13 Diwali moments you may not have known

Diwali, the “festival of lights” is India’s favorite celebration as friends and families from all over the country come together to celebrate the festival. It is an undeniable fact that all of us, as kids and even as adults, await with pleasure to celebrate Diwali, or at least I do. Excitement and enthusiasm fill our houses as the D-day gets close. Don’t we all have memorable Diwali moments that we recollect and live again during every year’s celebration? With Diwali fast approaching, we are here to rekindle those happy Diwali moments and take you down the memory lane.

Best Diwali moments

1. Kickstart your Diwali plans

As a kid, each of us would have planned the Diwali celebrations a week prior to the festival. While our parents were eager to renew the look of our homes, we were keen on shopping and eating sweets. Although a hectic job, you would have helped your mother in cleaning your house. And not to forget the happy moments we had with our pals while decorating our homes with colorful diyas and string lights.

2. Let’s go shopping

The fun part of celebrating Diwali is shopping. I bet you would have chalked out a long list of items including new clothes, jewelry, gifts, and buying crackers every year. Don’t we all remember visiting local markets a week before Diwali to buy fancy lamps, rangoli powder, and garlands? I can still vividly remember my mother bargaining with the vendors while I was busy ticking off the items from my list. 

3. Food comes first

Speaking of Diwali, how could we forget the delicious sweets and savories prepared by our mother and grandmother. I am pretty sure everyone you would have involved in some mischief while helping your mothers in the kitchen. Along with the aroma and taste of the Diwali snacks, these memories will also last forever.

4. Kindle the artist in you

Diwali is incomplete without colorful rangolis outside the house. Even you would have taken so much effort in selecting a rangoli design, sketching it on paper and completing the colors. Also, your joy would have known no bounds when relatives and neighbors appreciate your beautiful rangolis. And not to forget the sense of relief you get when kids do not step on the rangolis and ruin them, right! 

5. Yayy, its Diwali! 

The day of Diwali dawns early as every person in the family wakes up soon and gears up for the celebrations. While you wouldn’t have slept the previous day musing about the celebrations, I bet you still would have been the first person in the house to wake up. Unlike any other day, you would have bathed early, worn new clothes, indulged in puja rituals. After a yummy breakfast, you would have waited for friends and cousins to join you in bursting crackers, didn’t you?

6. Embrace Green Diwali although you love bursting crackers

Although called the festival of lights, Diwali is all about bursting crackers. As we reminisce about Diwali, making a list of desired crackers and pestering our parents to buy them are the foremost memories that pop in our head. Wasn’t it fun as a kid when you drafted the list of your favorite chakras, flower pots, sparklers and rockets with your friends? On the before night of Diwali, how many of you have won the competition of bursting the cracker at midnight? We have all had our moments betting on the loudest bombs, longest 10,000 walas, and colourful aerial displays - 250 shots, crunching 100 shots and the most colorful whistling rockets.

7. Get the party started

Diwali is the time when relatives from far and near reconnect and cement ties. What is Diwali without cards and indoor games? Who doesn’t like to spend the day with friends and cousins playing rummy, dumb charades, and board games, eating out and going to movie theatres? 

8. Lighten the world

Rightly called the festival of lights, we light up earthen lamps, clay diyas, and decorative candles on Diwali. These lamps not only brighten our homes but also illuminate the festive ambiance.

9. Family above all

Diwali reminds us of togetherness and we create many eternal Diwali happy moments while spending time with family. How fun it is to burst crackers together, click several pictures, go to temples, visit relatives and watch new movie releases. This is a great occasion to bond rather than being attached to electronics and social media.

10. Make time for a meet and greet

We all look forward to meeting and exchanging gifts and sweets with our relatives and neighborhood during Diwali. This is a great opportunity to wish them good luck and prosperity throughout the year.

11. Bring on the night show

Be it during childhood or even now, we all look forward to enjoying the night aerial fireworks. I am certain that you all would have raced your way to the terrace to witness the rockets boom into colorful sparkles in the sky. Aren’t the shimmering flames and the scintillating blazes from chakras and flower pots are wonderful sights to enjoy? 

12. The after-session of fireworks

Not to mention the whole cleaning process to be done once we finish bursting firecrackers. I bet you all had your moment fighting with your siblings to escape from this chore. But the fun is everywhere in Diwali. Who doesn’t like to throw around the burst papers and goof around with the burnt rocket sticks? With time, I have become mature and wise enough to understand that cleanliness is the most important part of the Diwali and learned to do it happily. How about you?

13. Diwali moments at school

Every one of us has happy Diwali moments at school that we could never forget. Do you remember the times when our schools would host competitions like rangoli drawing and decorating the classroom and distribute sweet boxes? Correct me if I’m wrong but those are the moments we can never get back. Oh yes we should remember how fun it was standing next to your friend and burning the sparklers and flower pots at the school playground.  

Summary

Diwali is the festival of lights, togetherness, and happiness. Beautifully decorated homes, earthen lamps that spread light everywhere, the delightful smell of the tasty sweets and the warmth of family and friends define Diwali in India. We can witness traditional Indian rituals and culture during the Diwali festivities. The celebrations are reverberant and colorful, thus creating treasured memories and happy moments that last for a lifetime.  

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