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Saturday, July 19, 2008

GOOD BOYS BAD BOYS(Humour)

GOOD BOYS BAD BOYS(Humour)
Actually not boys, I wanted to write about “Good men” and “Bad men” naming it “Good men Bad men”. But you all will object the concept of “Good men”, it doesn’t sound good to ear. You will say, I should use “Gentlemen”. But, “Are all good men really Gentle?” I have a sincere doubt here. M&B* Romance mostly opposes it. There, the “Good man” is generally a rough guy, who appears so heartless at the beginning that the protagonist lady needs to travel through the whole book to ultimately find his heart, and of course, his gentleness at the end. I remember reading somewhere long back, ‘A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman’. So, we need a ‘lady’ here. But today I want to write about ‘men’ and only 'men', gentle or non-gentle, regardless. So, better go with “Good boys Bad boys”.

There are some interesting and universally agreeable (I think) features of good boys and bad boys. That’s how they can be differentiated. I hope the ‘men’ who read this wouldn’t come to me with hammer to attack me for this experimentation, or better say, R&D. C’mon it’s my blog, so today I’ve got the privilege to take all the men to the social laboratory for scrutiny and finding the characteristics of good boys and bad boys. Let’s have a look.

Starts with the good boy. As a kid, the good boy is never a naughty boy. He doesn’t disobey anything the elders say. He doesn’t make his dress dirty playing with watery mud. He doesn’t pull the hair of the longhaired girl who sits in front of him in the school bus. But the good boy (kid) decides the girl (baby girl) to marry and parents find it sooooooooooooo sweet!( because he is so naïve and innocent).

As a teenager, the good boy doesn’t bunk classes to go to movie. He never tries to travel in the bus without a ticket. He stays away from the fashion trends, girls company and canteen adda. He studies regularly and if not a topper, atleast never becomes the bottommer(is there a word "bottommer" in English dictionary?) in the class. He doesn’t spend sleepless nights thinking about a girl, atleast he pretends to be so (it must be so difficult). He mostly wears trousers with light colored shirts instead of jeans-tee to college. He doesn’t ride his bike in maximum speed possible to draw attention of ‘that girl’ coming from the other end. In one word, good boy never waste his valuable time after a girl. At most, he may write poetry.

As a grown up man, he does well in the career he chooses. This is very important for his “Good” image, because in our society, a professionally unsuccessful man, however good may otherwise, is never considered good enough for his prospective father-in-laws. The good boy always touches the feet of his parents before going for anything important. He always goes to his workplace in purely formal dress and clean shaving (mostly). The good boy never defies the wishes of his mother as far as his marriage is concerned. No matter with how many girls he exchanges his heart (yes, it’s always a matter of heart, that is love, not lust, after all, he is the good boy), but surely without any third person's knowledge, he never makes any promise to any girl for marriage. Because the good boy always goes as per his parents wish. The good boys never drink, never smoke. However, in many situations he is allowed both the things along with his good image; after all, they are part of the modern etiquette. But he makes it sure never to show his parents doing so. The good boy never shouts at his wife. If he is really unhappy with her, instead, he would ignore her existence as far as practicable and may find another good lady to be his intimate friend. And an equally good wife (chosen by his mother after going through all the family history) is always tolerant, non-demanding and loyal who never questions her husband.

Now let’s talk about bad boys. The bad boy starts his life as a naughty baby, the terror of the neighborhood, whom the parents scare to take along for social gathering. My God! he is so talkative, God knows, what he would say in front of whom!(all the true conditions & equations and fighting of the inside household, the secrets the parents took so many years of efforts to hide from their neighbors).

The bad boy has his first crush even before reaching the teenage sometimes, and the first kiss in early teens. The good boy in college envies the bad boy secretly because he is always surrounded by girls. The girls find him attractive and smart. He goes to college in the dress of the latest movie heroes and never fails to notice the slightest interest shown by a girl, however quiet she may be. He is always overly helpful towards girls. He is ever more than ready to offer his helping “hand”(literally hand or maybe shoulder) to any girl.

Though he never bothered much about studies, he ends up managing atleast some good enough corporate jobs. Well, after all, isn’t it the old man’s duty to get him settled? By that time, after a lot of trial and error, liking, dating, partying and romancing (including all kinds of intimacy in different scales depending on the girl's permissible limit) with many, finally he finds ‘the girl’ with whom he ultimately falls in love. Then the bad boy becomes adamant and he doesn’t hesitate to defy anybody and any rule to marry the girl of his choice, no matter even if it’s his parents. Even after marriage, he doesn’t mind calling “baby” the other “hot girls” around. When he is happy, he laughs loud, louder than what is needed to everyone around turn their head in his direction. He doesn't mind lighting a cigarette wherever he feels like. (It's a free country and he has bought it with his money, right?) He is not as cool and patient like ‘good boys’. If needed, he doesn’t hesitate to tighten his muscles, sometimes may be for the sake of his bosom friends. He doesn’t care going in complete informal dress even for formal meetings. He doesn’t mind indulging in arguments and showing off his anger anywhere and anytime. When he fights with his wife (and he fights quite frequently), sometimes the neighbors need to intervene for the sake of the peace and harmony of the locality. He enjoys going to "disc" and bar, with a glass and a "baby" around. But yes, since he is a bad boy who looks really smart, who never gives lecture on moral teaching, he never runs short of company. A "bindas" companion, people love to be with.

But is "good" really good and "bad" really bad? Somebody told me that "too good is really boring". Maybe sometimes we need to be a little bit "naughty-witty" instead of plain "good" to make this life more thrilling adding some spice. But we need to be careful while adding spice, too much of spice may upset your stomach. Well……….I wrote it just for fun. No intension of hurting anyone’s sentiment. In reality, nobody is completely good and nobody is completely bad. There’s nothing like black and white in real World. Aren’t we all just different shades of gray instead?

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