Friday, February 05, 2010

Requiem for the Dusk

One of the many unfortunate things of growing up is that ,evenings lose their importance.Days seem to move seamlessly into nights nowadays.It's been a long time since I've seen a sunrise.It has been longer since i saw a sunset.Of course we in cities, even if we wanted to, can only see sun, about to set......Most of the times, you are in office,where the only sunset you are allowed to see is the one set as your desktop background.Even if it's a weekend,there are no evenings,there are only nights to hang out and the days to hang-over.
I remember how happy i used to be when swaabhiman on DD used to get over.It was EVENING....It was time to play.I liked summers,for the vacations of course,but also because sun allowed us few more minutes of clear vision.Long before i was taught trigonometry,i knew that the lengths of the shadows of the 3 sticks impersonating as stumps mattered.I always liked to keep a track as the shadows slanted,outgrew the crease then the pitch, till it finally became difficult to distinguish the stumps,leave alone their 2D counterparts on ground.The sun held meaning for us then.
Evenings in fact grew longer for me,before they finally disappeared.After the game,if it was time to rush back when i was 10, it was time for a casual stroll when i was 13 and time for a longer chat sitting on the cycle carriers when i was 16.It was somewhere here..between the cycle and the automobile that i lost the evenings.I guess i outgrew them,just like the slam books,the mysteriously shaped,smooth glossy pebbles, the WWF cards.....
But some wonderful memories will remain with me till the dusk of my life and beyond.

4 comments:

gothilla (Dunno) said...

beautifully phrased man...
you know what ! - today morning when i got up, i had the similar kind of feeling - like i am no more able to feel that charm of NEW DAY , fresh breeze, those cartoon shows, scoldings by Mom....of course, all our memories will be their with us till "our dusk and beyond"

sushruth said...

@gothilla(Dunno),
thanks.and ya cartoons..i know i'm a sucker for such nostalgic feelings but boy! they do make you feel warm inside.

Niki Nachappa said...

I wonder Sushruth if we had a choice in this, did we somehow choose to let go of tinkles and lollipops and cartoons and slambooks and WWF cards. Just that one fine day it suddenly dawns on me that all that is gone, so also the curiosity. I just long once to feel that kind of excitement and happiness again!

Sushruth said...

@Niki
when we were growing up we thought [v] and HBO were cool,later we thought it is hot.Finally we realise at best,it is lukewarm.