My Diwali memories!!

 I was around 4 to 5 years old and we were in Paradeep. My father bought some crackers. I was curious to see those crackers and hold a pencil kind of crackers and broken it. It's gunpowder went straight into my eyes. Then my parents rushed me to clean up my eyes and thankfully it didn't cause any problem. But, then on I and my parents feared crackers. 😂😂😂

The next memory is from my stay at Jajpur. This town of Odisha hosts a number of Kali idols in Mandaps. We used to go by walk around the entire town hoping from one pandal to another. So, many fierce images of Maa Kali is worshipped. Some pandals had Shiv Parvati too. 

The next one is from my stay at Mithlesh colony Munger Bihar. I was in my 7th or 8th std. My brothers went with their friends to burst crackers and I was busy decorating my house with 🪔 diya. As I mentioned earlier I didn't like burning crackers. But, decorating my home with Rangolis and diya is my favourite part. Suddenly, my father called me. He himself never liked to burn crackers. And he was too fond of studies.( It was his childhood that he spent in much hardship and only his education made him eligible for a good life. He stood 11th in his state board and till today nobody from his school has broken his record. That school has a good reputation in my native village area. And his name was mentioned in their platinum jubilee book that they published. Proud of his ability to focus on his studies in spite of all the troubles life gave him. ) So, we not studying the entire day was not something that he liked. He called me and said to read out the newspaper to him. I read but because of the outside noise he was having hard time listening to me. And he kept telling me this is not the right pronounciation and all. My entire evening got spoilt listening to his scolding without even making any mistake. Once he finished I could not stop my tears. But, as I am someone who doesn't cry in front of people I went to my bed and kept crying the whole evening.

Then the next one is from my engineering days. We were in final year or 3rd yr and were in hostel. We girls were playing and burning little bit of crackers. Our hostel gaurd warned us to lock our windows and not to look outside during the night because outside our hostel was a small Kali temple with a weird Kali sadhak who would do some puja at the night. 

 Memories good or bad happen unexpectedly and they stay there forever. Today's best time create best memories for tomorrow. 

Thus, this time my focus is to create some good memories for me and my family. I have almost covered up decluttering my house.  Tomorrow, I will be doing final cleanup followed by decorating my house for Diwali. Hope so I will create some beautiful memories for my little son to remember forever.