Today in this world of emails and blogs and smses, in short,of fast and easy communications , I can not but remember the postman who was a common and popular figure in my childhood days.
The postman had, in the busy parts of the city, 3 rounds per day. He was a household figure, was witness to the happy and sad events of a family. He knew in which house a wedding was to take place and so was partcularly prompt in giving the letters there. And of course he was invited for the wedding.
The birth of a child was another joyous occasion.
He was also given Bhakshish for the various events that happened in all families.
I remember my father, waiting literally in the middle of the road, for the postman to bring my brother's letters, when he went out of our small town on getting his first job. And our postman also knew that the boy who he had seen grown up from a lad to an educated young man, had now gone out in to the big world out there.
Each are had 2 or 3 postmen and we were familiar with ours.
Another communications means was the telegram. Somehow a telegram had all our stomachs churning. We sensed and feared it was some bad news of death ...
Unless of course there was a wedding or a housewarming or some such function so that we guessed the telegrams were best wishes ones and there was no anxiety or fear.
Speaking of telegrams, who can indeed forget the telegram scenes in that most and ever popular film "Sound of Music"!
Gone are those days.
Today it is the click of the mouse on the computoror the flitting of the fingers on the mobile and instant messaging.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Is rhe past always golden
Hi
I always wonder why we tend to think or reminiscence about the past as always 'golden' 'good old days', 'rosy past,' . whenever we speak to some one also it is always that we , except for negative folks, we picture whatever happened in the past as always, something happy, or pleasant.
Our mind blocks the bad things. our human nature strives for a happier frame. Maybe that is the reason. Man and for that matter woman also, we, are innately, beings woring towards happiness.
And the search for happiness and the hope that is the verey essence of our fabric make our lives and the daily grid of living endurable.
Each day as we get up, we are looking forward to a good day, and it is up tp us to avoid being downcast when the day closes and we had a lot of disappoinments etc.
And even if , when at the end of a bad day we are upset, the next dawn finds us filled with asn expectation of a better day.
And as time rolls by,the dad events of our lives are becoming more and nore blurred and the pAST is golden.
Isn't this oneof Nature's wonders?
I always wonder why we tend to think or reminiscence about the past as always 'golden' 'good old days', 'rosy past,' . whenever we speak to some one also it is always that we , except for negative folks, we picture whatever happened in the past as always, something happy, or pleasant.
Our mind blocks the bad things. our human nature strives for a happier frame. Maybe that is the reason. Man and for that matter woman also, we, are innately, beings woring towards happiness.
And the search for happiness and the hope that is the verey essence of our fabric make our lives and the daily grid of living endurable.
Each day as we get up, we are looking forward to a good day, and it is up tp us to avoid being downcast when the day closes and we had a lot of disappoinments etc.
And even if , when at the end of a bad day we are upset, the next dawn finds us filled with asn expectation of a better day.
And as time rolls by,the dad events of our lives are becoming more and nore blurred and the pAST is golden.
Isn't this oneof Nature's wonders?
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