Memories

In olden days we used recall and reflect on beautiful moments, and those memories are still keeps fresh.

College memories still seems so fresh, those memories are just like happened few months back.

But if we look at somethings that happened just a few months back which are also somethings special and worth remembering, I feel many times like totally forgotten and totally vague in the memory.

Today all of a sudden I realized this. When I was reluctant to keep the phone down and close my eyes to sleep, I was thinking "What is that wants me not to keep aside the phone?, what if I spent few mins in bed without getting sleep ? Why is it so hard ?"

To get an anchor to hold on to, I was looking several years backwards what I used thing before going to sleep. I went back to college days I used to just replay what happened the day and feel happy and special about it, it may not be the perfect thing to do it also made me feel more attached but the good part of it is that it helped to remember a lot of things even till now that happened in college days

Let me share few of them with you, from my college days, if it will be interesting to you. The day when my friend gave a pat on my back and I remember it so well. The day when we got a free hour and we went and spent in the playground and chatting and playing; when I was yarning and my friend was just teasing me and asking me to close my mouth while yarning in gentle way, when we miss our bus and were spending several minutes in bus stand talking with friends waiting for the bus. We used to go home in college bus and remember looking for our friends bus. Asking driver anna to play the latest songs from the cassette. Those scenes are still in my eyes.

While these memories are so fresh and in the mind the reason why our recent day things don’t stay in our memory is because may be we are not reflecting enough and valuing those moments.

Most of us, the time we go to sleep is when we have the thoughts and memories coming in our mind, we avoid it and we chose to watch YouTube, Reels on the phone. It happens with me a lot. I don't want to presume everyone suffering this in the same way. But my realization today was this. I think phone is not just taking our time from us, but a lot more than that. We need to examine what all are the things we are losing because of the smart phone usage. I am no exception still figuring out a smart way for the smart phone usage.