Lost and found the festivals...

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? :-)