Moving
Moving has it's own up-side. Although sorting out all the junk you tend to collect is painful and time-consuming, the sorting that you do sometimes brings up some unexpected treasures - things, or memories of things you have forgotten.
So I have discovered a few treasures while clearing the tables and racks last few days - bills, trekking maps, pre-historic to-do lists(some items still pending), train routes, recipes, carefully planned menu of some lunch or dinner, pictures, test papers, assignments(I never submitted), and many other little things.
What this blog is about is a few lines I found scribbled in an old notebook I used to practice Kanji's in. That was long back ofcourse, when I had just joined language school. I am amazed at all the practice I did...
Anyway, here are those beautiful lines...
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields
called the Old South...
Here in this pretty world Gallantry took it's
last bow...
Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and
their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave...
Look for it only in books, for it is no more than
a dream remembered.
A Civilization gone with the wind...
And for a while I was transported into that pretty old world of Knights and Fair Ladies...what a movie!! A true classic.
Moving, I suppose, is also an interesting experience. :)
So I have discovered a few treasures while clearing the tables and racks last few days - bills, trekking maps, pre-historic to-do lists(some items still pending), train routes, recipes, carefully planned menu of some lunch or dinner, pictures, test papers, assignments(I never submitted), and many other little things.
What this blog is about is a few lines I found scribbled in an old notebook I used to practice Kanji's in. That was long back ofcourse, when I had just joined language school. I am amazed at all the practice I did...
Anyway, here are those beautiful lines...
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields
called the Old South...
Here in this pretty world Gallantry took it's
last bow...
Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and
their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave...
Look for it only in books, for it is no more than
a dream remembered.
A Civilization gone with the wind...
And for a while I was transported into that pretty old world of Knights and Fair Ladies...what a movie!! A true classic.
Moving, I suppose, is also an interesting experience. :)
posted by Pallavi at 9:56 PM
6 Comments:
Not everything was right in the days gone by. I mean, we were a British colony then, right. But there was a simplicity to life back then which is missing in today's fast-paced, consumeristic, technology-driven & increasingly collapsing world. Sometimes I long for the world gone with the wind - yeah, there were many ills back then; but aren't there as many now?
There are many more ills now than there were back then...
wow.... it sure was a 'moving' account! :)
read on more... esp liked the account on 'Pluto' the car, First Memories, and the Visitors on the Terrace :)
Even tried thinking what I wanted to be, when I was young, but then gave up after too many pictures flitted into mind.. :)
Will keep my eye on this space, for new posts!
keep blogging... :)
just thinking along...
we always wistfully remember the days gone by ... for their simplicity, their leisurely pace and general din, the dependence and harmony with things green ....
but the future and present always seem to be worsening ...
is it because, we have already dealt with our past, but we are grappling with the present, and know nothing about the future?
I can identify with this; I've found similar "treasures" so many times!!
Moving is something that all of us should be comfortable with by now! Even though one is (and should be!) excited about the "newness" of everything, its still hard to leave things behind, so many memories.
I think the worst feeling (for me)is that I find myself wondering - can the good times we had with people in old place be ever recreated in the new ones?
I guess time will tell.
Keep writing!
Moving is ... and has always been - around the corner - waiting to pounce upon you and inflict pain - or if you look at it the other way then - waiting to shower you with fond memories - I prefer the latter and that is not to say that I enjoy moving - but hey!
that was very nice poetry ... altho something in me always desists the old English ways ... yes it is pretty - but slavery and stiff-upper-lips always comes to mind and that turns me off ... dunno why!
-Venky
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