17 Reasons Why We Miss Old School Holi A Lot

Colors, food and celebrations.

Holi is a unique festival. Unlike Diwali, where you deck up in your best clothes, looking slick and your best, you look your worst in Holi.

And you do not mind at all. And instead of playing with crackers, you play with colors and actually engage in playful fights with your friends.

And in that sense, Holi is a very outgoing festival where everyone gives up all their inhibitions about looking good, watching what they eat, the petty squabbles they had with their friends and neighbors, and go all out with colors and water balloons in their hands.

The old school way of celebrating Holi was the best. Why?

1. Waking up on the day of the holi all excited!

This is the earliest you have woken up on a holiday.

 

2. Going to the bathroom and checking your stash of water balloons you filled last night

And rubbing your hands together with an evil grin on your face.

 

3. Not having to listen to your mom screaming “take a bath!”

And you can strut your walk all around the house without taking a bath, and she can’t tell you anything.

 

4. Looking outside the window to see if the proceedings have started or not

When will they start?!?!

 

5. Applying lots of coconut oil all over your body

More like slathering yourself with oil.

 

6. Trying to steal the special food mother has prepared for guests for holi

And then she chasing you out of the kitchen because you haven’t taken a bath. Wait. That happens every day.

 

7. Losing your shit when your friends finally appear at your doorstep!

And they bombard you with colors all together and you love it!

 

8. Keeping that one small pouch of silver color that the shopkeeper promised will never wash away

The real deal.

 

9. All the friends with normal pichkaris ganging up on the one with a huge and fancy pichkaris

More pichkaris always greater than bigger pichkaris!

 

10. Water balloon fights!

And the horror when the balloon doesn’t burst upon impact and is picked by the same person who you threw at.

RUN!

 

11. Looking completely unrecognizable after an hour

Also, you can taste the colors in your mouth.

 

12. Going to your friends’ places and eating all they have prepared

You are hungry all the time because of all the playing, and you eat like a monster. Guilt free.

 

13. Going ape shit crazy and abandoning pichkaris and throwing bucket full of water over each other

The last leg when everyone just goes all out.

 

14. Coming home exhausted and spending the next 3 hours scrubbing yourself clean

Soap. Rinse. Soap. Rinse. Repeat 10 times.

Give up.

 

15. And still end up looking like this

You have to live with a red hue on your face for the next three days. Guilt free. Again.

 

16. And then after you are in clean clothes, this one guy will turn up

And pour color all over you. And you cannot do anything.

 

17. Going to sleep completely exhausted.

Feeling completely content.

Holi makes children out of us.

Now to wait eagerly until Diwali.

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