That’s what we (me & my PG mates) did yesterday night, we laughed & laughed & laughed. I felt like I was back in the hostel where there would be such frequent bouts of laughter for no reason whatsoever.
All this happened, as there was a power cut because of the sudden heavy rains .We started reciting school prayers & nursery rhymes!!(I still remember one of my school prayers, which we all used to hum as if in sleep!) I donno what triggered this, but it was as if the memories of our childhoods were tickling us and we were all rolling with laughter. Then we strated sharing all those funny ideas & beliefs we had as children, when we were gullible enough to believe anything & everything.
- if u eat the seeds of a fruit a tree will sprout out from ur body.
- If u drink lots of water, pet main kichad ho jayega(stomach will become swampy)!!(: D)
Ideas that some parent must’ve invented to answer a child’s persistent questions & which somehow have seeped into more or less everyone’s childhood.
The talk then rambled; different names for different things in different languages; the different festivals we celebrate, with Shilpa telling the names of 3 festivals not knowing that they were one & the same! (And with Arpita mishearing a word to particular hilarious effect!);old hindi song;our dreams & nightmares; our ignorance & innocence till we got enlightened in the hostel(;))
With the common denominator being the laughter that accompanied everything.We were scared that our neighbours would come & shout at us!! Amidst all this I remembered a story (‘A temporary matter’) from ‘Intrepreter of maladies’ (one of my favorite books) its about a couple on brink of break up, who come to terms with their relationship during powercuts.
Powercuts are not as bad afterall; we should have more of them.
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4 comments:
nice, feel good post!
hehe! people do tend to get nostalgic now and then! and hey! the kid in us refuses to grow up, no?! well i prefer it that way! :)
yep! me too reminded of that story from the book... well unless the heat's killing u, power-cuts and blackouts are times for masti!
i guess it was after months that i laughed like a mad person. every1 of us have a child in them. dont know wat ppl think abt it but i do not find it embarassing or stupid to tell abt my childhood notions and incidents. yesterday the way we shared those stupid things it was really very nice. i really hope there are few more power failures and few more misunderstandings just like arpita had yesterday :) .....
@smartalec
Thanks dude!a trip to home will whet it even more! This is growing up I feel, when u can act matured or kiddish whenever u want to! ;)
btw, did u finish that book, it has some really good stories. I don't mind them even if its hot, powercuts are a nice excuse for doing nothing! ;)
@dolly
ya i know,u were in form that day! and why should we be ashamed of our memories!We will do it more often, powercuts or no powercuts!
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