Leave Taking: Some Thoughts

It has been really interesting to observe how the decision of leaving can tie you up to that paticular place more strongly. As long as you live there, you really do not belong there. It's only when you leave you begin to relive the traces of the left behind zone. It is like childhood; you dont love it when you are a child. You learn to recognize the innocence after the innocence is lost. Or, It is like Youth-- one can only fully appreciate the beauty and the joys of it when s/he is past it-- a friend of mine told me once. It is, i guess, the eternal condition of human mind....a starange voyeurism towards the lost connections... an uneasy yearning for the irrecoverable past.

I'm being almost boringly nostalgic today because i'm taking a leave for good-- from two places that have played crucial parts in my process of growing up. We are shifting to a new house and im giving up my UIU job.

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right