I dreamt that one day I woke up without a single memory in my mind.
I forgot who I was, who I am and who I was supposed to be.
I forgot my family, my friends, my love and my hates.
I had no clue about social norms, peer pressure, and expectations.
I had no memory of rituals, practices, and habits of every kind.
What I had was a clean sheet of paper to start all over again.
And I was happy,
I'd imagined myself seeing the world again with a fresh pair of eyes,
re-discovering the world without glasses of my pasts.
I'd imagined myself being happy because I had no idea what I am expected to do,
I can instead focus on what I always wanted to do.
To try things I have never tried for fear of failure and humiliation.
I'd imagined dancing under the rain with the rainbow as my company.
I'd imagined crying because the sunset is just the most beautiful thing I have EVER seen.
I'd imagined singing with my friends and getting to know them all over again.
I'd imagined laughing again at jokes I heard tons before.
And I'd imagined being happy without burdens of my past.
But I dreamt that slowly my memories trickled in,
Fears and expectation, pain and responsibility,
Failures and success, strength and weakness,
painted in my mind for my eyes to see.
I may not be who I wanted to be,
I may just be who I longed not to be.
Slowly, my innocence was dumped because it is too impractical,
my loves abandoned for responsibility,
my friends turned into acquaintances,
my laugh replaced by mere smile.
And I return to who I was before, with only a sliver of this memory of when I had amnesia.
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| (Source: 9gag) |
Not a rhyme.
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