DP Daily Prompt: If I Could Turn Back Time
If you could return to the past to relive a part of your life , either to experience the wonderful bits again, or to do something over, which part of your life would you return to? Why?
If there was a way to return to my past where my father was alive and we were a one big happy family I’d do it in a heartbeat. Why? That was the time when everything was wonderful in my life, except my big sister she was the only one who was the biggest thorn in my life. I’ll forget about her presence in my happy story.
I remember playing with my two older brothers, we played with marbles, they taught me how to strike the marbles in front of me, each time I succeeded I could win the marble I struck. My fingers were not as strong as them, I played in a weird way, they complained but let me have the marble.
They also coaxed me to give them the money I had from selling my old books, they wanted to go and watch a movie, they had to plead a few times I eventually gave my money, I found pleasure in knowing they wanted something from me.
Sometimes my eldest brother wanted to borrow money from me, I always had a little bit of money, I couldn’t spend it because my father was not in favor of spending it to buy junk food. So I’d lend the money to my brother and told him he’d have to pay double the amount,once he said I was worse than the Kabuliwalla, these were money lenders who were mean and would come around to collect after a certain date and would stay put until they were paid. I wasn’t that bad.
Next I’d spend a lot of time sitting beside my father in the garden and asked him a lot of questions, while my father kept busy with his newspaper my eldest brother would tease me with the saying,”You know Ranu curiosity killed a cat.” Now I wish I had asked how did the cat get killed?
Once my father’s friend gave me a ride to school,I was very shy then, I got off the car and said, “thank you” so softly my father couldn’t hear, he was disappointed because he thought I didn’t thank his friend. I told him I did it didn’t seem he believed me.
I really would like to revisit those times, I felt they were the best times I had in my life!
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Nice story Ranu. It reminded me about my two brothers and how they always managed to borrow money from me. They were older than me and were clever at getting their own way. I feel a little sad for you that you lost your father when you were so young.
Thank you Rainee,you are very kind.
simple times are those of a child. I wish you had a few for moments as well Ranu 🙂
Thank you Leslie I really mean it.
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Awhhhhh.. I’m glad we can still relive beautiful times through our memories. Thank you for sharing these precious moments with us.
Much love
Thank you Shaidi, I loved writing it and much happier to know you liked it too.
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Dear Ranu,
Thank you for this post. I like it.
If I could turn back time, I would do so, and undo any wrongdoings I did to others. But I can’t go back in time.
All good wishes,
robert
Thank you Robert for your comments.
A very sweet post Ranu! Forget the thorns! 😀
I know that is what I always tell myself. Thank you.
I liked this post. It seemed that you had a pretty good relationship with most of your family, excluding That One Sister.
That one sister always criticized me, she ridiculed me,in one word she was, “Terrible”. Thank you Noah.
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