The feeling that subdues all
other feelings for a while when it comes. No matter how hard you try it always takes
place at the right time. And why even try, you actually like the feeling
yourself. Though it brings a little sadness and melancholy at times, that’s not
the case always. Like I distinctly remember the Diwali homework, whenever I go
home for Diwali. Ahh! Not a good feeling,
even now, after years. But what to do, nostalgiaJ. The best part of it is that when you encounter it,
it gives you a chance to live the happy moments once again irrespective of
what’s going on in your life, whether the same people still exist, and how much
the time has changed since the last time you felt the same.
Remember, when you did the Diwali
Aarti with family, covered your head under the blanket when your brother fired
the crackers, ate too much on a Diwali night, or thought the cracker wasn’t
going to fire but as soon as you turned it did, when all day you kept calling
and getting happy Diwali calls from
friends and family and couldn’t stop smiling, when you met an old friend after
years, or landed in your city just on Diwali day and observed all the light and
decoration you used to see as a child, a tear that came till the corner of the
eye but never rolled down the cheek, and you forgot job and tensions and
clients and targets and even how things
have changed.
Remember the last time you were with yourself? The biggest magic of nostalgia. Around close ones in
festive time one comes closer to themselves. It’s when we try to live the old
memories live, that the belief of
becoming one with YOU comes into our mind. I guess the actual purpose of “good old memories” is only solved when
they can make us the same person we were when we actually lived the moment.
Some link nostalgia with places
as the original meaning says, but I think it mainly has to do with the feelings
attached with it. Remember the last time you were only celebrating the lights
and not the fire burning in your heart? The last time you smiled because you
were happy in festive mood and not because you had to. The last time you fought
with your sibling for a cracker and not for a project with your boss. You ate
not for eating but for the feel and the taste! When you woke up with the noise
of chirping birds and not with an alarm sound. When you went for shopping for
happiness and not for a bad mood.
Smile is what came to my face
when I wrote this, as it brought me closer to myself, the good person, that
nobody knows. Bring out the same person this Diwali, enlighten your face as it
was, back then. Smile. It’s Diwali,
the same old Diwali J
