May 30, 2010, 11:00 pm, Dhaka
Sitting here, in front of my laptop, I just can't find a suitable topic to write about! Nothing to be surprised about, such things usually happen to me...first, the uncertainty as to how to start and then the major problem of figuring out how to end it!
Anyways, my wandering mind just happened on some memories...memories of days gone by years ago. At times, it seems like not just one but several lifetimes have passed since I left the Middle East. It's been exactly 12 years since I first arrived in this country, a land which my folks called 'home' and one which I still have problems relating to :-( However, the whys and hows of my predicament of feeling like a stranger in my parents' homeland is sth I might talk about in some other post, some other time.
Moving on to the lives that I seem to have left behind...well, first in line comes my childhood, spent in Naif Road. I can still smell the fragrance of fresh pastries ..aaahhhh...no prizes for guessing, but there was a pastry shop right next door :-D And how can I forget the uncle in the furniture shop downstairs, who used to treat me like his own kid. Have a lot of fond memories of the times spent with him...I still remember how much I used to feel irritated if someone addressed me as TUM / तुम, and so he used to always talk to me in English :-P Was such a snob...and maybe still am :-D at least that's what people 'not-so-close' to me usually have to say :-P Well, life back in those days consisted of going to school early in the morning, attending classes taught by fabulous teachers, coming back home, watching cartoons on chanel 33..my fav were Rainbow Brite and Care Bears :-D ... doing homework, being fed by mom and so on...
Then came the pre-teens and teens...and I think i was an absolute jerk during those years! Instead of enjoying life and appreciating all the good things that God has bestowed on me...I spent all those great years of my life aspiring to be what I never was and never could be! I went on crash diets, binge-eating sprees, tried to learn make-up (which is SOOOO not my cup of tea), ignored some really good friends and started hanging around with people with whom I had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common! Got into some really shady activities/past-times(!!!) and well just made a COMPLETE MESS of a lot of things. However, as they say TRUE FRIENDS are always there for you, and I did have the good sense to forge some friendships that are going strong till date :-D
After appearing for the class XII exams, we (my folks mainly, I had no say) decided to move over to Bangladesh...their own country and the golden land aka Sonar Bangla ... but my heart, soul and a part of me stayed back there...living through my friends, and only recently through Facebook was I able to get reacquainted with those buddies of mine :-D And thus opened the floodgates of memories...however, this post does absolutely no justice to all the good times that I had, spent sharing and caring with my dear friends, instead it loses this very essence in its attempt to be factual!!!
Oh well...life goes on..and so its is for me too :-D Slumber time for me...shabba khair, shubh ratri and GOD BLESS!
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