They say that everybody learns from its past mistakes. People try to improve on those so that they dont fall prey same schemes again. We, as normal people, always try to learn for all of our pitfalls but one. It was expecting St. Valentine's miracles.
Flashback
Day 14th Feb, Year 2000 to 2005, Place - Chandigarh.
Most of the times,V-day used to come on working day or should I say studying day. Newspapers, TV, internet always used to remind us of it. Chd newsline used to come up with weird kind of surveys on love-meter with hearts or roses printed in paper back ground. everything used to be gripped in virtual fever. Atleast, in chandigarh, I always felt that it should be declared national (?) festival. There are only two festivals which can qualify for this. (Other one is Holi) Roadsides would be full of gladula vendors, heart shaped balloons (DCH style) and few of teady bear guys. One could see all kind of weird characters on road right from morning. If one group is one trolley, other would come out in truck. Open jeeps, gypseys, bikes without silencers. Everybody trying to impress fairer sex. One would be excused to imagine himself being in the middle of jungle where all the males are trying to show off their assets to impress the girls. It was darling-I am-working-over-time-today day for thullas. They also never missed a chance of playing devils in the cupid's day out. Gheri route always used to first casualty in curfew, other one used to be Punjab Univ. In the nutshell, whole city used to be seiged by lovers and spoilers alike.
Far away from all these colours, we use to spend our days in the balcony of SUSCET. Always trying to speculate which girl is going around with which guy. I must admit that although we were pretty in finding out smokey fires but could never figure out some real ones. After spending first half of the day in winter sun and lunch break in canteen, our harmones used to instigate us in going some where, in search of true love and our destination always used to be Lake. Oh boss, wat a place it was. Girls, girls, girls everywhere. Only problem were the villians sitting with them. Bloody spoilsports, jerks and wat not. After 1-2 hours, our heart used to refuse to pump blood. Too much burn can cause this situation and forced by heart, we used to come back home empty handed ;))) Another v-day gone. May be next time which never came.
Flashback over
Day: Any day of the feb before/on V-day, Place: London
There was no imperative excitement of the up-coming festival. No major news in TV, paper et all. No enthu for it. Such was the indifference here that I never remembered it and today, when the day came, my friend told me that it v-day today. I was surprised. Anyody wud be especially A person like me coming from chd or for that matter bnglr to a place which started it all. Life was normal. Trains, as usual, were full. Offices were working. Schools had kids. No body seemed to be bothered. Morning shock slowly transformed into pleasant evening. After hard day at work, I could see couples were kissing like normal on my way back to home. Nothing new. It is regular affair. No big deal. I went for shopping, did some cooking, now I am blogging and wud go to bed in another 15 min. Mundane end to mundane day. This time st. valentine moved on without giving any heart attacks to me . My dil goes zooooooom zooooooom.
Cheers,
Ashish
P.S. I cant really say that I didnt missed chd today but this change (or lack of it)
was definitely a refreshing.
1 comment:
hey ashish u wrote very well.impressed with ur writing skills.yes,time is a great factor.our thinking is also changd accordingly.do u remember the day wen u,manish and i guess probably it was chetan..u came to 3552 on V-day..and ur scooter was punctured..hahaha..wen i was reading the article,,i kept on remembering all those things related to this day..each year,wen i used 2 see gals going on dating with boys,with flowers and gifts..i also used to think kaash "hamein bhi koi chahne wala milta".but without havng any valentine we always enjoyd that day,coz we had wonderful friends.now time is changed..i hav my valentine with me.mujhe toh aisa lagta hai har din hi valentine's day hota hai wen u both r together.but certainly there must be some reasons why these days are specially made..may be in future we will understand..why we hav other festivals like diwali..just to remind ourselves that we have a family around us and we r together.similarly V-Day is made just to mak us specially feel abt our love.keep on sending other stories like this one..
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