Why do we like a place?
Madurai - my father’s place. A place I absolutely hated when I was young.
If there was one place where i did not want to settle down, then that had to be Madurai.
But I did visit Madurai thrice this year already for various reasons and strangely I find myself attracted to it.Maybe i’m getting older and also looking for my roots subconsciously - when my relatives talk about dad as if he was alive till y’day, or when i drink the ‘jigirthanda’ in MM stall in South Masi Street.
Or, maybe not. Coimbatore was heaven till my parents and my friends were there. Now, it does not figure much in my thoughts.Coming to think of it, i think it does not matter whether a city is clean or has pleasant climate to like it. Madurai does not possess any of these qualities, for sure.
What matters is what meaning or memories that place hold for us. If a place can evoke fond memories, of good times, and can make us feel good, we are sure to like that place, even if its Sahara.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Wow..lovely post on a nice topic.
To top all….
//What matters is what meaning or memories that place hold for us. If a place can evoke fond memories, of good times, and can make us feel good, we are sure to like that place, even if its Sahara.//
SO VERY TRUE
Nice post!! ~ Enjoyed reading…
Cheers,
Marutham.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:15 am
“What matters is what meaning or memories that place hold for us. If a place can evoke fond memories, of good times, and can make us feel good, we are sure to like that place, even if its Sahara”
- Agree 200%. Very well put.
Madras pathi yenna nenaikkareenga nu sollave illaiye?
April 25th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Agreed.
Very often I relate myself to Srirangam and even when ppl ask where you are from, many a times I have said Srirangam, although I have lived there for only 3 yrs. The only reason for saying so are the memories - both good and bad, but those which evokes a soothing feeling and those that makes us call the place a home in the real sense of the word.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:41 am
very true
i have only been in chennai. but been in a number of places in chennai.
my schooling was in annanager and evrytime i pass the roads it brings back fond memories….. mount railway station reminds me of college and girly gossip in LC in train
hah..memories…it is beautiful
some memories are as fresh as it was yesterday
April 25th, 2007 at 6:04 am
PK sir,
Hyderabad is missing from your list..?? .. comment adikka bayama..)))
your last para is very very true..:)
April 25th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Coimbatore Maapillaiya irunthuttu enda ippadi thidir nu Madurai machaana poitte..
April 25th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
@Deepak
athanae……………;-)
@PK
bathil solunga……… palaya postla ellam CBE pathi pugal paditu ippadi thideernu Madurai ku vote podareenga!!!
April 25th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
marutham,
thanks
bala,
i’d seen the best of my professional life in chennai
chakra,
i know
monu,
bala4u,
hyderabad kum enakkum sambandham illaye? onnum purila!
deepak,
adangu da dei. i’ve told the reason also
deepa,
April 26th, 2007 at 12:11 am
You are absolutely right PK. I don’t know why..but whenever I go to Kerala..I don’t feel like coming back home !
June 21st, 2008 at 12:20 am
very true…Feel the same way abt Madurai after I left the place…