The Good Old Times

Do you sometime feel nostalgic about things which once used to be part of your daily life and now does not even exist, well i do.This is the beauty of being human, you love pleasant changes, you work hard for betterment and then when you achieve your aims you tend to miss your previous state, nevertheless you forgive yourself by telling that you can still do better and start working for next cycle of change.And the human race keeps on progressing.

I am going to tell something about things i miss in present world which seems to be a complex automaton built upon countless turing machines and running on a string of zeros and ones (huh! that was a smart way to tell that i am a computer engg. Lol). Anyways let me start the list of those things

Sunday Morning Shows : Well i was an avid fan of all the sunday morning T.V. shows when i was a kid. They usually used to be epic dramas like Mahabharata, Chanakya , Sword of Tipu Sultan and of course how can i forget that "yagg" of krur singh from Chandrakanta.Ofcourse when you look at them now they might seem to be ludicrous but i used to cherish them as a kid. I miss that kind of fun, it just vanished with the age i guess.

Chatt Cricket(Cricket on the Roof!) : yea, with little open spaces around our houses what we did as kids was to play cricket on the roofs with our parents yelling at us to come down and we just kept on ignoring them as if they are not loud enough.And then we used to come up with crazy rules which made cricket more suitable for that place.We even had our ways to keep a check on the bowler so that he never delivers a really fast delivery and ofcourse if the batsmen hits the ball out of the ground he was not applauded on the contrary he was penalised by buying us a new ball(in case we lose it). I really miss those good days when we had enough time to do all that stuff.

Summer Holidays : If there was anything we waited throughout the year it was either summer holidays or the Mango season.Holidays used to be so much fun back then, we used to have lot of plans with our family.A trip to a nearby hill station was a must as if they wont let us enter school again if we failed to do so.And who can forget the days we spent at our naunihals, where we really behaved as a king in the castle.And the last few days of holidays were hectic when all of us used to be busy with our holidays homework and projects(which no matter what you do cannot be completed anyhow).Life was so much cool back then.

There are so many more things which i can't even describe, i don't know how well i can describe the times when electricity went off and there were no inverters, so what we usually ended up doing was playing antakshiri with all the uncles and aunts and cousins singing along.How can i describe the times when there were no video games to play and all that we used to play was pithoo gaarm, aais paais and chhepan-chhepai.The times when bisleris were not sold in the trains and we worried if papa will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down at stations to fill up the water bottle.The times when there were no caller tunes to listen but a simple tring-tring of landlines which used to be in one out of every five households.The times when our teachers were not afraid of our parents while slapping us and when 90% marks would mean a free ice-cream at nearby nirulas (ofcourse i never managed to get 90% but my brother did and we used to share the ice-cream..Lol).

Though i miss all those things and a lot more i know that the world is changing for a better future so the best thing we can do is to feel good about the old times and enjoy the present while working for a bright tomorrow.

Regards,

Khukii