Seniors seem to be autumn -plant
Even with soft sentimental touch
Fall apart , fragments of memory
Like dry but tinted leaves .
Where flies the glamour or flavor of life?
If variety is the spice of life
Why not memory be?
why laughter romance fun
vaporize through strainer in memoir;
Leaving in arid desert only warm sigh and tear?
Let sprinkle of laughter and humor
be added to serve as dessert!
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Memoir or autobiography is written on the basis of one's "ABILITY' to collect memories ; one need to retain the past events and images.
We passed through variety of experiences and emotions in life; Joys sorrows , love , loss , gain ,laughter , fun festivals bitterness sufferings ,reward , insult and what not : whole gamut of emotions.
We the seniors, share our stories with one another in memoir classes last two years The seniors focus mostly the negative side of life ;Out of ten members elaborately write and explain about disease. (mostly cancer), painful delivery of baby or death of beloved near and. dear one ., survival of holocaust , neglected and troubled childhood , unhappy marriage ending in divorce, racism or surviver as victim of rape ; I feel these are no doubt painful events to forget ;But is n't life something more?
I always think why nobody writes much about stupidity fun and humor in every day life to make the readers' laugh. instead of impressing their mind with tragedy ?
Charlie Chaplin said" A day without laughter is a day wasted;Laughter is the tonic, the relief from pain."
Really,Life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but become comedy in long shot ; so better to look life through not microscope but telescope . Memoir is a psychotherapy, a catharsis . Even the sad events loose the edginess as it becomes metamorphosis through the long gap of time !
I am noticing last 10/15 years the trend of literature is turning to add to the heap of cook-book storage and personal memoir/ autobiography .
Is it the future of our literature?
Sipra Roy
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