Nostalgia

 

Am joining the bandwagon of people who reminisce forgotten passions and write about it. Today was the day to dispose the long unused audio cassettes from the closet as part of “get rid of things when you shift homes” ritual. Rewinding (this is a phrase used in playing cassettes too) years and reliving memories left  a rather heavy nostalgia.

Was lucky to be from the generation that experienced Audio Cassettes, CDs, MP3 disks, Walk Man before transitioning to pen drives, Ipod to phone. The pleasure of buying brand new cassettes if one could afford, the even bigger pleasure of cherry-picking songs from multiple albums for an optimized recorded compilation, the thrill of owning a player that can record cassettes (including the option to erase already recorded songs and overwrite with new ones), the pleasure of owning a player that can flip itself to play Side B, the pride of owning a player that could play cassettes with CDs etc., were the thoughts that flashed when the flood gates of memories opened up

These cassettes brought fond memories of people who gave away their collection including two dear cousins . Have ensured that some cassettes are not going to be parted with even if one room were removed from the house causing space constraints. Am sure these cassettes are going to give kicks 10/20 yrs down the line as well

At the end of the day’s experience, the only consolation in bidding goodbye to these cassettes was two facts-1. These cassettes have been beaten to death in terms of usage and there is no guilt that the money spent went down the drain and 2. These cassettes were not used for 10 yrs or so now and there is no option to say “am going to miss them badly” though that is the truth