Ever wondered why suddenly memories of the past
come flooding back to you one random day, causing
you to frantically look into the tiniest details of those
memories in your head … you start looking for
pictures, videos, movies or books anything tat is
representative of those memories .. you try very hard
to imagine how you felt then and then try to recreate
those moments in your present life …One thing leads
to the other .. you start remembering your school life
and the pranks you played on unsuspected victims,
annual days and sport days, finding out lil details
about your crush(es) …getting excited about your
freedom during summer holidays, climbing tress
without getting caught or playing games for really
long hours till you mom threaten you with beating if
you don’t come “immediately”, preps for boards minus
the TV … you think that is that is best time of your
life when you suddenly are into college, with more
freedom and a new set of friends, ragging by seniors
in your first year followed by you ragging ur juniors
the very next year, your own gang of friends, the
dhabas and movies and beaches you visited with
them … the long bike/car rides speeding above limit,
remember those days when you would cram for your
exams and have late night teas to keep urself awake
so that you can “pass” the exam, about the times when
you would have long conversations with your hostel
friends about random things in life and of course the
gossips going on in the college … you remember the
long walks in your campus or umpteen visits to the
canteen, running at the last min to enter your hostel
before the curfew, mass bunking classes jus coz you
are bored or want to watch a movie as a gang,
getting ODs for college culturals and tech fests,
song dedications and proposals and rejections, bday
bump and bday treats, huge mess bills and even
bigger canteen bills, sneaking out to meet your bf/gf...
prepaid sim with unlimited SMSes… regular visits to
archies and CCDs to enjoy the AC, a lil bit of tension
of getting “placed” or GRE/CAT prep ….and off you go
to start another phase of your life offering a new
path…
All this while you see a sea of faces, some of which you
prominently remember, while others are faded
memory, best friends, arch enemies, juniors, seniors
and super seniors… names bounce of your head and
make you wonder where are they and what are they
doing now ...they are others you are in touch with…
you wish for gathering with all the different people
from you past .. wish some one would take initiative
from their busy life to organize something where you
can relive your past… there are ppl with whom you
never spoke before but are now best friends with …
laughing about all the missed years of friendship ….
then they are others who were your best friends but
now you don’t even have any idea what they are up
to…sometimes you wish you had been more active and
stayed in touch and other times you wonder wat
exactly happened to cause this drift …
aahhh .. these memories … bring both a smile and tear
on your face…makes you wonder about the different
paths you might have taken and the results of those
paths…And then you realize that you even don’t
know the future of the path you have taken now…this
realization makes you hope that the
relationships which you have now last forever and
grow stronger by the hour … makes you hope that the
you forge new bonds and also repair some of the old
ones …. makes you hope tat you remember all these
moments in the future as vividly as they are now!!!
come flooding back to you one random day, causing
you to frantically look into the tiniest details of those
memories in your head … you start looking for
pictures, videos, movies or books anything tat is
representative of those memories .. you try very hard
to imagine how you felt then and then try to recreate
those moments in your present life …One thing leads
to the other .. you start remembering your school life
and the pranks you played on unsuspected victims,
annual days and sport days, finding out lil details
about your crush(es) …getting excited about your
freedom during summer holidays, climbing tress
without getting caught or playing games for really
long hours till you mom threaten you with beating if
you don’t come “immediately”, preps for boards minus
the TV … you think that is that is best time of your
life when you suddenly are into college, with more
freedom and a new set of friends, ragging by seniors
in your first year followed by you ragging ur juniors
the very next year, your own gang of friends, the
dhabas and movies and beaches you visited with
them … the long bike/car rides speeding above limit,
remember those days when you would cram for your
exams and have late night teas to keep urself awake
so that you can “pass” the exam, about the times when
you would have long conversations with your hostel
friends about random things in life and of course the
gossips going on in the college … you remember the
long walks in your campus or umpteen visits to the
canteen, running at the last min to enter your hostel
before the curfew, mass bunking classes jus coz you
are bored or want to watch a movie as a gang,
getting ODs for college culturals and tech fests,
song dedications and proposals and rejections, bday
bump and bday treats, huge mess bills and even
bigger canteen bills, sneaking out to meet your bf/gf...
