I know I'm going to write something that most of the people feel irrelevant. But I would like to make some points about some paradoxes that happens in my life, well, they are nothing serious, but funny.
When I started my graduation I had to move to a hostel. So I was then moving from my village where fresh water supply was plenty (thanks to Sasthamcotta fresh water lake) to the city which provided with water that was salty always. From the first day in hostel I used to hear the complaints regarding the water quality. Girls were always condemning the low grade water for hair fall. And I also sang the song along with them even though I was not facing hair fall in such a gravity. In fact I had faced a drastic hair loss situation in the final year of my schooling, and when I joined college I was already with less hair and that too almost a quarter of the original length (thanks to my mother's hair dressing techniques). I didn't face a serious threat by the chloride water in the hostel, but I also lamented that water ruined my hair. But after all these years and lives of 3 more hostels and my own house (fresh water was available at all these places), I think I should admit this that I had wonderful hair when I was there at Kollam. Yes, the water was way too salty, and it might affected hair, but mine was fine and silky even then. The fact is my hair had it's best texture when it washed with salty water, that's what I felt. If my hair is cool now, it was cooler then. I apologize here for my wrong accusations about my large scale hair loss due to water at that time.
I had very good healthy teeth, but my habit of not washing mouth after snacks and sweets during my high school days given me some tooth decay at the molars. So since then I had been experiencing a kind of tooth ache, but nothing serious. The starting of tooth decay alerted me and I cleaned my teeth properly since then. But it spread to some extend, I had faced intermittent pains. Then I heard about a tooth paste brand which was suggested by almost everyone for toothache and sensitivity. I heard from witnesses themselves that putting some amount of that paste in the decay part itself can reduce pain. So when my father brought that brand from canteen I happily started using it. I had a little pain in the first day itself, but I continued use. Then pain started to aggravate and within a week I was rolling over floor. And thanks to the brand suggested by many, I just had to suggest my dentist to take away my teeth and it was extracted. I never had continuous toothache, but for one week I went with a populist suggestion and ended up with less teeth in my mouth.
When we talk about healthy habits, we always get a suggestion to stay away from junk foods. And it is proved that these bakery items or gluten can cause small to serious problems. But what about taste? And especially when one is away from the home food. So during my hostel days which had accounted for almost 6 years I used to gorge on bakery items almost everyday. I was never a big veg lover, not even now. So always skipped the veg part provided in hostel (most like skipped the whole hostel food) and lived on junk. Well, at initial stages it was like 'I don't like hostel food', but later when I was ready to compromise I was not given enough food I like. So my diet included these scarce hostel food items, lot of bakery and some weekend home non veg extravaganza. I don't remember a single time I took pain to include some veg even at home during holidays (may be some cauliflower,bitter guard and potato at times). So food meant a lot of gluten, meat and oil for me then. There was no regime for work outs. And, I had no forms of skin problems, pimples or marks. I'm at home for some years now; eating very healthy with enough vegetables, cutting down my meat in take several folds, oil fried snacks are almost away and I never skip my morning exercises and walk. But with a lot of face pimples and marks. Unfortunately my healthy way of living gives me skin problems than before. Well, I'm not going to blame being healthy for my pimple heads, may be the situation in I'm now causing the out breaks. Being healthy is not enough, being happy also counts.
We expect a number of things happen in some way (call it normal), and probably this is the basics of common sense intuitions. But in reality, in life, things may happen differently and if they are not happening differently because of the influence of an external force, then let it be like that. This just means that people are different and it is okay to be different or feel different. And that is certainly not being abnormal.
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