Me and My Defense Attorney

Sounds great, huh? Really it’s nothing great...am talking about me and myself! Oh ya, at times i do feel like my own defense attorney. Many a time, I have to really defend myself - say regarding the way I am, the way I do things, what I do, how I live and so on...
Finding myself quite often in the minority doesn’t help! Take for example, something as simple as calling home can make people raise eyebrows. Now I don’t call home everyday. I call only when I need to. A simple thing as this puzzles many. Why? Because you are expected to stay in touch with your folks each and every day – or at least that is the norm.
I have the same issue with my choice of entertainment – any day I would choose a book over a movie and the internet (includes blogging, info search, mail, chat, etc) over the TV. As a result of which I can count the number of movies I have watched over the past few years and the same goes for the number of hours I have spent in front of the television. This again is quite incomprehensible to quite a lot of people.
And how can I forget the oft repeated question of late – “how can you stay all alone?” These days many of my pals wonder how on earth am I staying alone – the questions range from concerns about boredom to queries about managing on my own, things like how do I manage, what do I do over the weekend and so on…mystifies a many. And when I say I like it this way, the responses vary from simple shrugs to concerned queries.
Well, a girl staying on her own isn’t commonplace yet – but what’s wrong? Am sure there isn’t anything strange in it. Just because it isn’t the well-trodden path doesn’t mean something’s wrong.
I would say all these happen because people find it hard to accept something that moves away from the general trend. General perception is that something’s wrong and it should be reasoned out!!! I’ve had a number of friends who have tried to reason out things – all the while refusing to see the other side of the coin.
Thankfully, or rather quite fortunately, I have found a few people like me – like the proverbial drops in the ocean….