The story of KYON??

In our Punjabi society, hardly any instruction given is not followed by "kyon" (or kyu in Hindi).. Specially if something is told to our Gen Y (Well there you go! Its all in the name).. Apparently 'kyon' is the bff of curiosity.. I mean, why should one follow some idea or pursue something just for the heck that it has been told by somebody who landed on sweet mother earth a couple of years or decades before, if one doesn't know the reason behind it?? Unfair isn't it??.. Here is a small list of things that follow 'kyon' everytime they are uttered:
1. Do not wash your hair on Thursdays.
2. Do not oil your hair on Tuesdays.
3. Do not move your legs to and fro while sitting on a higher platform (this one is the favourite with elders at my home, and they are quite a few :-p)
4. Do not play with home keys.
5. Do not make loud noise with the utensils while cooking or cleaning.
6. Do not question what is being said. (in other words Do not ask 'kyon' :-p)

 But sadly our elders are not so keen on answering the 'kyons'.. Probably they dont know either, they are just passing on the legacy they were left with blindly.. The reply i get from my mom everytime i ask 'kyon'? is "asi tode warge badtameez nai si.. asi apne vadea nu aggo kyon nai karde si.." (we were not so shameless and ill mannered like your generation. we just followed what our elders said without any whys)
But then isn't it your fault that you didn't question or didn't try to find out somehow??
Is the curiousity funda directly proportional to technology?? Was it not present in our parents' times?
Why did they follow such absurdities without questioning?
Did they think the world was going to remain the same till eternity and nobody would question anybody ever?
Are we going to pass on these superstitions or whatever we would call them further?

Anyway i personally get irked when forced to follow such commands or illogical practices while all my "kyons" go unanswered or rebuked.. :-(

Enchanté

Hello Everyone

The hello is indeed coming very very late. The blog was created about an year ago. But call it the Ghajini influence or as you may please, I had completely forgotten about it.. I may not remember the reason but I am sure there must have been a good one. But on second thoughts, if it was indeed a good one, I should remember it.

Anyway, lets do some intro first. I am doing my MA in English. Just done with my 2nd sem exams a few days ago. and my life is as normal as any youngster in her/his (does that have to be his/her always?) early 20s would be. Well if you let me talk from "our" point of view, life is never 'normal' at this age.. its all topsy turvy, hussles and bussles, dont-know-what-to-do-with-my-life stresses (i am going through this one), relationships, and everything in the world charging towards us to take us down..

I am here to do what i feel i am decent in doing. In the hope that i get better with every post.

Would like appreciations and critics are welcome. honestly. Any pointers or tips on posts would be appreciated. Lets do this!! Lets get started.

Goonj- Let The Word Echo

P.B. Shelley (Ode to the West Wind)
"Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth"