This Year. That Day.
Can you re-live days? Yes. Can you re-live emotions? Yes. Can you re-live relationships? Yes. But, do they move your heart the same way as then? NO. Is it important that you remember? I think, yes. You should never forget where you started from. Be it a good experience or learning. Re-visiting helps. In many different ways. I have had a history with this day. A decision that I executed on this day changed my life. I stepped out of my parent's home to start living on my own. I eloped with a guy with whom. This step got me away from my family till date. I still do not speak with them and am not married to that guy anymore. Probably I can say a new life started for me at 22. Till date, I do not regret the decision. Yet for many years, I was an emotional wreck on this day. I would cry the entire day. I wouldn’t get out of my bed. I wouldn’t eat well. The pain of a broken marriage pierced me more than leaving my parents’ house. The pertinent question haunted me – Why Me? By the end of t...