Saturdays are particularly difficult days to work. But you got to do it. So I set out today as usual. On my way to work I saw a girl and a guy chatting away to glory on the roadside. Nothing spectacular but I had a smile on my face because it had brought a lot of memories from my college days back.
How many times have we wondered, if only I could bring back the days of the past? I am constantly reminded of this song by Travis in his album Ode to J. Smith whose lyrics read like this
In the days before we were young
We used to sit in the morning sun
We used to turn the radio on
What happened?
We yearn for the bygones. Lots of us have this feeling that those days when we were younger, more innocent and more ignorant were much better. Given a chance we would love to go back and live that life. We would love to go back and not only live those times but also in a much better way because now we know the value of that fleeting moment. We now know what all we could have done. May be there was an episode we would like to change the details, maybe there was a person we may not have offended, maybe there was a person we would have expressed how much we care for him/her or maybe there was just the time when we had fun. We would just have more and more fun and make the best use of the time available. Because now we know that we can’t return to it. It would be like that guy who lived one day of his life to the fullest because he knew he was dying the next day.
But let’s stop for a moment here and think. Why didn’t we do all the things that we know now should have been done. Why were there so many days where we could have utilized them differently? The answer to the question lies in this cliché – because the grass is greener on the other side. Something else like growing up or securing a career had probably taken up our mind space. But that’s just the way the age is. A 17 year old is not supposed to know or understand a 30 year old’s life. Every age has significance and a void. The void has to be just as beautiful as the significance. Else the natural progression of the human body and mind over years can get messed up.
So in your younger days you had things you could have done and things you did do. But like everything that passed. This too shall pass. So memories are great as long as you remember them and not live in them.
How many times have we wondered, if only I could bring back the days of the past? I am constantly reminded of this song by Travis in his album Ode to J. Smith whose lyrics read like this
In the days before we were young
We used to sit in the morning sun
We used to turn the radio on
What happened?
We yearn for the bygones. Lots of us have this feeling that those days when we were younger, more innocent and more ignorant were much better. Given a chance we would love to go back and live that life. We would love to go back and not only live those times but also in a much better way because now we know the value of that fleeting moment. We now know what all we could have done. May be there was an episode we would like to change the details, maybe there was a person we may not have offended, maybe there was a person we would have expressed how much we care for him/her or maybe there was just the time when we had fun. We would just have more and more fun and make the best use of the time available. Because now we know that we can’t return to it. It would be like that guy who lived one day of his life to the fullest because he knew he was dying the next day.
But let’s stop for a moment here and think. Why didn’t we do all the things that we know now should have been done. Why were there so many days where we could have utilized them differently? The answer to the question lies in this cliché – because the grass is greener on the other side. Something else like growing up or securing a career had probably taken up our mind space. But that’s just the way the age is. A 17 year old is not supposed to know or understand a 30 year old’s life. Every age has significance and a void. The void has to be just as beautiful as the significance. Else the natural progression of the human body and mind over years can get messed up.
So in your younger days you had things you could have done and things you did do. But like everything that passed. This too shall pass. So memories are great as long as you remember them and not live in them.
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