A trip down the memory lane!

I spent this weekend at my mother’s place. While I am there, my mother always asks me to go through all the memorabilia that still resides in my old cupboard and discard unnecessary stuff. I like doing it because it always proves to be a wonderful trip down the memory lane. While clearing out old greeting cards, I came across a bundle of letters. It took me an entire afternoon to go through all the letters by my friends and cousins. Writing letters was a passion when we were in school and it was the most preferred mode of communication to keep our conversations away from the parents’ prying eyes.


Back then, we didn’t have access to emails or cell phones. The land line was mostly used for urgent communications and under parental supervision. So it wasn’t really a lucrative mode of communication. What do you do then when your friends and cousins are in different town and you wish to keep in touch? Write letters….of course.

Writing letters was one of the most joyful experiences of my adolescence. We wrote letters with a passion. We wrote regularly every week and we knew that the recipient will write back immediately. It took around 4 days for the letters to reach and another 4 days for the reply to come back. Waiting for the postman was a regular and integral part of my growing up. I knew when the postman would arrive and I made sure I was home by that time.

What did we write? Well, every little thing that happened in our lives. Tiffs with parents, our insecurities and our daily routines. We shared all our feelings and we were open about our emotions. We didn’t mind telling friends who were studying in other cities how much we missed them. We shared our daily routine, adventures, advice and even heartbreaks. There was a lot of simplicity in our lives then and a lot of time to think and reach out to others.

I am going to keep all these letters and maybe I will use that as an excuse to gather all the old friends around! We will have a good time refreshing old memories! :)

A perfect day to muse upon!

It is a beautiful day today. Like one of the early summer days. A clear sky, pleasant sunshine and happy faces running around the roads to reach work on time. The winter is passing and the new sun and the new season is all set to warm our thoughts and hearts! What a lovely day to begin something new! A lovely day to be outdoors, to go wandering without a destination in mind, to be poetic and to woolgather. Days like today make me think of all those summer holidays that I have spent doing absolutely nothing and love every minute of it. Nostalgia hits me every now and then and then I wish to do things that I could I have done when I was young (not that I am old!)
I absolutely love to read and I absolutely love to embroider. These are the two hobbies that I cannot do without and I make sure to spend some time by myself every week doing just that. I created this blog to make it easy for me to follow all those wonderful blogs by people who embroider and quilt and create such beautiful pieces. I hope to do as much some day. So now whenever a beautiful day dawns, I will read and embroider to my heart’s content. Maybe make something interesting for my daughter who is yet too young to appreciate all this. I remember growing up with my mom stitching away something or the other constantly so I would love to see my daughter growing up with the same kind of memories that put a smile on my face even on a dull day!