It’s that time of the
year again, when you cannot help but feel good. It’s neither too hot nor too
cold. Fall has almost come to an end and new leaves are already on their way.
All around, there are fresh happy colours of flowers, trees, fruits and what
not. In the daytime the sun is warm and bright while the evenings are cool and
breezy.
This time of the year always
reminds me of my childhood years with my little brother. As kids, I and my
brother would be beyond elation and excitement when spring set in. This was
that time of the year when we had tons of stuff to keep us busy. Gorging on
cornflakes, dancing to Scooby-Doo tunes, taking rounds on our sparkly purple
Hero Cadet (our beloved bicycle), playing gully cricket with the neighbourhood
boys, watching WWE, Pokémon, Aladdin and what not! Downing glasses of milk,
fighting over bigger omelettes or fluffier pillows, bickering over who cheated
and who actually won bouts of Carom or Chinese checkers!!
It’s actually sad that
as time is passing by sibling relationships are becoming more and more
impersonal. Talk about generation gaps, everything from technology to trends to
youth slangs is changing so fast that kids born even three years apart do not
feel the warmth of being siblings. I’ve seen friends that have certain professionalism
around their kid brothers and sister. They greet each other as if greeting a
minion in office. There is just the emotionless acknowledgement that goes like;
“Raj” (with a cursory head nod) and “Nikhil” (with a similar bob of the head). There’s
no friendly punch or a heart-warming bear hug or sly name-calling. I mean the
fun, warmth, love, possessive-ness, protective-ness, mock rivalry is somehow
lost!
There’s no sharing or
inside jokes to make memories and look back on when you are all grown up. I don’t
know what the world is coming to but all this seems very robotic. Maybe the
camaraderie is the sacrifice you make while you are trying to win the rat-race
and your own brother/sister is just another competitor.
The next generation
will never care about the joys of sipping on Pepsi cola or fighting over the
remote control of the TV or sharing school gossip. What a sad sad notion!!
The days of hide n
seek, scrabble and crazy fun playing outdoor games on summer holidays are really
over with the advent of Play stations, Tabs and Smartphones but man those were
the days!
LOVE J
Making faces and blackmailing on
secrets.
ADITI
