Revisiting a place

What would happen if you revisit a place you know so well, you have vivid memories of it ,you are aware of all the people you would encounter there, you once knew them so well but within years your perception changed towards the people.Do new people affect the old vibrations of the same place? Have you planned what will you do in any of this scenario? And what's with this nostalgia thing? What if you met your old friends, would the way you interacted with them change?

So let us travel to a place where you always wanted to revisit and now got the chance to ,and let's ty to find some answers.

So was this place in a distant land where I wanted to go or not, I don't know. But one thing was sure I wouldn't have planned a revisit in years, if there were no circumstances. Entering it flashed!! with memories. one thing with the nostalgia thing it happens with people you have not met in a period of time. Hits differently for different people some may take 10 years to have those memories back, some a few months or some may even have them in minutes .I didn't knew I would have problem adjusting with the adults because the last time I went there I wasn't 18 and now I am(something is strange about this age, I mean how can you define an age of maturity,  when it is different for different people).Where went the 2 days of my life only god knows, I made an impulsive decision to go back as the test which brought me back to the city was postponed(thank you corona virus, every problem in our lives right now is because of COVID 19,atleast we have COVID to blame on) .I woke up made my bed(which I would never do in my house) ate, slept, roam, watched T.V. and then slept again (nostalgia attacks in between of course). My life was none the less different from here waking up eating watching something in the afternoon on Youtube, getting lectures from my mother to study(as I stopped seeing lectures from my teachers),Basically languishing. But something different was about to happen ,something I haven't planned before.

Those were normal mornings and evenings roaming the city, this time not with any adult but a cousin of my own age. Life was good for about some 4 days, no permission issues as we were all here to relax. Thank God cousins are not friends or else they would too refuse to come, tantrums and what in the hell not. Travelling somewhere on your own, driving, that too in a two-wheeler makes you explore the city at it's full .Saw everything, ate everything, talked about everything ,bitched, roasted, played, saw(young bloods anyway).

That was the second last day of my return, dates back to 15th JULY 2021. Our last location, a place having a miniature version of the seven wonders of the world(and also Red Fort and Taj hotel ,didn't anyone informed them that those two were not counted in the wonders ,well), the other cousin arrives at the location .Roaming as always ,taking pictures(3 pics per monument ,in all that sweat but ,thanks to those Snapchat filters we were still looking younger in those shades of black). Night time, as decided the two small lads would be left in the mall while we three went to the pub right in front of the mall. They two had to be left so that they don't see us doing that stuff and won't complain later to our parents.

Now, it was our first time we knew nothing ,except Stuti she knew something as it was her second time and she was the one who brought us here. It was a rooftop cafe and pub, frankly saying 10 times better then the one I saw recently(which I thought was the best I could see), there were men and women both. Seems like we were in a different world ,different than our own there was a DJ, a swimming pool like if somebody wanted to swim while eating he could(I don't know any other purpose of installing that thing there, maybe they lent it for parties), women were not hesitant, neither were men(except we two, we were terrified as hell). Bollywood movie scenes where boys and girls meet and all, might be inspired from this. So, came the attendant after we finished searching for hookah in the menu(cafes don't get permit to sell hookahs so they can't add them in the menu,but can sell of course) I don't know how he knew what we were looking for is a hookah,  he asked me if we want one(thinking like I was the one who was professional in all this, well I am taller then the other two and had beard as well ,so he might have thought so). I asked for the price first like a middle class man 600,flavours available kathai paan and some other mashup of mint and orange, the other one was our choice, well we were not sure of buying a hookah so I asked does it contain alcohol no, tobacco yes, Stuti rather wanted to order a  pizza but I said to order a hookah, the other flavour(something in me just said to take a shot) . After ordering Stuti went near the pool to take pictures  like she was here to brag about the thing, hookah came within minutes and we saw the man sucking from the pipe in front of us(manner less, I mean how can you taste someone else's order right in front of them, truly a different world).She sucked it first then me and then hesitantly Romil. First few puffs were hard for us, sucking less, then sucking more (perfection needs time though), some were perfect indeed. Do you know what you say happens, we thought it would cause us unbalance and it did,  we were getting high I don't know if it even had the capacity to make someone high, but we were surely started hallucinating. some more puffs, felt like the world is changing, mind getting heavier and then relaxed suddenly. The one fourth bottle that we finished gave us much pleasure. I would remember how I did this with my cousins and for how long I would remember this incident, it was good or bad I don't know, but was necessary, would not do it again, but those for once gave me feels of doing something against the odds, not necessarily good or bad, but I got power. The power with which I would change this world. 

I don't know if I could explain my first hookah experience better then this.

See coming from a small town that was all new for me, we didn't had such good cafes and pubs over there, or maybe we had but we don't go there because they are not for families,really. Previously I had a thinking that my town is excellent, we had everything in my house but, now it's all so small, the town, the state and the country(to change the world you need to do something exceptionally good, not hard work literally, more of smart work)

Another day, goodbyes and leave. But this time I got to know the city and not just the place I went to revisit.

Well all was different because I got to see the place with an elder's perspective(my way of perceiving things changed). Maybe that was not the case with you'll but, there was probably a time when you all grew up. Some don't even remember the triggering factor which led to their maturity.

Ending on this, that was how I captured moments with my cousins and my revisit.