It's Festive Time!!

I wake up to a bright new morning, rather early indeed, to the sounds of the door opening and closing. People are shouting inside the house, wishing each other joy, and I'm just sitting there, cuddled inside my blanket, mourning over the irritating commotion outside my room. And then I realise- 'It's festive time!!!'
My brother comes and kisses me, pulling me out of bed. My mother shouts out to me-"Harini, wake up!!" And as for my mind, it keeps saying- "Wake up, but don't wake up."

All this laziness is a usual thing. But the festive mood is what does the trick. Lazily getting out of the bed, I realise how dumb I was to have wasted those fifteen minutes in my bed. There are relatives all around the house! So what does that mean? Yo baby, it's fun time!!
I rush into my bathroom, get ready, and put on my new dress. All ladies are busy dressing up. My sisters are busy admiring their mehndis, and all the mothers are feasting their eyes on the beautiful jewellery everyone's wearing. All the men are busy watching the special movies on TV, and then everyone sees me. "So the kumbhkaran is finally awake!!"- they shout out with joy, for the laziest person in the family has awoken.
Then we get out of the house. We start roaming around the streets, laughing and shouting like psychos. Our mouths relish the taste of spicy Indian chaats, and the mens' pockets are emptied by the demands of the women. There's joy everywhere, even the least visited places are filled. Roads are jammed, loudspeakers fill the air. Streets are colourful, lights are bright. But listen, this is not all I have to cite!!
Indian bazaars are flooded, it's profit-time for the merchants. Every corner of the street has become home to jewellery, spices, games and stalls. Schools are on a holiday, offices too. People hold on to the hands of their children tight, it's not difficult to lose their beloved's sight!!
Hours in the streets pass by, it's evening now. We think, 'Let's go home now.' So yea, getting into the car, we prepare ourselves for the beautiful lights we'd observe in a little while. Great expectations rush through the minds of us children- There's gonna be an amazing feast after going home!!
Cuz' moments like these don't come often, you know??

It's So Awkward!!!

Have you ever experienced the feeling of talking to someone after like hell lot of time? And by talking, I don't mean the new and modern 'texting', I rather mean face to face, using this natural gift called the 'mouth'. It does feel strange. Very strange indeed.

I, personally, have experienced this 'awkwardness'. I shifted- in the recent past- to a place rather far from where I used to live earlier. It meant that I'd had to go to a new school, meet new people, and.. yea, lead a new and different life. But what I did not expect was something rather astonishing. Believe me when I say that to this day, I can not believe this has happened to me. The friends with whom I used to spend hours on the phone with seem like 'strangers'. Well, we still are on friendly, actually, 'best friendly' terms; nothing has changed. But what makes me feel strange is the fact that we have completely forgotten how to speak on the phone. We chat for hours on FaceBook and stuff, but it seems s hard to spend even five minutes on the phone or on Skype.
Don't you find this strange? I mean, technology has become a necessity rather than a luxury. Sir Albert Einstein feared 'The day when technology would surpass human interaction'. The bitter truth is, that is the world we live in today! Forget manners and other acts of civility- we've completely forgotten how to talk! And that is so depressing.
Lemme keep this short. Just talk- because that is what is widening the gap between people. And that is gonna become the root cause to what will later become the headlines of every day in our diaries of life- "NO ONE''S TALKING TO ME!!"