I have often noticed that most us tend to change topics when the discussion gravitates to someone that is no more or at times about someone who's no more a part of our lives.
My strong belief is that this approach seldom eases or gives vent to the hurt or pain that we are so carefully attempting to guard. Also perhaps an indication that we have not reconciled to the facts.
If life is a story strung with memories and pictures of the past; many beautiful ones and a few of them painful; then does it not make more sense to look back at the times you had?
What is it that makes us walk away from this walk down the memory lane? Is it like a smoker getting back to smoking? Are we really afraid of the craving for more that this memory jog will create?
Such fears I guess, are unfounded.
Every time you reminisce it's actually an emotional roller-coaster... you are bound to cover the happy and the sad both!
Like I mentioned earlier in Separate Lives there are many people whom we're close to, but we still do not make a serious attempt at staying in touch with them or know that you're never gone see them again. If we can dig out ole tales of our times with them, then why not people in the category we are discussing.
My reasons for saying so??? Well, these are perhaps another set of people whom you'll not see or meet...These are people with whom you had better if not equally great times with.
I remember reading somewhere that if a lifetime is nothing but moments you remember...and if you could somehow compress all these moments together...Then, a lifetime is perhaps just a couple of days!!!!
So why not cherish these special moments spent with those special people in our lives?
Couldn't help summing this up with a few lines from a song by Kool and the Gang..
"Cherish the love we have... Let's cherish the life we live... Let's cherish every moment we have been given..........."
My strong belief is that this approach seldom eases or gives vent to the hurt or pain that we are so carefully attempting to guard. Also perhaps an indication that we have not reconciled to the facts.
If life is a story strung with memories and pictures of the past; many beautiful ones and a few of them painful; then does it not make more sense to look back at the times you had?
What is it that makes us walk away from this walk down the memory lane? Is it like a smoker getting back to smoking? Are we really afraid of the craving for more that this memory jog will create?
Such fears I guess, are unfounded.
Every time you reminisce it's actually an emotional roller-coaster... you are bound to cover the happy and the sad both!
Like I mentioned earlier in Separate Lives there are many people whom we're close to, but we still do not make a serious attempt at staying in touch with them or know that you're never gone see them again. If we can dig out ole tales of our times with them, then why not people in the category we are discussing.
My reasons for saying so??? Well, these are perhaps another set of people whom you'll not see or meet...These are people with whom you had better if not equally great times with.
I remember reading somewhere that if a lifetime is nothing but moments you remember...and if you could somehow compress all these moments together...Then, a lifetime is perhaps just a couple of days!!!!
So why not cherish these special moments spent with those special people in our lives?
Couldn't help summing this up with a few lines from a song by Kool and the Gang..
"Cherish the love we have... Let's cherish the life we live... Let's cherish every moment we have been given..........."
