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Conventional

I am a conventional person. To be precise, I am a conventional Indian. Personality wise I have most if the traits 'Indians' are supposed to have. I don't care too much for how I look, I think being spiritual is important, I feel that family is very important and all that jazz. That said however, my family has never been the conventional type. People had grandparents whom they taught things to, I on the otherhand had grandparents from whom I only learnt, there was nothing Ammamma did not know. I grew up closer to my maternal side of the family (which is usually the norm) and still find my father's side odder. I have had issues with my family, which very very few of my friends know of and it probably will stay that way because if you don't know you are either too conventional for my taste or not important enough to know about it. Usually when people ask questions like 'what does your dad do' I reply with 'my parents are engineers'. To whi...