Choices! What will it be? #21

Hello, my dear steemian ladies, every week @patjewell surprises us by providing wonderful titles to contest. This time also she gave us different topics such as ruller, avocado, box, cage, and hugs. While I was oscillating between two topics, finally I decided to choose BOX. Now, let’s see what my thoughts are.

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In my native home, there was a beautiful large wooden box. It was about 6 feet long, four feet wide, and 5 feet deep, and was beautifully decorated with wooden carvings and metal. It was a lovely shape box with elegant 4 legs and a lock too. My mother told me that it belonged to my grandmother. We always called it “Grandma's Pettagama (large box)”.

Those days, there was no modern cabinet to store cups and saucers, glasses, plates, and so on. My grandmother had a large collection of beautiful ceramic items such as cups and saucers, dishes, jugs, glasses, and so on. All of those items were stored in that box. Not only that but also other valuables items such as spoons and forks were kept in that box. After my grandmother’s death, my mother became the owner of that box. Later, that box was filled with my mother’s belongings as well.

I can remember, that when there was a wedding in my area, people came to our house to take away those ceramic items. Later, when the modern cabinet was introduced to society, this large box lost its place in the home. All of those ceramic items, as well as other spoons and forks, were stored in this new cabinet, which was installed in a dining room. That too happened to my house.

When my father brought a cabinet to my house, my mother stored all those beautiful ceramic items as well as other spoons and forks in that cabinet. Therefore, that box was empty and no one wanted to lock it.

Later, my elder sister used it to keep her school books. Not only her books but also all our printed books were stored in that box. As, it was very big, even though kept all those books, it could not filled. Then, my elder sister told us to keep our all-exercise books too, on one side. We all had separate places in that box to keep our books. As it was not locked, anybody could have opened it when they wanted.

When my elder sisters and elder brothers married, I was the elder one in my family. Then automatically I got the ownership of that box. As I had two younger sisters, we all shared that box to keep our school items. After each of us got a separate table for schoolwork, we also stopped using that box. Finally, that box lost its place even in rooms. Later, it passed to the kitchen and mother used it to store sugar bottles, rice, dry fish as well other food items.

With time, all those antique items such as old large boxes, old almaira, and old beds received a worthy place in society. By this time, I was employed. So, I had money in my hand, therefore, I decided to renovate that box.

After discussing it with my parents, I gave it a good look by painting and polishing. I indeed had to spend a considerable amount on that, but after renovating it, even though, it was over 50 years old, it got an elegant look.

As it got an elegant look after renovation, my grandmother’s pettagama got a due place in our house again. It was no longer in the kitchen or room, but it got a place again in the dining room.

If my grandmother were alive, I am sure she could have hugged and kissed me, as I gave it a due place.

Here is my submission for this week’s competition. I would like to invite @eliany, @inspiracion, @nahela, and @suboohi to take part in this lovely contest. The contest announcement can be found here.

10% to @steemladies.

Thank you for reading my post.