prepaid sim with unlimited SMSes… regular visits to
archies and CCDs to enjoy the AC, a lil bit of tension
of getting “placed” or GRE/CAT prep ….and off you go
to start another phase of your life offering a new
path…
All this while you see a sea of faces, some of which you
prominently remember, while others are faded
memory, best friends, arch enemies, juniors, seniors
and super seniors… names bounce of your head and
make you wonder where are they and what are they
doing now ...they are others you are in touch with…
you wish for gathering with all the different people
from you past .. wish some one would take initiative
from their busy life to organize something where you
can relive your past… there are ppl with whom you
never spoke before but are now best friends with …
laughing about all the missed years of friendship ….
then they are others who were your best friends but
now you don’t even have any idea what they are up
to…sometimes you wish you had been more active and
stayed in touch and other times you wonder wat
exactly happened to cause this drift …
aahhh .. these memories … bring both a smile and tear
on your face…makes you wonder about the different
paths you might have taken and the results of those
paths…And then you realize that you even don’t
know the future of the path you have taken now…this
realization makes you hope that the
relationships which you have now last forever and
grow stronger by the hour … makes you hope that the
you forge new bonds and also repair some of the old
ones …. makes you hope tat you remember all these
moments in the future as vividly as they are now!!!
12 comments:
luv the way u had quoted incidents in chronological order :) relived my past in all its true sense for the minutes i spent reading ur post.... good old days! wish i cld get them back...atleast starting with my high school :(
an addon...
luved the title of the post.... cannot find anything closer... ppl who wld understand hindi will be able to appreciate it :)
@Shobana - we all wish the same ... I miss those days !! me too loved the title !!
The very purpose of your post was to relive your moments. After going through the post, I started to get into nostalgia, which in itself speaks volumes about how felt your post is.. Kudos!!!
@Bharath - Guess sometimes we are all thinking about similar things :D Thanks for the encouragement!
No Way!!! Bubbles wrote a nice sensible post. Especially on something out of the food box... :D
Memories, nostalgia, past - Remains for ever.
Future - What's that about?
Present - Live, chill, enzoi....
Relationship - TTMM seems to have enough in his kitty bag to keep u out of nostalgia for.... errrr.... ever I'd suppose. ;)
@Red Phoenix - Thanks :) Not fair, on the acct that I have not written a food blog in a while .. plus i write those so that you would want to eat and thus come visit me ;) ..Future is vague coz I am taking a new step again and moving away from my well settled life in Columbus .. sigh .. but yeah looking fwd to the new life too !! and TTMM is always there to cheer me up ;)
Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope. Against all logic. Against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope.
Nee yaarunnu teriyaadhu.. Aaana sounda sonnapa!!! Sound party pola teriyidhu... Nways Bubbles - no life is settled, unless ur retired (with loads of green bills). Change is what that really keeps us live life interestingly. (I know it coz am desperately searching for one ;) )
@Sound - enna orey poetic and with full intense :) But I agree ..and with due respect to u, I shud have included this in post "helping friends with their luggage every semester" :P
@Red Phoenix - This is Sounderya, ur chem junior (my batch)! I love change but I would like to know wat change to anticipate .. at the moment, I knw only change but there is more to happen! Glad u r looking for change and I hope u find a good one soon :D
Thinking on your first two lines, has driven me to few more questions and those are,
Was it in pursuit of happiness
or in comparison of our present status to past or to justify our (good/bad) decisions or to bring back the past or to compromise ourselves by thinking that or an impact of lost (good/bad) relationship or to cherish that or to forget that or or or or......oh my god, enough "or's"....am driven crazy....
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