The last time being called a Fishhead

A few years after the guy who started the name went away, there was another character. I love the person I look at in the mirror and frankly I think I deserve the attention a movie star deserves, and thanks to that girls actually do. But in that past, due to the perception of a few on who I was, the image had got bad a little. Not that I looked bad then or anything, actually people who didn't know me well thought I was especially good looking.

It was for a trip to Hyderabad, were a guy came up to me and said, 'Dude, you look like a fish head in this photo'. Actually, it was one of the sweetest photographs of me, but he had to say it because he had a bad perception of me. But I thought, enough! And I argued that I look really good in it. So he took it to the tour guide. The tour guide, gave the other guy a look, a look which told him 'are you crazy?', and the tour guide told that I looked 'ok' in it. Even he was clearly in denial that I looked bad because I could see it in his eyes.

The guy who actually came up to me and told it, actually meant it in a way like, you are so cool now but how come your photo is like this. I actually was cool that time, due to my bonding with the popular seniors and the type of music I listened to.

The perception problem though was still in him. Even though I was this cool guy for the outer world, he didn't consider me so. He sub-consciously wanted to show me that, not intentionally and that comment came out of nowhere. It did affect me!

This was the last time anyone called me 'fishhead' and the world was convinced that they guy who wore his pants high and parted his hair in the middle or let it down had finally changed into something really out of their world, all thanks to TV and other influences. My primary fashion influences were Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

Now, I am telling that I am a cool dude. But I was not always so. As I told I used to wear my pants high and let my hair down or part it center. I always liked the way I look, in any way it didn't matter to me much, but the world did care about the way others dress and stuff. Being raised by a single mom (plus engineer), there was a bit of a girl touch in the dressing style that time.

All that has changed now, but I still consider those days to be one of the best in my life, I was so care-free and happy.