reminiscing about old days
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
India
December 27, 2007 4:15am CST
Christmas on Tuesday gave a rare opportunity to all of us to have an extended holiday. Most of us bunked office on Monday and since Saturday itself we were having a gala time in our own way. I took the opportunity to stay at home and catch up on a lot of things, rest included. My parents took this opportunity to get away on a small vacation with their only grandchild. So on Thursday last I trudged into my parents’ house to look after last minute packings and just as I was pulling out some woolens from the closet, this snap drops on the floor. I took it up and there I was gone for a few minutes at least. How time flies! This snap was taken when my son was about a year old, in my parent’s bedroom. Mom was not so old, kiddo was so cuddly and I was so fresh into motherhood that it had not yet left its imprint on me. Seven years and it seems a lifetime really. Sometimes I do wish I could hang on to those days but then reality catches up on me and I know its best to move on.
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@abhi_destar (764)
• India
28 Dec 07
I know people may think otherwise, but nostalgia gives me so much pain that I usually do not dare to look back to the past. Everybody may say that nostalgia also gives them a sort of pain in the heart and a longing to go back to the lost days. But they also feel slightly better while thinking about the good times. My life has been going downhill so much that remembering the good old days simply tears my heart apart. Most of all, when I remember my younger parents, I feel very sad. They are steadily aging. My father is nearing retirement. That's why I choose to tuck away the memories in one corner of my mind and just get along with the day-to-day battles of daily life. I don't look aat the past. Neither can I see the future. It's too foggy and I don't know where I may be heading. I just battle it out in the present.
@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
27 Dec 07
It's a good thing to live in the 'now' but who would we be if we didn't remember where we came from. I'm very nostalgic, sometimes to my detrement, but I love reminiscing about the old days. Good memories and old snapshots of the past help us appreciate the things of today. But I regress - - -
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
27 Dec 07
i know what you mean sudipta. time really flies so fast. me and my friends also had some reminiscing last Christmas. we looked at our old pictures back when we were high schoolers and that was almost 10 years ago. my friend's husband was teasing us saying we looked ugly when were young and we didn't had any sense of fashion. ^__^;; he saw a wacky picture of his wife and he compared it with his son's face and joked that they really looked the same.
we couldn't really imagine that time has passed and we had changed a lot. more than we could have imagined before. we never cared about anything then and we didn't really think about our future. we felt we're gonna be young forever. ^__^;;
