Things I don't tell about myself - Loose Blogger's Consortium (LBC)

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This topic really made me feel like it is some kind of a rite of passage to become a part of the "inner circle" of what I always like to describe as elite group of bloggers - LBC! Fair enough, challenge accepted. Here I am coming clean as never before and some of the things I say are leaving the deep dark chambers of my mind for the first time ever. Not that they are dark things per se. The reason I never mentioned them to anyone is not because I wouldn't want people to know about it, but simply the fact that a few of those things have caused unnecessary controversy in the past which made me adapt a policy to shut up whenever possible about them; while other things have simply always been out of scope in most conversations I have had with people so never felt the need to disclose them. Here we go then:

1. I really am 22 years old, or will be in a few days. I feel the need to emphasise this sometimes as it gets overlooked way too often. Though I never mention this.
2. There occurred a drastic change in my personality and behaviour all of a sudden when I was about ten years old. People who knew me before then would not only not recognise me now in anyway, but would refuse to believe what they see as well. I have recently been told a few of these people have been stalking my blog out of curiosity, and this one is especially for them. You know it, if you know it.
3. I used to be extremely short tempered and violent before then. It's a joke if you see me now.
4. I spent more time out of classroom than inside for being one of the troublemakers in school.
5. I am a teetotal. At the risk of sounding boastful, I am too good at disguising it at social events. Nobody knows this and if some people knew, they wouldn't believe for a second.
6. I used to be an atheist and a communist. Then I started thinking. Which meant I thought I knew it all. Until I discovered spirituality. Which made me realised I had lost the plot for too long. Now I know its best when you know nothing.
7. I am an idealist and a perfectionist in everything I do. This does not mean I am a tidiness freak, quite the contrary in fact if you look at my room (I believe in entropy-natural law of chaos). Not necessarily expecting others to be so, though still subtly and indirectly encouraging people to strive for perfection.
8. I believe in fate. Learnt it the hard way. Too convinced to turn around.
9. I am what some may call a man of principles and morals, tipping over to puritanism at times. This is because I believe from experience that it is very much possible and practical to have morals/principles in life and live by them.
10. There was a time when I found basic spelling and grammar of English more difficult than rocket science. This time was not too long ago. I realised that times do change. I am better at English now than I am with my mother tongue. Shame on me, or maybe not.
11. I ran away from home at the age of twelve in search of knowledge. Got robbed at the train station, had to walk home in heavy rain and make up an excuse for where I had been all day. My parents would be in shock if they learn of this.
12. I have been slapped by a monkey for imitating it. This is not a joke. I still like monkeys.
13. I was terrified of ants when I was too young to start forming memories.
14. I am very committed when it comes to relationships that matter.
15. Those who know this can testify the extent to which I can and have gone for love (of anything/anyone). The same people would, however, want to shoot me if they knew that if need be, I can be equally scheming and cunning in plotting elaborate traps to destroy the enemy. I believe in loving the enemy and hating the vice.
16. There are some memories I wish I could hide forever, even from myself. I know I shall find peace only when I manage to free myself from these.
17. I tend to have a highly philosophical perspective to most things, which could be rather unnerving for some who belong to the reductionist school of thought.
18. I detest the contemporary education and political system. I believe there is a solution. I recognise the solution is impossible to apply in current circumstances and these times. I stop bothering, though still feeling bad for those who suffer.
19. My only joy in life is travelling and trekking. If it was up to me, I'd have a permanent base up in the mountains.
20. One day when I am older (than I am now), I wish to give up everything to settle in some small Indian village running a school or something...writing, travelling and eventually getting away from civilisation to spend my last days in peace in some remote forest on a mountain.

This list will never end...Hope you enjoyed reading :-)