Nostalgia Hits Hard When You Recall Memories

Do you ever get a feeling of missing a place you once lived in, you try to close your eyes and feel how you felt there, try and remember the sounds that you got accustomed to?

I often do that, am just sitting on a typical Monday afternoon going about the motions of the day, and I stop to recall how a Monday was in a place I recently left.

I swipe through my phone gallery hoping to come across some photos of that I would often take of my day, my tea mug, the novel I am reading, and my sneakers against the flowerbeds on the ground floor where I would walk.

I recently shifted back from Ahmedabad to my hometown and it was so fast and so chaotic, too, that I didn’t stop to just say bye.

I understand you can’t say anything to any city, but there is a version of you that stays back there. For me, the two years spent there were almost like a rollercoaster, with so many ups and so many downs.

I remember getting on a flight and going off to live in a different city as a very different person, and I came back as a different person.

There is so much to learn from new experiences

There is so much you learn, I learnt immense personal skills at home, and there were so many new responsibilities I experienced, I started to enjoy my own company and that made it more wholesome to spend time with my husband, I found myself.

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I always thought that whenever I move away, I might go live in a very fast-paced and progressive city that has immense opportunities.

I didn’t expect to truly love my time in Ahmedabad, I feel like I grew up there in a different sense. Some tough chapters and some nice and good chapters.

It’s important to reflect and take a pause

And oh the laughter, I still roll on the floor laughing at our first Diwali Puja at home, I attempted to do the aarti and read the puja mantra all wrong.

Just so many good things, how you become so invested in a place because you subconsciously invest a part of yourself.

I feel that it was a good way to not get time to process the shift because I feel I have not left, I have all the lessons and good memories in me and that’s a permanent keepsake.

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