To that generation.
As I for the n'th time shamelessly watch 'Julie & Julia', I can't stop but wonder how it would be like to really live in that generation, of the early 1980's, where people would send out family postcards, letters to communicate, use cookbooks and not printed recipes to try something new in the kitchen, and typewriters existed.
Wow thats a long sentence and lot to wonder about.
How grateful I am to be a 90's kid, where mother's wearing crisp cotton sari's was the most fashionable garment ever, a time where floppy's and cassettes were hip and happening (thank you father), and a video game?! Boy oh boy, was the best thing ever or what!
Did that now bring a smile to your face?
Wonderful.
Girls, do you feel like a cotton sari right now? or may be a tazzo? or some 'wwf cards'? (yes girls played that too)
Boys, may be open up a cpu? or just bullie your sibling?
Given our time and age, call me old fashioned, but yes, I sure live in some victorian age in my head. Writing letters is still my thing. Cotton sari's are probably the best thing ever, and yes, cooking from a collection of amazing recipes with a hardbound cover is divine.
Do we really want to be this self consumed generation to have dinner from take out containers once we get home? do we really want to be the generation that is amazed by technology and still wants to live in a little nostalgia? Well, what if I tell you it's possible?
Here's a start.
Invest in a basic cooking book (I just did). Write a handwritten letter to your friend at least once a year. Pick up the phone and call instead of leaving a whatsapp. Borrow something old from your parents, something close to your heart and keep it. Invest in framing some old photographs in your house. Keep a book with telephone numbers and not just contacts on your phone.
Last but not the least, put together a tiny box of things you owned ever since you were little. A walk down memory lane once in a while is never too bad.
Wow thats a long sentence and lot to wonder about.
How grateful I am to be a 90's kid, where mother's wearing crisp cotton sari's was the most fashionable garment ever, a time where floppy's and cassettes were hip and happening (thank you father), and a video game?! Boy oh boy, was the best thing ever or what!
Did that now bring a smile to your face?
Wonderful.
Girls, do you feel like a cotton sari right now? or may be a tazzo? or some 'wwf cards'? (yes girls played that too)
Boys, may be open up a cpu? or just bullie your sibling?
Given our time and age, call me old fashioned, but yes, I sure live in some victorian age in my head. Writing letters is still my thing. Cotton sari's are probably the best thing ever, and yes, cooking from a collection of amazing recipes with a hardbound cover is divine.
Do we really want to be this self consumed generation to have dinner from take out containers once we get home? do we really want to be the generation that is amazed by technology and still wants to live in a little nostalgia? Well, what if I tell you it's possible?
Here's a start.
Invest in a basic cooking book (I just did). Write a handwritten letter to your friend at least once a year. Pick up the phone and call instead of leaving a whatsapp. Borrow something old from your parents, something close to your heart and keep it. Invest in framing some old photographs in your house. Keep a book with telephone numbers and not just contacts on your phone.
Last but not the least, put together a tiny box of things you owned ever since you were little. A walk down memory lane once in a while is never too bad.
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