Names, people, situations Forgotten or Forgiven????

Just like everybody, who is in their late 20's, i had a lovely childhood. I lived in a joint family, with my father's parents and siblings. Every Christmas, New-year, Easter week, is still refreshing. The festive mood and the number of people at home, though everyone liked it or not, was really a great time for we, children.

The preparations, be it cleaning or cooking, shopping or outing, it was wonderful. The World seemed more colourful, than it is now. Sinless life, with innocence, must have added colours, i believe. I still love the same T.nagar in early 1990's than it is now... don't know why, remembering the instructions from my aunts' "Watch out for stuff on roads - do not let your mind wander on things displayed"

My Grand Parents, both of them doesn't exist... For that matter, all four of them doesn't. Infact, Now, after getting married, i do have another four grand parents, but, even they don't exist.

Two years, after my grand mom's death, we all had her photographs in our houses - i mean my dad's house, my aunt's house.To be very frank, her face, should probably be the face i would have seen most of my early stages of life. Now after 14 years, her face seem to be vanishing from my mind, definitely not the thoughts. My grand pa, died recently after i got married, still everything is the same, except for that matter, now i live with my husband.

I understand, it is definitely not a condition to be pitied, for the nuclear families we have now, as everybody desires to have one and live their life to the fullest. But to my children, they will know their parents, their traits, characters, they will know their grand parents too. But how about their great grand parents??? May be i would try and make sure that i let them know who their great grand parents are, what their names are and where they lived.

But beyond that, i may not be able to tell them. For that matter, they would know more about "Akbar the Great", "Hitler" and "Gandhiji - Father of our Nation". Also more about " Rajnikanth - the Superstar" and "Kamal Hasan - The Great Actor"

All i realize, all of us existing now would be forgotten, by the next coming
4 - 5 th generations, just as how employees who are fired,are just not remembered by a time period of 5 years.

Some traits might be remembered, but the person, who had that trait might be forgotten. Good, even if we could bring such a trait/ character/ any good thing to this world. I believe that would be worth living a life here in this world. May be that could rightly be the purpose for your /(our) creation.

I always have a habit of remembering people of my past, be they exist or not - pray for them or their souls and feel that it is to be forgiven whenever, you(I am) are forgotten, that it is nothing new, that people does including me and you, who reads this.