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11 September 2026
There are things we collect in life—money, possessions, photographs, certificates and memories. Yet, strangely, the things that remain longest are often the things we never intended to keep.
A kind word spoken to someone having a difficult day. A phone call made simply because we remembered. A little patience when anger would have been easier. A smile given to a stranger who may have needed it more than we knew.
Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It, “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” Perhaps that is what growing older teaches us. Life is never perfectly arranged. There are disappointments, mistakes, losses and unfinished stories. But there are also small moments of goodness woven quietly through them.
We may not remember every conversation we had. Someone else may not remember ours either.
Perhaps that is the finest trace a person can leave behind—not a monument, but a little warmth in somebody else’s memory.
But sometimes, long after the words are forgotten, the feeling remains.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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Email: rajatchandrasarmah@gmail.com
