Walk this way, talk this way

“Why are you walking like that? Walk like a normal boy willu!”

Later onwards in life, I would realize that ‘normal’ is a covert reference to hetero. But at that point, I was none the wiser.

From an early point in life, I remember that my father would instruct me, with a sort of severe look on his face, on how to conduct myself. Brother dearest, however, received no such lessons. But I was always coaxed. Coaxed to walk properly, to talk more boyishly, to watch the right tv, to play the right games. To do what ‘normal’ boys do.

Luckily, I didn’t seem to care two hoots about my father’s lofty goals. So I talked the way I wanted, and walked the way I wanted.

But there must be so many people out there who didn’t do that. They must be the ones who got married I guess.