SOMETHINGS IN LIFE NEVER CHANGE - 3
It is often argued that there is nothing permanent in this world and that everything has to change with time.
This may be true in most cases but there are a few habits which do not follow the rule and are passed on from one generation to the next .
In my early school days the craving for the sugar coated candy or the jaggery rolled ball of puffed rice is still fresh in my mind, as was the slab of ice soaked in a sugary syrup . This used to be the Ice Cream of our generation.
With the small pocket money on hand it was always a challenge to find the resources to fund these small pleasures . The father of the house would always chide you for the excesses and almost always insist that all he had for school was the packed tiffin carrier that his mother gave him and nothing else for the break at school.
The meticulous care taken to iron the school uniform or the evening dress by neatly folding it and keeping it under the pillow and sleeping over it is still fresh in the mind . The father would always maintain that during his school days , the only thing that mattered were studies and studies alone and that nothing else mattered.
It has always been a elders pet subject to claim that they always scored almost a centum in all the subjects , the minor fact that the digit 0 was the prefix of the marks scored was just a minor aberration .
As one grew older from late school to early college days , going to the movies to see the likes of Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan or Dimple Kapadia or
Sharmila Tagore was all pervading .
This is not to discount the awe with which the item girl s
of the era like Padma Khanna or Helen or Mumtaź in their skin tight fitting attire were adored . Their outfit hardly left out anything for imagination . Hordes of youngsters would gatecrash to the theaters every Friday evening . The father of the house would always insist that he never fell to such base instincts and that the only time he went to the movies , was always with his own parents for company
This may be true in most cases but there are a few habits which do not follow the rule and are passed on from one generation to the next .
In my early school days the craving for the sugar coated candy or the jaggery rolled ball of puffed rice is still fresh in my mind, as was the slab of ice soaked in a sugary syrup . This used to be the Ice Cream of our generation.
With the small pocket money on hand it was always a challenge to find the resources to fund these small pleasures . The father of the house would always chide you for the excesses and almost always insist that all he had for school was the packed tiffin carrier that his mother gave him and nothing else for the break at school.
The meticulous care taken to iron the school uniform or the evening dress by neatly folding it and keeping it under the pillow and sleeping over it is still fresh in the mind . The father would always maintain that during his school days , the only thing that mattered were studies and studies alone and that nothing else mattered.
It has always been a elders pet subject to claim that they always scored almost a centum in all the subjects , the minor fact that the digit 0 was the prefix of the marks scored was just a minor aberration .
As one grew older from late school to early college days , going to the movies to see the likes of Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan or Dimple Kapadia or
Sharmila Tagore was all pervading .
This is not to discount the awe with which the item girl s
of the era like Padma Khanna or Helen or Mumtaź in their skin tight fitting attire were adored . Their outfit hardly left out anything for imagination . Hordes of youngsters would gatecrash to the theaters every Friday evening . The father of the house would always insist that he never fell to such base instincts and that the only time he went to the movies , was always with his own parents for company
and that too only for the Mythological or Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy Movies .
Now that i have grown older , with my son and daughter having their own children , i already see them voicing almost the same thoughts to their children and repeating what was said to me as a kid
Now that i have grown older , with my son and daughter having their own children , i already see them voicing almost the same thoughts to their children and repeating what was said to me as a kid
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IN ALL PROBABILITY WHAT I MYSELF WOULD HAVE TOLD MY CHILDREN KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY
THERE SURELY ARE SOMETHINGS IN LIFE WHICH NEVER CHANGE
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