Times that Spoke/Times that speak

সময়ের স্রোত ও জীবন প্রবাহ

The times left behind in the course of life breathe in the form of our memories; they may profoundly help develop and formulate our present, educate us, help us build notions and judgments, formulate philosophies, create experiences, and push us to understand and realize ‘life’ as a ‘continuing practice.’.

Various living/non-living entities and objects that were integral parts of our lives yesterday shift and often get redesigned circumstantially. The abandoned spaces of our lives, an old friend who gave time and taught us the meaning of friendship, the ancient house that saw us grow, a book that provided vitamins for life, an old song that drew the shape of our hearts, the dress we loved wearing so much, a food preparation by the mother, an incident that gifted us experience of a lifetime, the diary that recorded the lines of our soul, may turn out to be a few of many that cry out loud, not like vampires but like an ex-lover, and the blotted-out lines that are the anecdotes of our lives and times. They carry and contain our memories, reciting our life logs, and thus often turn into memory containers. They are the crucial elements and spaces behind the evolution of our beings.

Ayan Mukherjee