I don’t know why I feel this way!
After all, it was just an inanimate object incapable of thinking or
feeling.  Yet, I feel deeply sad as if I have
lost a dear family member and can’t help feeling guilty as if I’ve let it down,
betrayed its trust and sent it away when it became too old and weak!

I’m talking about my old ’fridge
which I exchanged yesterday for a brand new, gleaming double-door ’fridge.  My happiness at procuring a new ’fridge is
dampened somewhat by the fact that I had to send away the old one. 

The old ’fridge was in our
household for many many years, giving excellent service.  Only once we had repainted it and changed the
gas.  Otherwise it had never given any
trouble.  I remember when many years ago
we had opened up a fast food joint and had no money to buy a new ’fridge, we
had taken it down to the joint and used it there for many months.  That was a particularly tough period for us,
but the old faithful ’fridge performed its duty even then!

Of late, it was not working
properly, it was not cooling enough and the door lining had become loose
because of which cockroaches were getting inside.  It was painfully becoming apparent that we
needed a new ’fridge.

The new ’fridge was delivered yesterday
and they took away my old ’fridge – don’t know if it’s lying somewhere in a
dark corner of a scrap godown!  Come to
think of it, don’t really know what they do with the old ’fridges!  Do they scrap them or give them to some
second-hand dealers who repair, repaint and then sell them?  If that’s the case, I’d be happy if it finds
a new home.

I know I’m an emotional
fool.  An object can’t think or
feel.  Yet it hurts so much when you have
to send away a thing that has been part of your life for so long!

That’s why I’m writing this piece
in remembrance of my old refrigerator.  I’m
doing this for myself (it’s okay if no one reads my blog), because I want to
immortalize my old refrigerator on this page, to make it live on somewhere in
the world wide web.

[I know this feeling of loss will go away after some days and I’ll be
okay once more.]