
Ive just returned from a short trip to mountains. Awesome experience. I'll tell you why. Not just because of my bus jumping not below 50 mph during whole journey driven by a nearly drunken driver in a cold dark night at the mountain tops, also coz i finally figured out the answer to the most deadly question in my life. That guy was sitting next to me in the last lane of bus seats. I was talking to someone about some scandal of medicines. That guy took interest in our talk too and after a while he shot a series of questions onto me.
He: So your from Chandigarh??
Me: Yea
He: And about your studies??
Me: Well .. im a graduate in science. And now into Animation.
He: What is ani..mation???
Me: .................................
........ Oooh ... my...... GOD! Not this question again :-/
World stopped moving for me at that instance. I was looking into his curious eyes .. while he was looking at my face .. expecting a decent reply .. a bit embarrased of his general knowledge. I collected my experience of tackling this question from past 99999999 times. I replied after lots of thinking and seconds of pause ..
Me: mm .. animation?? .... Have you seen spiderman?? :)
He: .. spider ..mm .. wat??
Me: GOD!! ... mm .. Batman?? Superman?? Hanuman ..?? :O
He: .. hmm .. :-/
Me: .. :-/
Me: What do you do??
He: Im in army.
I relaxed back to normal state .. took a deep breath. I was glad after knowing he is an army guy. Coz atleast he had a valid reason for his illiteracy of the new trends unlike past incidents.
I replied him back.
Me: Well .. im an animator .. im a story teller .. i make animations .. i entertain people. Its like film making .. just the medium is computer.
Im sure he got nothing of what i explained :D watelse i could tell. Its the most difficult thing to explain a non-animation guy what is animation. This time i figured it out actually ... not the answer .. but the solution. Just explain it once .. and never bother if they dont get it :D If you know how to tackle this .. plz do tell me.

