend it nicely. Just like those days when we were kids. She would laugh on my every act of joke and every mimicry and I would enjoy her friendly warm caring presence. But now where those things have gone? I mean if I say we have to spend an evening together nicely and enjoy each other's company, there will be infinite reasons to not do that thing. But to do that thing you need only one reason. The reason of love. That will make you cast off all the problems and so called tensions.

I don't know when my sister is gonna change her thoughts and view about me but I am gonna be the same funny brother, same caring brother, same loving brother and same Gay person.

Monday, 1 September 2014

Why an Indian Gay Men (& even straight men too) Should Not Go Crazy Behind Diet!


 Before all those technical, medical, dietary vocabulary starts gathering in your mind I want to say that, calm down guys. This is not gonna be like regular post where self-proclaimed nutritionist preaches about fitness and health.

 In fact I am gonna say opposite. Why we should not get obsessed with diet and miss one of the greatest pleasures of life. I know diets is important, it keeps you fit, body in temple and all those punchlines I know. But after seeing all my diet obsessed friend I see that they are avoiding one of the most delicious foods and drinks and missing the fun. I know we all wanna look good, fine and have that hot dashing personality and we all work towards it every day by shedding litres of sweat in the gym. We all take those expensive gym memberships and post pics on FB from. I too have a gym membership where I go and workout regularly and always adore muscular improvement of my body. But is that all?

 Seeing expanded big muscles makes you feel touch the sky and gives your eyes pleasure but what about other organs? What about nose that wanna smell great recipes and tongue that wanna embrace taste of enormously delicious recipes. What will replace this joy? Few more likes on facebook? Life is short and heavily unpredictable, relationships are heavily getting fragile and nothing is long lastingly reliable. If this was less then everyday new health problems are occurring. Every month health magazine writes side effects of some vegetable and after googling about it  you shall find benefits of same vegetable on other website. So if every food has its own set of advantages and disadvantages why should we sacrifice the taste of palate and avoid it just because some magazine said so? If you are committed to your gym then no food item can build extra layer of fats on your tummy and no ingredient can still those muscles from your biceps.

  As Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in Eat, Pray & Love; no guy is gonna notice that extra pound on your body once he sees you naked, all he is gonna see that is you are naked. I am not saying here that stops gyming, stop diet and be fat. No! All I want to say that be slow, don’t get obsessed with any new trend. It is your life and only you are gonna fill it with beautiful or awful experiences. Our country has beautiful delicacies and so other countries too. Enjoy that food, that variety and satiate your tongue. Those temporary abs gained after following strict diet does not guarantee genuinely romantic boyfriend but that one plate of Pani-Puri or Samosa-Chat definitely guarantees good time with friends and some permanent good memories for future.  Those big muscles gained after meal replacement protein shake does give happiness but it is not as high as enjoying parathas with ghee at weekly family reunion dinner.  


 At the end all that matters is happiness and relationships with people in life. At the end only remain is memories. So guys make some good memories for future. Let this food be the reason to create them. Definitely do hard gymind, diet but don’t go crazy behind it and don’t give distance to food. Who knows tomorrow by some reason you get restricted to eat certain item for life? Before that have it and enjoy it. 

Satiating desire of heart is not in your hands but at least satiating hunger for taste is in your plate. So grab it :)