Its Diwali again!

The festival of lights it was, and the festival of sounds it is now. Since the time my family gave up on Diwali I've started to dread the day. Coz everybody seems to be lighting up their houses, everybody is happy for no particular reason while I am stuck in my room wondering what is the reason to celebrate?! This diwali is going to be extra gloomy with mom and dad leaving for Madras. I will prolly give my grandparents some company, they could do with a little of me. My initial plan was to catch a movie but sadly both blue and main aur mrs.khanna were rated very low. I wouldnt want to waste a good 2 and a half hours on rotten cinema. I have better things to do in life :P
Right now there are crackers being blasted in some corner and blazing music playing at the club. Only to let my spirits sore higher! Nice try, sadly tough luck kids :P This is how I respond to Diwali today.
And years back all I could look forward to was diwali (that way all I could look forward to was festivals :P) Spirits would be high though diwali was a celebration of good over evil, the return of Ram, the onset of winter, for us all that didn't matter. Diwali meant new clothes, sweets, a shopping trip to the wholesale market where the fire crackers were on display, a week long preparation for the big day, fancy toy guns and bullet reels as a prequel the week long. We would even try our own recipes to invent some innovative bombs with the reeking gun powder! And finally when the day would arrive, it would be lakshmi puja first, lighting of the diyas at the puja and in the house and then we would hit the ground!After all pleasantaries n Nice sun dried crackers waiting, all the kids would begin with a thousand wallah to announce our arrival! It would go on the rest of the evening and would end with a bonfire, and a nice chat to the end. That was diwali back then :)
Now or then, may you have a safe and happy diwali! And may good still prevail over bad :)