Holidays after exams have always been cleaning time for me. Yes, I like being organized with all my stuff (Note: That doesn't include the times I'm busy with lots of work :-P). Yes, it is boring and more boring when you're doing it all alone! Huh? The title reads 'Nostalgia' and what is this that I'm talking about? Well, there is a link just be a little patient!
The best part of cleaning is the memories that get refreshed when you find something from your past! (Apart from the ultimate benefit that you've a cleaner and better organized place in the end...!). Cleaning time has been a trip to the past for me and most of the time I end up spending more time remembering those old memories rather than actually cleaning my stuff! Think about the times you find some little chits in your pockets.. bills, little tidbits that make you remember of the times you spent with your friends!
Childhood memories are always the best! Finding an old notebook of yours and admiring your own handwriting , finding a few toys when your going through stuff ( Yes, it's hard to come by those but sometimes, just sometimes there is a probability you'll find stuff like that) ! You get the drift! And there are your sticker collections or your pokemon cards (Yeah,I still have a few!) or some sort of collection of yours that takes you back in time and think how you were back then. Or finding old clothes of yours when you were little, making you remember the little you!(I still have a bow from my favorite frock when I was 5).
Among my collection of stuff, the collection that stands out is my magazine collection! Loads and loads of them! I end up reading them again! Another one of my favourites are the newspaper cuttings! I never had access to the internet connection back when I was in school and so the source of information for my projects were those newspaper cuttings! And how I treasured them and I still treasure them!And that also includes those cuttings with my name or picture in the newspaper or the ones with my poems and drawings in them! And then there is always that trivia we collect without actually knowing why we collected it and wondering why we ever did!
And then come your trophies or prizes! Cleaning them up always makes me remember the time I won that and makes me proud of myself again! And the ultimate bag of memories are those old photographs of yours! A story associated with each picture! Thinking of the good old times always tends to bring a smile back on your face! Those slam books with words from your friends from the last year a school! Reading it brings all those people back to your memory again! Or even scrapbooks for that matter! And for those of you write diaries, reading an old diary is so much fun!
Yes, people tell leave the past and live in the present, but sometimes a trip down the memory lane always brings a smile on your face, bringing alive those moments from your past life which you wish to remember always! Sometimes though life challenges you with the greatest difficulties, for which you may find answers in your past! And sometimes those memories will be all that is left of that person!
Well, I think I've made you take the journey down your memory lane! I can see that smile on your face there! Keep smiling!
