What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street?
On familiar roads, streets, and cities, memories are often the first things to rise and flow one after another as you walk along and through them.
Have you ever experienced that quiet feeling of nostalgia?
I have.
As you walk along a familiar street, a memory of an old friend, a joke, or even a phone call might pop up into your head without any warning.
Those moments are actually the best gifts you may find along the road, and they may be the most precious too.
Whenever I visit Manchester and walk along Oxford road, where Manchester University is, the memories of our first days in the UK rush back into my mind as if it was yesterday.
Things have changed, though; with new shops, new buildings, and of course new faces, but I don’t mind. My first memories of this city always come back fresh and strong.
There, in the university accommodation which still has its unique name, Horniman House, we lived for quite a few years.
On this road, I walked with new friends from different countries.
On this road, I heard the Manchester accent that was so different from the English I learned throughout my entire education.
On this road, I knew how it felt like to be soaked by the British heavy showers.
On this road, I got my first sunburn under the British glaring, bossy sun.
And there are more and more memories, I find along this road whenever I go there, but that’s enough for now.
With memories-along- the-road thoughts,
Nahla
Pure and Simple 