‘The stories we love the best live in us forever’ –J.K. Rowling

The other day, I met one of my school friends on Facebook. We both were looking for each other on Facebook and finally connected. She gave me her number and I called her immediately. The call lasted three hours!!!

We were once again school girls, giggling away to glory and reminiscing about the tree house we used to have our lunch on, our escapades to the back of school library where I would teach her to sing, (she still is tone deaf ha ha ha ), and our nicknaming each teacher. All the memories came flooding back and both of us felt so nostalgic.

Of course I promised that I would definitely meet her on my next visit to India. Why am I telling you all this? Because those happy memories are still in me. I can recall them at a nano second notice. Doesn’t it happen to all of us? The times we felt really happy are always the easiest to remember.

Am I dwelling in the past and trying to live in there? Not at all but what I am saying is that moments that make us ecstatic can always recreate the magic. The idea is to create more of these. These are memories that sustain us in our dark hours, they give us the hope and they help us to pick up our life again. My mum used to say, ‘if happy days didn’t last so won’t the unhappy ones’.

Notice how most of these memories are simple pleasures that we enjoyed? Making those sand castles, playing housie with dolls and taking a long flight on the swing. Or dating on a cup of tea, sitting in the park with our friends and singing on the road without giving a thought to what will people say. Life is made up of such small pleasures.

The need is to create more of these memories even now so that we can carry on with all the stress of adult life and maintain our sanity. Playing with our children in the park, teaching them to bike and simply enjoying a family night are the things that will stand by us.

So go ahead and make these memories.

So be it!!!