Nostalgia

I’m not a big one for posting personal pictures online but some photographs are just too wonderful to be kept too personal. Especially if they are similar photos of the same people shot couple of decades apart.

I was lucky enough to meet some old friends from college recently - A reunion of sorts. Keeping with the tradition of modern reunions, we too decided to click some photographs. Maybe we don’t trust our memories any more or maybe nostalgia is not just something that exists in the mind and touches your heart anymore. No reunion is complete without those lovely pictures of friends showing how happy they are to meet each other. A picture is not just for keeps, but a great way to let the other friends know that 'we had all the fun', while they didn’t. After all, what are true friends and their lovely reunion pictures for?

Looking at these pictures it is obvious that we felt closer than before. With our ever growing frames and bulging tummies, we certainly did feel closer posing for the photo - Hardly any gaps between us. What’s more, the photos also gave us a feeling that we were a lot fitter – how else do you think we fit the entire picture frame. Maybe we should start throwing our weights around a bit - If you know what I mean.

20+ years might have given us a truck load of varied experiences, added few layers of grey added little more than 150+ kgs on us. Some of us even looked wiser. But what fascinated me was the fact, we were just as immature as we were back then. Those silly jokes sounded funny even today. We still felt proud about those childish pranks. All those anecdotes about the embarrassing moments (we had more than plenty to choose from) still made us laugh. Photographs or not, Facebook uploads or not, there is nothing like nostalgia that makes the heart smile.

Smile we did, a lot that day, not just for the photographs that you see on FB but with all our heart that only we could feel.