A Stroll to the Good Old Days: A Journey Through Past.

A Childhood Memory of Good Old Days.

Yesterday, while lying in the bed for brief nap in hot summer afternoon of global North, I drifted to the good old days memories of my childhood. Those days, at around 6.15 p.m., we used to finish our evening play in our uncle’s campus, who was our next door neighbour.

His sprawling campus had a beautiful garden with various beds of flowers and in between them were straight to semi circular pathways. Here we played some sort of self improvised games like picking earthen lumps from flower beds and throwing them at our opponents who were taking position behind the shrubs on opposite side. It felt like a thrill when someone got hit with these earthen lumps which were not hurtful either.

In the finishing moments of our game, Gulab Chacha (our neighbour) signaled at us to have the evening snacks together. He was a man of taste and substance. The snacks sometime included roasted corn with sprinkles of salt, pepper and lemon. At other times it used to be omelette shreds mixed in to fried flattened rice flakes. Those flavour and aroma of delicious snacks at uncle’s house still linger in our hearts.

This good old memory of childhood days triggered in me a gush of impulse. At once I headed to market for buying eggs and flattened rice flakes. While leaving, I asked my wife about my plan to prepare this age old snacks for the evening, which she agreed.

That evening I relished not only food stuff but also the taste of good old days and forgotten times! The energy and the excitement that filled in me, diluted all the monotonicity looming over me. A feel of rejuvenation cheered me to the deep.

At Intervals, Do Take a Stroll to the Memories of Old Days.

There are many interesting things buried in our old memories which we must revisit and try to relive.

Remember the days when you, your siblings, and your friends were minor, and, your parents, uncles and aunts were in their youth. Recreation of the pleasant memories of these good old days opens before you a new vista through which you can look at, of what mental construct you were in those days, and, what you are now. It gives you a pause to introspect many things at many levels. Out of these, you have to filter the happy moments out for you.

This rediscovery of your past, provides you opportunity to recognise your positive attributes like your strength, courage, leadership qualities, planning abilities, flexibility and spontaneity which were present in your personality since your childhood days.

Your these natural instincts which have gathered dust over the years and lie in the oblivion, need to be retrieved and acted upon.

Many Different Ways to Revisit Old Days.

1. Maintaining good relation with members of society and family is always beneficial. While interacting with people who in some way or the other have touched your life, do not forget to mention those happy proud moments to which they were also a witness. They certainly will endorse some of your attributes which had impressed them someway or the other and till this moment you were not paying attention to them.
2. If you love writing diary on daily basis, just go through it. It will certainly help you correct your ways and help underline your those inner attributes that had brought some or the other glorious moment in past.
3. When I passed my class ten, I grew very much nostalgic about my cloths that I wore during school years, at home or school. I washed and ironed shirts of my childhood and adolescent years and kept them in a bag. How could I forget them? They were part of me all these years. When I see at print of these cloths, a series of old memories begin to unfold – some good, some bad, some funny, some sad. Some reminded me even of the season and the weather when I had worn them. Who knows, someday they will help me immensely by reminding how fast I could run in my those shorts during school days !
4. We have in our campus, an out house where we keep our old and waste articles. Though all households these days may not have this luxury, but in villages they have it. You may find here broken handles of an old umbrella, old photo frame, old kerosene lamp, old jerrycan, decorative old perfume bottle, old door locks, old gramophone along with its discs and many more. Walking through them feels me like sent in old times. It is a magic. A glimpse of my old school tiffin box unleashed before me the love and flavour my mom used to put in it, for me.
5. Flipping through an old album trigger many old memories. They help join dots and recreate a forgotten life segment.

And Don’t Forget To….

Our life is so beautiful. It looks even more beautiful when we grow past its stages. Complexities and stress of present life never lets us realise its beauty. But memories of good old days illuminate the forgotten beauty of life.

Hence never forget to preserve an article or stuff that relates to your past. After all these objects and articles of old days will tell you and remind you about your distant past, will pat on your back, caress your cheeks and pamper your hairs with affection.