When my sister visited us last year, I thoroughly enjoyed it when my mother made her remove the unwanted books stored in her cupboard. It was so much fun seeing her take a look each book, clean it and keep it back. But I never thought the tables would turn around. And now that the tables have turned, I am not enjoying it one bit. I removed all the books I had stored in one section of my cupboard and imagine finding books that I used in 10th and 12th standard! Phew, that's a lot! Then there were these notebooks right from my first year of B.Sc. I mean I had everything. Sheets of paper on which i had written notes, graphs, experiments, log books, practical books, photocopies... you name it and I had it. I also found a book with my friends name on it. So I called up my friend and the first question I was asked was "Do you have Whitekar?" And while I was wondering which book Whitekar is and what its spelling is, I was kindly reminded that we used it to study fermentation. And yes, my friend struck gold there. I had it!
In short, I had preserved every antique piece of notes and books as if they meant a lot to me. At the end of the clearing exercise this was the amount of unwanted stuff that I gathered.
As I keep everything in the car so my mom can do away with it and keep a few books to donate to my college I cannot help but wonder about all the clutter in my closet. Have I accumulated clutter in my life too? Like this? I hope not.
"The bare necessities of life will come to you!"
Thankfully for me, my best friend is always around, telling me I need to clear it all - to my mother :-)
6 comments:
cleaning out the old and ringing in the new... its that time of the year for you... i have still kept them..hoping ill need them someday..they are like the last connection with the good old times,when i had no worries.
omg shil this all sounds so familiar!! Dad has been telling me to do the same....everytime i go to India; but i become just so emotional about all the notes. Its all my hard work!! and the time i am home is too less to go hunt for people whom i can hand over my notes to.
love the picture :)
Nice Article!
I am captivated by the impressive blend of nouns and verbs in the phrase - "Have I accumulate clutter in my life too?".
Your publishing name 'Sakshi' makes me wanna fall in love with it every time I read it...
Keep Publishing, Yeh Dil Maange More!
@ adhish - i understand when you say "the last connection with the good old times" but I still did it knowing a lot of it is etched in my head :-) layers and layers of it.
@ chai – if I remember correctly it was hard work writing those notes and even harder paying attention in class. Believe me, I had a lovely time just looking at some of the comments written in the margins of the books (you know what I mean!). But yes, I still did it. And I did it after copying each poem written in one of those last pages into my book. Tough job it was!
@ Denis - Thank you :-) Keep Visiting
The picture there explains it all dear!
but we all do collect such clutter in out lives-some we can revisit and be happy/nostalgic some we want to forget but 'NO'! it still remains there, waiting for a best friend to come and help us face that :)!
@ mavric - thanks for leaving a msg. visit again :-)
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