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looklook 84M
4588 posts
3/14/2020 11:41 am

Last Read:
4/10/2023 8:55 am

A Banal Story

An abrupt encounter in a railway coach!


This banal story is being re posted hereunder for someone who wanted to read it again!


It did not take them much time to recognize each other while traveling in the compartment of the intercity train. However, they preferred to remain silent until it was almost time for her to get off the train at the next station. She continued to gaze casually through the window at the fast vanishing blue sky until she slowly asked him;

“The days we spent together that are now gone, have we lost them all?”

The question took him long back down the memory lane and he could not respond to her instantly! He waited some minutes and then uttered slowly the unforgettable line that he read long before in her last letter to him:

“All the stars that shine in the night, they get lost in the daylight!”

She got off the train when the train finally stopped at the next station without telling a word to him and he continued his journey to his destination, unsure about the reaction of his answer to her.



looklook 84M
3925 posts
3/14/2020 11:51 am

Down the memory lane!


Maudie1 74F
8151 posts
3/14/2020 1:29 pm

I have been going down memory lane a lot lately. It can be lovely and heartbreaking all at the same time.

Nice post looklook.


looklook 84M
3925 posts
3/14/2020 1:52 pm

    Quoting Maudie1:
    I have been going down memory lane a lot lately. It can be lovely and heartbreaking all at the same time.

    Nice post looklook.
Maudie,
“We are what we remember. ...
Thanks for stopping by and for your post. Stay happy and cheerful.


MrsJoe 76F
17382 posts
3/14/2020 6:26 pm

I still find too many tears blur my vision on memory lane, so I avoid it as much as possible.


Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


looklook 84M
3925 posts
3/14/2020 9:25 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    I still find too many tears blur my vision on memory lane, so I avoid it as much as possible.

Mrs. Joe,
Perhaps we all try to avoid walking down the memory lane when too many tears blur our vision on there even though memory never lies! However, I wonder, does memory always tell the truth? I read somewhere that it "does not always tell the truth!"


Archer62 83F
7085 posts
3/15/2020 7:32 am

GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE IS NOT ALWAYS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. IT OFTEN LEADS TO THE QUESTION: WHAT IF? AND THAT CAN OFTEN LEAD TO PAIN AND SADNESS AND THINKING WE MIGHT HAD BEEN ABLE TO ACT DIFFERENTLY;


looklook 84M
3925 posts
3/15/2020 10:35 am

    Quoting Archer62:
    GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE IS NOT ALWAYS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. IT OFTEN LEADS TO THE QUESTION: WHAT IF? AND THAT CAN OFTEN LEAD TO PAIN AND SADNESS AND THINKING WE MIGHT HAD BEEN ABLE TO ACT DIFFERENTLY;
Archer, In response to your thoughtful post,please allow me to quote a few lines from a poem that I like most:

"I take frequent strolls down memory lane,

Sometimes it's sunny and pleasant,

Other times it's cold,

windy and raining.."

Archer, you are absolutely right about traveling down the memory lane.