Memories

Some of the most significant moments in life never get captured in a picture. The only place they get recorded for posterity is in our hearts. One look. One touch on the arm. The tiniest of moments end up being more important than the huge in-your-face milestone moments. We often underestimate the power that these memories have. They are not the black and white polaroid pictures that get stacked up in the far corner of the closet. They get saved in that fragile corner of the heart which we are scared to touch again. But once touched they are capable of transporting you to the past. You remember exactly how u felt, what u were wearing, what u were doing, u remember the smell of the wet sand, how the wind was blowing your hair, how u wanted to get carried away in the moment. These memories make you desperate to feel what u felt then. They have an uncanny knack of magnifying the effect of the moment from the past.
What you end up realising is that you never can feel that again. U realise that age has caught up with u. U'll never be as naive or pure as u were then to have the heart to let yourself get swayed in the moment. Or is it just the present which makes us want to imagine a past which was so beautiful even though it was just as complicated as the present??
Why the hell do we have to grow up!!??

Distance

They say "Distance makes the heart grow fonder". They also say "out of sight, out of mind". Both are equally true.

• A guy meets his girlfriend just about once or twice a year since they live in different cities. What is it that makes a guy look for the perfect spatula for his girlfriend since he saw her cook italian food once? Everytime he steps out to shop his eyes dont stop searching for something, anything that she would like.


• A father is in the middle of a party which has been thrown in honour of his achievement. What makes him call up his son living in a different city just when the band starts to play 'Hotel California' since he knows the son likes that song?

The simple answer is Love. In the above 2 situations the answer is definitely true, unadulterated love. But in other cases there is a not so simple answer as well. Whenever someone dear to us goes away(geographically), the relationship comprises mostly of the short conversations every couple of days. You dont get to meet for long intervals and the conversations are all specific and not pointless or random. The relationship becomes a figment of your imagination. It is what you percieve it to be. It is ruled by what one feels in those moments of being away. It is how many times you live the memories in the past over and over again in your head. You keep em alive. They bring a smile to your face every time. And the person becomes the one responsible for these memories. But is it real? You dont know if the same things remind the same person of you and the memories together.

Its all in the mind.