Collectibles
Like
all children I too had hobbies and collectibles. Collectibles can sometimes be weird,
but there was a time when I was focused on it day and night.
In my early days, one
of my weirdest collectibles used to be Nido tin seals. Nido was a famous brand
for milk powder. Those days it had odd promotions. It goes like this…..The more
number of tin seals you collected, you had more chance of winning a prize -
depending on the promotion. Sometimes the prizes were walk-mans, clocks, salad
bowls, coffee mugs, toys, bags and many more. One of it was to collect 15 tin
seals to claim for a walk-man. I waited for months to finish collecting 15 tin seals
to own a walk-man. I forced myself to drink more milk so that my mom would buy
more of Nido. The day I achieved 15 seals was the happiest day of my life. I
was going to be an owner of a walk-man. I rushed to the store and grabbed my
prized possession. To my sheer bad luck, it worked for a few minutes and then
stopped. That was the most heart-breaking episode of my life. After a lot of
crying I finally managed to get more tin seals from my mom and got another one.
It worked perfectly fine and was one of my best possessions.
After
having accomplished my first collectible prize, I never stopped. I went on with
my collections and finally won all the prizes that were up during the promotion
time. I m sure all ma friends back in gulf those days shared the same happiness as i did.
I
really don’t know when I stopped, but when I come to think about it now. I feel
it was the best moment of my life, when I earned something for all the hardships
I went through to posses them. I wouldn’t have been so happy about my goodies
if it came to me effortlessly.
By the way….I
still have the walk-man but i lost all the others.
I say;
Tiny
little collectibles
Was
my joy
Tiny
little collectibles
Were
my Toys
I
looked at it all the time
They
looked so beautiful
And
I swelled with pride
My
possessions seemed
Like
a treasure
Once
it was a joy
Once
it was a toy
Later
it became a throw away
And
finally it found its place