O Re Piya - Where have you been?

It was a late night, was fraught to get some sleep, I couldn't. Turned on my system, started listening to some random songs. All of a sudden there was one song which triggered too many memories within a flash...."o re piya"(by rahet fateh ali khan)

This was the song of my life during my college days. I used to hear this song like every time, when I was alone... when I was sad... when I was so happy... when I traveled to my college and when i went back to my home... a lot of occasions. The song was like some one, to whom I can share my heart's deepest thoughts. I can still remember, I have taken few big decisions listening to this song. 

There were even times I wistfully wished that this song should be the background score for my entire life. I swear to God, I never like sticking to one, but this song was something special. I enjoy music all the time. Agreed, but I loved this song, there was no moment or scenario where this song doesn't have made things better. OK, sometimes it may not be appropriate, but that never meant I wouldn't want it!

As days went, eventually I stopped thinking about about this song, not consciously. I don’t have a clue how did this happen? You may forget the lyrics of your favorite song but not the song itself. You know that feeling you get after you hear your favorite song for the first time? All you want to do is play it again and again, so it stays stuck on your head forever. But now, it’s been really a year since I heard this song. When the song started to play, tears started rolling in my cheeks, before even I knew it. 

Just hearing a particular song can evoke vivid memories of the past or special events in your life. Just then I came to know: Music can be a powerful memory cue. Some memories get locked into our brains, persisting for decades. Others slip out by the next day.

Isn’t it amazing how much the small things mean to us? I still remember songs being my buddies as a child. I would hear them and just spend a whole day hanging out just with them. I think it is the beauty of the music that kept me going when the ugliness of humans went to be too much

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Isn’t it true? “Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.”