Memories

A freak scrap from a long lost friend stirred something in me and brought back a flurry of memories.It also brought pangs of loss.I read a friend's blog and she mentioned about memories fading,but do they really?Do we ever really move away? Forget-And Forgive?For me the memories are so vivid,memories of a lost love,memories of lost friendships,memories of all the places i visited,of every laugh i laughed and every tear i shed.Memories of Shimla and the idyllic childhood,Mhow with its joy of adolescence,Kota and the angst n pain of teenage,Bagalkot-of a lost love and Kolkata the nearest i got to what i'll call the good life.
Each one of us has certain memories associated with a place,a person or a object.A song on the road, a choclate cake,a visit to a mall.
In the end its these memories which defines us and shapes our outlook.They appear as a smile on our lips or a tear in our eyes.They are all about contentment,yearning,pain and a search-for answers,and sometimes questions,of hope courage and strength. They are about the long strolls,hand in hand or the first kiss,memories of the first fight.Its about the first date,the first gift.Memories are the endless phone conversations with ur loved one.Memories are the first achievement u felt proud of -and the subsequent ones,they are the failures and how u emerged stronger with each experience.Memories of your first goof-up,memories of ur stage fright.Memories for me are about friends
While i sit and look out at the rain outside and think about the memories from my earliest recollection it seems im seeing a kaleidoscope of my life pass by and i think-Do memories really fade away?