I guess it was during my college years that I got so fascinated with the advertisements in foreign magazines which my Dad used to collect for his design work. I used to tear up fancy ads, fashionable statements, art work, images for my personal collection.
One such collection is relating to kids greeting cards where they pray to god asking to grant their innocent wishes. These are so cute, lovely and would just melt your heart. I sometimes feel that these personal touches which used to exist with pen, pencil and paper is lost completely in today’s digital world.
To be honest, it is ironical or paradoxical for me to make such a statement as I am typing this in a computer instead of writing this down in a piece of paper which would have been the mode 3 decades ago.
Life with it’s technological advancement has moved on by leaps and bounds and so have we with the passage of time. Yet even after these many years and decades, when I look back into these pictures, I feel a sense of yearning, how much I miss that childish innocence…..that was so pure, with a bundle of joyous moments and happy laughter….living a dreamy life without care, cared by all, not burdened by anything and living in the present…neither thinking about the past, nor worried about the future…a life so simple without any rules…seeking simple pleasures…to be cuddled and kissed by their parents…that seems like a bygone era…all that I can do now is to relish and cherish those fascinating days through these pictures that have come alive once again…..through digital media….life goes on….
Even my own child has lived through his innocent days and says now…..how I wish to go back in time to be that sweet little cute child with no cares and full of love adored by parents and others alike….he feels already burdened by studies and what not….I feel really sorry for him…it has just begun and he is already feeling exhausted while he has to run many a miles…that would seem endless….
What are we really teaching and telling our children….I keep asking this question time and again and I still don’t know the answer….
Let us at least forget these for a while as we bask in the glory of childhood through these images….
Beautiful Life 