DISQUS

Deez · 4 years ago

inevitable part of "growing up" is "out-growing"....clothers, food, books, music, people, relatonships, associations, passions, dreams........what not!


until next time, how much will we grow out of, and what will we grow up to be?

Pallavi · 4 years ago

its easy to associate your emotions with inanimate things because they wont respond... LOL but with people ... well its difficult coz it hurts when expectations are not met... so guess another lesson yes in growing up :)

Richa · 4 years ago

women have a tendency to store inaminate things .. dont they?
i have weird stuff from past still with me; which i have carried from lko to delhi to mumbai .. and now i dont have a place to store it.and it slowly has to be thrown / given away.

and mind you am talkin of inaminate stuff only, lest you try n read between the lines, manu.

Anz · 4 years ago

i cant even start counting the things im so attached to or was but now when i dont have them around i so wish they were there but then we do have to discard sometimes to get hold of new :D and yes like the others have said this is only with inanimate things...humans are sometimes way too precious to lose :)

erratica · 4 years ago

there are soooo many things i m attached to. memories and memoirs. when i was in school, i never used my camera, thinking that i will always remeber all those moments as i want them to be remebered. looking back, i think that was the biggest mistake. i long for snaps that were taken n i dont hv ne :(. thankfully my friends were a lot smarter, so i hv an access to those snaps even now :)

Ash · 4 years ago

What a wonderful post, Manu.


When I left for the states, I wasnt sad..I was excited and looking forward to the opportunities that lay before me. Its only after I reached here and settled down, that I realised all that I had left and lost.



I miss a lot of little and big things. And the unfortunate bit is that they exist only in the past and in my memories. Going back to Bombay, or going back to my family, will not bring those back.



Its deeply saddening, but has also taught me to hold the present more preciously ...

GratisGab · 4 years ago

I have favorite clothes that I refuse to throw away ever! It was my Mom who would force me to dump some old stuff and now I run wild and unsupervised, hoarding all that is dear...No wonder the place has so much JUNK according to the hubby! :)

blokes · 4 years ago

getting transfered around along with dad ensured a minimalist lifestyle! Keep just the essentials around. That also meant, invest just in the essentials. So no junk. After marriage was when I indulged in collecting "keepsakes" as we were stationary ( even those got trimmed when I painted the house!)! Now what does that say about keeping treasures?! I remember that school "drill" on a possible fire situation ( an indian school trying to be very american!) and we were asked to take out our most precious things and all i could think of were my toothbrush and school books and some clothes!

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

deez: oho, looks like we are growing in to 'until next time...' :)


pallavi" yes, so many lessons!!

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

sanguine: me, read between the lines? :o


anz: yes, sometimes.... only sometimes..

Arunima · 4 years ago

ok, plesae tell me what to do with the letters and cards of ex-boyfriend?


:-)

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

erratica: always good to snap.. at people :D


ash: wish we had blogs then :)

Stone · 4 years ago

Forget clothes, I've some real weird stuff with me, and still I dunno the answer, neither I confront them nor I throw them.

aqua · 4 years ago

i know..things that you held so dearly to, and after some years something will have turned inside you and you no longer feel the same way about it..(but not with my knit rag doll named beauty :) )

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

gabby: in time.. i guess he will realise in time..hehe


blokes: i was supposed to make myself a 'things to take if i have to run out of the house' (around the time the tsunami happened).. never got around to doing it!! :(

J · 4 years ago

i wanna spideyman t-shirt!!! :(

phatichar · 4 years ago

hehehe...yeah, it's all a part of growing up. I had an entire carton of superman comics and other collectibles (An uncle from US had even gifted me a superman costume, complete with cape and all). *Sigh*, those were the days...

Poornima · 4 years ago

White and red horizontal stripes...Hmmm...Salman Khan wore one very similar in Khamoshi.(no fan business here pls!)


Maybe it isnt as outdated as you think it is.



At least your sense of fashion seems respectable. I have to burn all my old albums after reading this!

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

arunima: use the text for the next one :D


stone: hehe, all of us do!!

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

aqua: lol :)


j: the old one, or buying a new one?? :)

Mirage · 4 years ago

I remember I used to have a fav soft toy- the pink panther. I wouldnt be seen without it! My czn n I bought it together at the age of 4 or 5...she outgrew her obsession for it way before I did! I think I let it go by the time I was 13 or somethin! Damn, those were good times...

manuscrypts · 4 years ago

phatichar:..that we thought would never end...:)


poornima: i had a black and red combo!!

Parii · 4 years ago

Yea, there are memories you want to forget and memories you want to hold on to forever... and sometimes they change places.