Memories revisited
Today met up with my cousin’s cousin. We grew up together and had a nice time. Met her after quite a long while. We remembered the summer vacations with cousins, simple delights like being taken to the park, being given ice creams, watching movies on video which made us very nostalgic. Made me realize how precious relationships are. It is so rare to find people whom you can share things with and be yourself.
As you grow up, get married, and move away from your immediate circle of family, friends, and relations, you realize over the years how much you took people for granted, how much love and affection you had and at that time how little you valued them.
Set me thinking. In today’s fast paced world where relations are rapidly taking back seat, kids are more computer savvy, play stations and computers are the norm and they do not even get to experience extended families. I wonder how it will affect them. They wont have any fond memories of granny telling stories at bedtime and fighting with cousins for the previlege to sleep next to her every night, finding out delicacies made and hidden by her for fear that we will finish it all off in one day, taking turns are riding the rented bike, etc, etc.
But then maybe they will have other memories of their own to cherish. How am I to know. Maybe they would find all the above pretty boring and very uncool! Only time will tell.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Yeah, the things I took for granted are farthest away now - it hurts, sometimes.
Life always seems to have been simpler in the past.