When i have titled this 'Roads in life', I mean in literally. Its a wonderful thing how important the roads and streets in your life. Everybody has memories attached to streets and lanes they know. There is always a specific street or junction or an avenue where someone feels secure, free, emotionally full or happy. Nobody can forget the places where they spent their childhood.
Whenever I hit my home, I like to ride cycle or bike or take a bus to the place where I spent my childhood and school years. I know every nook and corner of those roads. Even the footpath slab seems familiar. Its also a fact that when you are small you can see them closely and moreover you have the time to watch them especially if you were walking holding the hand of your mom.
Also during school days nothing is better than having a bicycle of your own and the free will to roam around. You will be familiar with almost all places around including the dead ends. I have my own favourite coffee shop, sweet shop, park, garden all well clear in my memories.
Also I have noted that all your bizarre, weird and normal seeming dreams are located in some of the familiar streets or places most of the time. There is nothing that can signify nostalgia than going to a place where you lived and sit there and ponder.
A rather interesting thing which prompted me to write this is that how new roads and lanes become part of your current or new life. The feeling when places that were totally alien, streets that were totally confusing, roads with unknown bearing become part of daily life. The feeling when you start loving the same roads which you cursed for making you unable to reach the home. The sign boards which you strained to read becomes familiar that you never mind it. The growing knowledge of shops and stores around these streets makes you feel confident.
Although we all know there is only one sun and moon, actually there is a different sun and moon for all places. When you live in a new place you don't know them. You don't know which direction they rise from and which direction they go, how bad sun is going to warm you. So you cannot find that friendly guy whom you could look for directions when you are lost. Instead there will be always a strange new sun staring at you thinking who is this new guy? But later as you get familiar they also became friendly and start helping you. In the congested dyspgenic streets of Delhi I see the moon very rarely.
There are also streets where you want to be at least once in a lifetime and never in a lifetime. I dream of that avenue where I am going to have my dream home. More roads are waiting for me ahead which will enter as a strangers and going to be family.
Whenever I hit my home, I like to ride cycle or bike or take a bus to the place where I spent my childhood and school years. I know every nook and corner of those roads. Even the footpath slab seems familiar. Its also a fact that when you are small you can see them closely and moreover you have the time to watch them especially if you were walking holding the hand of your mom.
Also during school days nothing is better than having a bicycle of your own and the free will to roam around. You will be familiar with almost all places around including the dead ends. I have my own favourite coffee shop, sweet shop, park, garden all well clear in my memories.
Also I have noted that all your bizarre, weird and normal seeming dreams are located in some of the familiar streets or places most of the time. There is nothing that can signify nostalgia than going to a place where you lived and sit there and ponder.
A rather interesting thing which prompted me to write this is that how new roads and lanes become part of your current or new life. The feeling when places that were totally alien, streets that were totally confusing, roads with unknown bearing become part of daily life. The feeling when you start loving the same roads which you cursed for making you unable to reach the home. The sign boards which you strained to read becomes familiar that you never mind it. The growing knowledge of shops and stores around these streets makes you feel confident.
Although we all know there is only one sun and moon, actually there is a different sun and moon for all places. When you live in a new place you don't know them. You don't know which direction they rise from and which direction they go, how bad sun is going to warm you. So you cannot find that friendly guy whom you could look for directions when you are lost. Instead there will be always a strange new sun staring at you thinking who is this new guy? But later as you get familiar they also became friendly and start helping you. In the congested dyspgenic streets of Delhi I see the moon very rarely.
There are also streets where you want to be at least once in a lifetime and never in a lifetime. I dream of that avenue where I am going to have my dream home. More roads are waiting for me ahead which will enter as a strangers and going to be family.
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