Bittersweet Symphony

"Somewhere along the road on which we used to walk,
Someone had planted a memory.
The memory lay concealed in a tiny cardboard box,
Until the rain came and washed away the memory"

There are so many memories tucked away in some corner of our heart....which we do not want to remember, or which we would conveniently like to forget. Some good, some bad, some bitter, some sweet.....but is it really possible to forget them!?

I was thinking about this yesterday and realised that there's not a thing that i have forgotten....i remember them all....the good, the bad, the bitter, the sweet.....all of them! It's just that i need to search deep within my heart and look for that particular record which i want to play. Somewhat like viewing the memory in a pensieve (people who have seen Harry Potter will know this).

I wonder how many of us actually do that.....i do it when i am all alone, sitting and reflecting at the times passed by......remembering the people, the places and instances which i felt i had forgotten long long ago.


I remember Hyderabad, the place where i started walking, the place where i first went to school, the place which gave me the innumerable sweet memories....memories which i shall never forget because those were the best days of my life....a life that was free from complications, politics, back biting, deceit and all of that, which are a part of my life today.

I remember the time when we got transferred to Calcutta, i remember the tears that had come streaming down my face.....i remember the feeling of being alienated, the feeling of being an out caste....not able to understand why the kids there treated my this way....i remember coming back home from school and never wanting to go back again!


I remember the feeling of happiness when we went from Calcutta to Bhubaneswar. The pain that i went through when i realised that the friends who i loved the most were not meant to be forever!! I remember the rushes of first love....love which was here to stay....the first heart break which made me hate myself for trusting the wrong person. The emptiness which i felt when i lost my grandpa....never to see him again!

The pangs of loneliness which i went through due to the vagaries of a long distance relationship.....i can see them coming back again......am i happy? am i sad? i don't know about that, but these memories i know will stay forever because these memories make me....i am what i am because of them. So tell me, what is it that you thought you had forgotten but you still remember? What does this post remind you of?