So I am sitting there at the tail end of a busy day just enjoying my dinner and the Saas-Bahu serials on TV when along comes the Britannia Good Day ad to shatter my peace of mind. When I first hear it, I think I am wrong but when they repeat it I know that there is no denying it- this biscuit is turning twenty five, and guess what I remember clearly when it first hit the markets! So putting two and two together, I am now old enough to be older than events and things that are twenty five years old. I mean its not like I don't know people older than that who are younger than me, but twenty five sounds like a really big number when it is called a silver anniversary and celebrated with fancy logos and company specials.
Till now I have never really thought about getting old. Have never really thought of myself as old. Kids call me aunty and sometimes even very young men call me that and I have always put that down to the fact that in India women are either beti, didi, aunty or maaji. But when I think about all the things I have seen in my life time- tenth anniversary of 9/11, the first Indian astronaut in space, thirteen Prime Ministers, the fall of the Berlin Wall, break up of the USSR, my life span so far (and the title of aunty) does seem to take on another hue. Sure it means I am not a teenager or a young woman any more, but it means that my peers and I have lived through some amazing, and not so amazing events. These are things that will go into history course books and will add significance to the time we have spent on this planet.
So as the delicious Britannia Good Day celebrates its twenty five years of bringing smiles to our faces, rather than thinking about how old that makes me, I am going to enjoy the fact that I have been around from the very beginning to enjoy it and many other such great creations of our times.
Till now I have never really thought about getting old. Have never really thought of myself as old. Kids call me aunty and sometimes even very young men call me that and I have always put that down to the fact that in India women are either beti, didi, aunty or maaji. But when I think about all the things I have seen in my life time- tenth anniversary of 9/11, the first Indian astronaut in space, thirteen Prime Ministers, the fall of the Berlin Wall, break up of the USSR, my life span so far (and the title of aunty) does seem to take on another hue. Sure it means I am not a teenager or a young woman any more, but it means that my peers and I have lived through some amazing, and not so amazing events. These are things that will go into history course books and will add significance to the time we have spent on this planet.
So as the delicious Britannia Good Day celebrates its twenty five years of bringing smiles to our faces, rather than thinking about how old that makes me, I am going to enjoy the fact that I have been around from the very beginning to enjoy it and many other such great creations of our times.
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