Folks signed the papers confirming the sale of our Bombay flat last week - and with those signatures another chapter in my life came to an end. The longest and most cheished chapter, since that flat is the only home I've ever known. It seems wierd to some of my friends that I attach so much importance to a flat I've moved out of over a year ago, but that is the place I've grown up to become who I am today. Almost all my cherished memories have it as the backdrop - and now I feel homeless. Sure we are looking out for a place in Pune and it's going to be a bigger place where I'll continue to have my own bedroom like I do here (something I"ve gotten accustomed to, and now consider a necessity)...but I'd do anything to turn back the clock and go back to that 2BHK flat with a terrace bigger than the flat... too late for that now.
Guess it's truly time to move on, eh?
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Its painful some times to move from the place where we grew up. Life keeps changing that the new would become the comfortable home than the past one.
I am really sorry Geetanjali. But I am sure you'll build many more fond memories in your poona home...
I believe every few years one should make a list of all the things that one thinks is his/her perspective or his/her goal and multiply it with a giant zero – doing so you should then think of and slowly orient yourself to diametrically opposite goals that for some reason you find distantly interesting. The end product being a total re-invention of the self you formally thought you where. Shedding an old skin and growing a new one.
May be selling your house in Bombay is a harbinger to the same – this strange metamorphoses.
Till then have fun house hunting – I’m sure there is a house for Miss Geetanjalli somewhere in Pune.
m sure u'll like ur new place in pune too (when u decide on one)...till then think " my own bedroom!!!"
;-)
loads of luck for the ghar-shopping!!
You can take the Bombayite out of Bombay. Can you take Bombay out of the Bombayite?
For some of us, it'll always be home....
Known Stranger - Welcome...yep that's true.
... , Kitana - Thanks! I'm sure I will, just indulging in self-pity for now :-/
Akshay - That is an interesting perspective! Thanks...and I hope the house gets finalised soon!
Lakesidey - Yep always home....
Aah! That's tough. I know exactly how you feel. Yet, you are one expressway away. Its a strange feeling to go back and see your home 6 months or so after you have sold it(from the outside of course). Mix of emotions.
I know exactly what you mean - I went through the same thing a couple of years ago. Bombay will never ever stop being home no matter where you go, but there will come a house in Poona though, where when you step in, the wind will change and it will be home too.
Big smile and hug your way, sweetie!
Thanks for your very kind comment!
I felt exactly the same while moving from Bombay to Singapore. At that time, i thought i would never ever have to leave my Bombay home. But i had to. And now, we're selling the house too, the one in which i grew up.
Yup babe, its time to move on. But the memories still remain with you. =)
i hate to move on. i was watching this movie called p.s. the other day, and the protagonist came up with a brilliant rant on 'why the whole world seems to be so hellbent to move on'. it's not about practicality. of course, reality takes its own course, and people 'move on'. but then do we really, ever?
and they lied in 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind', i can assure you.
Hmmm... for some reason, I've never been very attached to any house. Maybe coz we changed houses 3 times in 16 years... and then I moved to Spore. Just miss my home, never the house.
Hmm... difficult to cut thru the maze of memories and walk away untouched...
We carry these memories for as long as we can. And then, we make way for some new ones. :)
Take heart! :)) All'll be well.
wow u had a 2bhk with terrace......
heppy house -hunting.
p.s- how was ur first day at AFP?
Parth - Oh yeah, these ppl r planning to completely change the naksha of the house...and I'll always go back to that area to look up and have to stop myself frm thinking it's my house. Are they lucky to land a house like that...it's one in a million!
Extempore, Medha, Blue Athena - Thanks :-)
Casablanca - Yeah I have friends who've always been on the move while growing up, so they are really amazed at how we stayed rooted for so long! you're right ofcourse, "home" is more imp than the "house"...
Dead Guy - My pleasure...your stuff has me in splits every Monday!
Aparna - Yep I did...as I said it's one in a million house! Day 1 At AFP wasn't bad...still in training/observing so I won't be dealing with them kids by myself till Jan. Am however writing a skit for them for the Xmas party et al...kinda fun! :-)
WD - I've never had to "move on" before...suddenly there seems to be alot of it to be done! And like yous aid, I'm not sure it's possible to really move on...ah well I am trying!
Sorry to hear about it. Sometimes, a house becomes a home and it is hard to let go of. I know how you feel.
Ah I cant relate to this a lot cos I have changed close to 30 houses in 24 years. It's always been a home that I miss.
Freaky - as I was posting a comment here you wer doing the exact same thing on my blog.
weird!
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