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Date: 6 December 2025
Evenings have the power to turn us into accidental comedians. A small memory from years ago can suddenly appear and make us smile at our own foolishness. Today, I remembered the time we tried to impress school seniors by jumping over a ditch—only to land on the same muddy patch we were trying to avoid. We laughed then, but now the memory seems even funnier, softened by time.
We grow older, wiser, and more careful, but the child in us refuses to retire. He shows up when we trip slightly, when we misplace our glasses, or when we laugh too loudly at a simple joke.
Life is serious, yes.
But evenings remind us that we are allowed to be joyfully human.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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