Life As I Know It

Emo mood was a bit active since yesterday. I don't know what time exactly it started but I ended up the day missing and longing for special people in my life. I spontaneously wrote in my Facebook status how I miss writing old school letters and handing (or mailing) them to my friends and family. I did post a sentimental message to my oldest best friend, Rolla, telling her how I miss the younger us. I was more active in sending comments and likes to my friends' page.

Yes, I miss writing on those sweet smelling and carefully designed stationery papers. I miss tucing in my fingers those glitter pens. I miss the idea of giving utmost importance to what you write for the fear of constructing a poor grammar or an incorrect spelling. And how can I forget that strategy of putting a yellow pad beneath the paper so as to have an invisible line to guide you in achieving aligned words. It takes longer than striking the keyboards but it is definitely more fulfilling, and more importantly, more personal.

Time seems to be slipping in our hands so fast. I am missing the younger me, the more carefree and less complicated me, the olden times with friends and family. But... I know it. Life's bicycle is gearing its wheel forward. You can just look back at the traces of marks left by the bicycle but you cannot get back and ride in exactly the same manner, in exactly the same space. And as a mere rider of that bicycle, you need to keep up with the pace. You can temporarily slow down, take a quick pause, but you need to keep going forward.

The good thing about it is that, people from our past are also riding the bicycle of life. They sure long for those happy old days, but like us, they can't go back to the sands of yesterday. We all move forward - maybe not on the same road that we used to explore together but somewhere in parallel they are there... from a distance. And thinking that one day, maybe one day, you will reunite with them and share the same outrageous laugh is one exciting reason to keep pace with life!

And by this, we need to keep the rope tied on our hand and the the other end on theirs. The rope might be getting longer and longer each day because of the distance, and thus, we need to give it an extra care. How? For me simple things would do. Let's get back to the basic. Keep in touch with them in an old school way. :)