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Why do we try to colour our past with the colours of our present day frustrations and grievances, or our gratitude.  Because I'm angry with you today, you have actually never done anything right by me! That's the attitude.  How can we separate our past events from our present,   no matter how much they allure!  So when it comes to history,  our culture, religion, and our society,  we don’t get all mixed up!  I'm trying really hard to get a handle on our past, which is so fluid already!  How can I say anything for sure!! Just accepting the present without thinking of the past is so very difficult of course!  Oh dear, let's just try at least to be more accepting,  forgetting somethings, remembering some, and let the present take its course! 

  A place that was home, that street that held my world! Neera   A place that was home, that home that was my world Is still somewhere as I left it!   I can still see that street of seven houses where my childhood is still clinging to each door, or hanging with my mother’s   washing soaking in the sun, and floating in the wind. That massi, that Raju’s daadi that noisy and nosey auntie Patialan with four kids sitting on the sill shelling peas and shouting comments, that I hear still!   I hear my friends playing in the street As I topple the seven shiny tiles with my rubber ball and running away madly and they chasing me all Calling "Pithoo pithoo pithoo", I can still hear and the sun is still setting and my mother’s still calling me home!   I can still feel the rush that I felt Can smell the almond fragrance that I smelt And strange desires like unknown neighbours, where met me at every nook and c...

Grasp the moment Grab the moment Live the moment  Live in the moment Yes everything is this moment!  It is the only thing still here, t the only time that we are in!  We 'are' in the present tense.  As the last or the previous moment is gone,  we were in that, but not anymore! It has finished! It is already past!  Living this moment, means being present in our 'now',  appreciating what we are doing, who we are with, and what we are experiencing.   It all takes a moment to be in the moment,  to live in the moment, to be mindful of what we have!  Then this moment will be gone too,  but we would have felt it, valued it, lived it!