Pictures tell a thousand words!!!!
A few days back I was going through all the photo albums inside my drawer. Right from my parents’ adolescence to my and my brother’s “child”-hood! From the black and white photographs to the colour photographs, all developed over camera reel!
A new sense of nostalgia always erupts with photographs! Every picture makes us revisit a place in our memories which was forgotten during the course of our life!
To add to the fun, watch it with all the people involved! Watch your family pictures with your family and rest assured, you will have a gala time!
When I ponder over my parents’ photographs… their marriage photographs… I always feel that my father is the best looking guy and my mother is nothing short of a film actress! It’s an absolute delight to watch your relatives’ years younger… The older generation now, looking beautiful, basking in their youthful glow then! And the mighty and bossy young fellows now, being pictured as meek and innocent creatures then!
When I look up to my or my brother’s childhood photographs… They always amaze me! How our every day, every month and every year as a child, has been trapped in these photographs! How we have changed and yet not changed! Our childhood activities (like Dance, fancy dress shows etc.), our birthdays, our first festivals, every photograph a testimony of all the times gone! It startles me how supremely cute everyone looks as a child! Just flawless! Something which can never appear hereafter!
Then there are albums of various trips to various places that we embarked upon…. Right from Delhi-Chandigarh-Manali-Shimla in the north to Mysore-Munnar- Kanyakumari in the south; every journey made immortal…… There are many other cities that my photographs serve as evidence of my visit! Every album reminds me of the places I explored, the hilarious incidents that happened, and very importantly… of the people involved!!!
I also possess some school time photographs…. Of the secondary level picnics wherein I enjoyed with friends, the 10th STD trip to Saputara and also the farewell party at school! Every photograph makes me revive my 12 yrs in school, my friends, my teachers, my achievements, humorous incidents…. Oh, a LOT!!
Thereafter, digital photographs and built-in camera phones came in and the number of photographs taken only increased…
Sometimes I juggle through pictures of my rendezvous with friends, tiny expeditions with them, birthdays celebrated together, all exhibiting the cherished moments I spent with them!!
I occasionally go through all the pictures that were clicked in the recent years with my degree college friends at many hang-outs, at parties, at celebrations, at birthdays, at fests…. They are so many… yet all so special!!!
Every photograph has a story behind it! A reason for it! It makes all of us go in flashback mode and recollect how it was taken, when it was taken, why it was taken, etc! It reminds you how people change, how you change and how feelings change!
Albums become a thesis to our evolution over the years…. From the cradle to the podium! The various poses in which we were caught to the various poses in which we are caught…. It explains a lot! Personally I’m not much of a fan of being photographed…. I disliked it then and so appeared grumpy and still sometimes dislike it…. But I can’t deny that I love going back memory lane viewing those!
Try it guys!! If you haven’t gone through it in a long time, search for those, sweep the dirt away and scan through each album once! Scrutinize every picture with the people around you and re-live all those memories!! You would not regret it!
And, lastly, to repeat my good friend’s words (he will recognize it surely), Take pictures (my input: not in excess like him), pose heartily…. It’s only later you will realize how important it is to you!
