Special Diwali

Diwali,most celebrated festival in many parts of India, is yet another regular day living in the U.S. Not that im a hardcore festive person,or had great diwali moments in the past, still i missed being in India, i love lighting up the house with diya's, watching the sparkles and glittering crackers in the sky and ofcourse our full time cine shows in the T.V, back here we are locked up in the 4walls with all heavy clothes to stand the winter. When you are away from home and u know u cant be part of all this, make u feel to miss it more...the least i could was walk down the memory lane...

When we were growing up, my parents never really encouraged spending much on crackers,mom felt we can give that money to some poor people, so they use to buy a very few, and the boy in my next door use to start bursting crackers 1month before itself, we just use to watch and envy... i remember we had even cried and asked for more, it never used to work,,,they were pretty stern on that,i still remember it was my 5th std diwali night, whatever we had got over by evening itself, and i wanted more, and they didnt buy and i was sitting in the entrance steps and crying till 10pm, and finally they had to drag me in...it seems very funny to think back those moments,i think life is always filled with such incidents, which would be so important one time will be most pettier later, yet that nature will remain us till we live...strange...anyway the next year,to my surprise and disbelief, we bought crackers for Rs.350, ( Thanks to one of my thatha's), he fought for us,and finally my parents gave in and sadly he passed away before next diwali and we were back to usual routine of watching our neighbor blast and slowly we accepted thats how it is. So many diwali's have passed by, i can walk to a store and pretty much buy howmuch ever i want, yet i have never really indulged myself, not sure why ?maybe there is no thrill when its easily available, or i never wanted to forget the thatha who could understand our small innocent wish and fullfilled for us,,,it's the greatest diwali i had and will ever have.

Happy Diwali to all my friends...