What Goes Around Comes Back Around...

Following the laws of nature, life always completes a full circle. What goes around, comes back around... Sometime or the other, life catches up on you. Its clutches are inescapable. Though I have to admit, it teaches well.

Of late, I have noticed, life always places you on both the sides of a situation. The wounder becomes the wounded; the cheater becomes the cheated; the gainer, the loser. The person involved may be different, the times, the conditions varied. The emotions, however, of the people involved, though may differ in intensity, but in essence, do not change.

The teaching pattern differs. Sometimes, you are given the test first, and then taught the lesson, and sometimes, it is the other way round. You are however, taught every lesson and have to face every test, eventually. Like I said, life teaches well.

Growing Up

Yesterday, while visiting my nani, or moti mummy, as we call her, me and my sister were recollecting the days we'd spent there years ago. Having spent almost half my vacations during school days there, I have a sursprisingly few memories of those times. However, thinking back, whatever few memories I do have, have a cheerful and a carefree edge to them.

I clearly remember days on which our sole aim used to collecting little white flowers from the nearby garden and making a garland of them. Then there were times we used to invent crazy games and spend hours playing them. Each day started with a new, fresh agenda and all our life thoughts were limited to those few hours.

I try and compare those past times to these current ones. Doing things just for the sake of doing them, without caring about their usefulness, not having to think about the important things in life; these seem like a long lost art. I wish I could live life like that again, without any cares in the world.

But I guess that's the thing about growing up, you can't be a child anymore...