Category: Memories
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357/365 – I missed Blockbuster yesterday
Yesterday I was browsing Netflix. Then I switched to Amazon prime and then finally on to YouTube and then back to Netflix. I might have spent half an hour browsing and I missed this card. I took a picture a while back because I had a blockbuster card with me. I could not find it now.…
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298/365 Another Tooth Extracted and memories of an earlier one
As a kid I don’t remember going to a dentist. But I do have a faint memory of going to dentist who lived two houses behind us. Now I am not sure if I went there for me or my sister. But I remember another incident in 2004-2005 when I was here in the US.…
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273/365 Let us try a writing prompt
So today I want to write something from a writing prompt in our Penpositive Community. Here is the prompt“You are in a new city for a day. Your meeting got delayed and you missed the train. The next train is in 24 hours. Develop an incidental narration or story. (max 2000 words)” A new city…
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252/365 It rains and I feel I am going to my school
Even today when it rains on my way to the office… I feel like I am going to school….. I travel back in time…. And I have often wondered why that is so… Maybe rain has that power to bring back memories….. Maybe because I have not experienced the bad sides of downpouring except for…
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139/365 How reckless and foolish I was
Yesterday I was watching an Indian movie and in that a person in a running train walks up to the door and tries to open it. When asked she tells that she wanted some fresh air… She cannot open the door and so remains inside. As I was watching it…. I was thinking how dangerous…
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116/365 Any moments I want to relive
When I look back at life that has passed, I often wonder if there is any event or moment that I want to relive. I have never got an answer. There are places I surely don’t want to go back again.. but relive? I don’t know…. to be honest… The challenge while looking back… especially…
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96/365 Fear of Darkness
Growing up I was so afraid of darkness and being alone. It could have been the stories that I heard, movies I watched on TV or may be even what I read. We lived in a two story house and even going upstairs alone while people were in the house was kind of difficult. As…
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68/365 Getting Out of a Country
Today as I was driving my son to school, we were listening to the American Life Podcast that narrated the plight of an Afghan family trying to get out of the country. A heart wrenching story explained through the conversation of two people. Listening to that my mind went back more than 4 decades to…
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66/365 What excited me immediately after college
Yesterday I was thinking about all those things that excited me immediately after college. Just one of those weird trips I make into the past. And I was surprised with what I found. To be honest my excitement was that I was out of college. I lacked any sort of long term plans or perspectives.…
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65/365 My Battles with Smoking
They say just go cold turkey… In terms of smoking… just quit… don’t do a reducing the smoke…. just quit… if not possible take help… I have had my long struggles with the habit. I realized you can trick your brain and this is something a friend of mine told me. He said don’t think…
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