So, at
some point in time, there is this guy... an average bookworm as a child, an
enthusiast as a youngster, and a relatively calm intellectual as a matured
person...
The guy
having spent all his childhood and adolescence in home town, one fine day goes
out for studies and job... He loses himself in the cultural diversities that
India has to offer... and in the process he finds himself... The initial
homesickness turns into sense of global belonging... He is probably the
happiest the way he is right now...
But soon
as the clock ticks, this 'right now' becomes 'sometime back'... The guy is now
back to his hometown, which probably is 'the best thing possible' as his family
and local relatives would have him to believe... The guy struggles to believe
so as always... probably due to lacking rationale or real-time experience of
the things being as fantastic as they used to be in his childhood at home...
But
somehow he sticks around... He tries to believe that at least the festivals
would be the same as they used to be way back in his childhood... But he is
mistaken... There come the festivals Rakhi, Navratri, Diwali, Makarsankrati and
so on.
As they
say, change is the only constant... He notices that the festivities and the
aura has changed over years... but nonetheless, the festivals are being
celebrated... Still, somehow the guy is not excited as much as he wants to be
by the festivities around him... He is afraid that he has lost the youth within
him, which he doesn't wanna let happen at any cost... He tries to figure out
why...
And he
realizes that probably not the festivities but his festivals are CHANGED... The
things which gave him childlike joy have been replaced... He is enthusiastic
about some other things now...
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The child
burning crackers has probably grown up finding that sound noisy... The child
who was keen on flying kites has grown up to be wanting to fly himself... He
now fantasizes himself climbing mountains, doing skydiving, cliff jumping, and a whole lot of crazy stuff... and of course, taking Selfies during that...
He has
grown up realizing that may be he doesn't want the calendar to decide his
festivals... Rather he wants to decide his festivals and mark them on the
calendar...
This guy
is a social outlier on a social 'normal curve' if not a social outcast... He
lost and found his festivals his own way... Did we? :-)
