Its Diwali !!!!!!!!

Lights, Flash, Bang, Boom, Happiness all around. It is time to be with family and enjoy the purest of happiness. Diwali represents culmination of a long drawn saga of bloodshed and tears with the homecoming of the prodigal son.
I feel like diwali is meant for people like us, people who get a chance to go home once or twice every year. It is homecoming for me, time to come to grips with the concept called family. Time when I don't need to be thinking about how others perceive me, as the people I spend time with are the most self less in the world. Although family is god given and we choose our friends, Family is one word which brings utter elation to my heart and soul.
Diwali or Deepavali provides me the chance for happiness. Those shoppings for diwali crackers, where we choose to go for the loudest and grandest of the firecrackers to enjoy, home made sweets which bring mouthwatering memories even as I type, going to others home to distribute sweets and happiness,meeting new people and gathering at a public place to watch a public display of fireworks. These are a few typical Diwali moments. Though routine, these are some memories which are entrenched in my memory ever since I could think and feel.
This diwali I am back home after missing last few of them and I am looking forward to making most out of it. Who knows whats going to happen next year.

Happy Deepavali to all and let there be lights and happiness in your life.

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