Tag: Nostalgia
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Seeing you again
seeing you again was such a delightalthough my initial reluctance to meet youwas colored by previous experienceswhere meeting old friendsfelt like resurrecting the deadwho were happier where they now belonged I did not expect much from our meetinglittle did I know great thingsoften begin without dramatic announcementsI knew from the chemistry in our first hug,chats,…
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Such is life
My people hardly traveled. Those who did were few. And everyone knew them. Because they were usually the multilinguals in the village who brought news, songs and tales of other lands to our uncultured, ignorant, naive ears. Back then many things were communal. My dad was building his first house. And many men in the…
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Gone with the wind
There are days nothing spectacular happen in our lives. Just routines. And yet one day we look back, and miss those ordinary times. Like I am looking back right now and seeing myself beside a tomato farm right behind our school wall. Almost everyday, while teaching in a classroom on the last floor, I stole…
Diary of a Wanderer 