I think ...
Past relationships are like rats in your house. There's a time when they ruin everything around you and leave your entire world in shambles and tatters. You leave traps, bring in others to chase it out, find new pets - all in vain. Finally, you get busy with other things in your life, spend lesser and lesser time at home and convince yourself that you have got rid of them and they are not part of your lives anymore.
And one of these days, you wake up in the wrong side of the bed and decide to dust off a corner that's not visited too often. And between a old movie ticket and a birthday gift, you find it staring back at you. You try to shut it out of your mind, wish you had never seen it again so that you could bask in the bliss of ignorance. But the worst thing about experience is it can never be unlearnt.
You go through the same cycle all over again hoping sometime, like everything else, you learn to live with rats too (... and they with you!)
Dedicated to my 2-rupee-tea shop owner who was chasing a rodent with his broom held high - a true warrior, I must admit!
And one of these days, you wake up in the wrong side of the bed and decide to dust off a corner that's not visited too often. And between a old movie ticket and a birthday gift, you find it staring back at you. You try to shut it out of your mind, wish you had never seen it again so that you could bask in the bliss of ignorance. But the worst thing about experience is it can never be unlearnt.
You go through the same cycle all over again hoping sometime, like everything else, you learn to live with rats too (... and they with you!)
Dedicated to my 2-rupee-tea shop owner who was chasing a rodent with his broom held high - a true warrior, I must admit!
posted by Rathish at 9:20 AM
8 Comments:
...in the second lost between seeing the ticket and picking it up, a thousand memories cruise down...and yes it cant be unlearnt, hidden, lost or forgotten...it can only exist for as long as the mind is alive...with you, within you but never without you.
Amen.
and do experiences like these make one feel really really WARM in the middle of the chest? does it happen to everyone...? Just wondering...:))
Nice blog. Keep it up
Same issue with me. I now do this: get rid of the very thing that brings back unpleasant memories that overwhelm me (recently tore a photograph and threw it away). But, you are right, something is always hiding in a corner of our dusty havens that brings us to a stand-still for a moment and forces us to take notice of it and there is nothing we can do about it...
I speak of high morales
...but I was vulnerable
@Anon1: beautifully said :)
@Acoustic dreamer: firstly, Thanks :) I am not sure if the feeling is exactly "warm". but it's there right in the middle of the chest :)
@RS: ... the only hope is that as everything else in life, they frequent us lesser and lesser with time.
@Anon2:
lovely lines. quite true.
but, seriously, who are you? :)
well said "rat"(talk abt chance...i have been tryin to get rid of u for ages now..hehe)...the only thing i can think of right now is the movie "ek hasina thi" where urmila chains saif in a cave where no one can find him...only him and some very crazy rats to give him company in that cave...kinda ties in well with your idea...wat say?? oops..if u havnt watched the movie yet...i just spoiled it for you!!
@Santhosh - :)) you fellow! I am sure you can never get rid of me man! Saw that movie 4 days after it released. good old days in france - video piracy jindabad! ;)
its good to see 'Rat' talking abt "Rats"...
"Past is the Experience to use for the Present Scenario to cement our Future"----- i dunno who said this... i am telling this now.
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