Flash and back

It really did happen to me. A complete cinematic flashback! I swear it did.
I was driving on Ramasami Salai in West KK Nagar in Chennai this morning. When for a fleeting eternal second, I was transported to the time when I pedalled my red Hero cycle to school. From some remote corner of my brain, a neuron decided to party and psyche me out!
I think this is happening because of the confusion Chennai puts me through. May be it is a neural overload and the brain has said "Screw it". All the places I drove around this weekend looked so familiar and yet they were just not the same. Be it the school I studied or the area I grew up in.
I can still see the Majestic Ashok Pillar, but that is about it. All the places that form part of my memory of a childhood are getting erased very fast.
Sometimes I do wish that I was part of some quaint little town that never changes! But not Chennai! You can feel the energy of change even on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I was crossing my school when the naughty neuron decided to bamboozle me. You can literally see the my past being overwritten by someone else's present! But that is a good thing I suppose! Signs of progress, I rationalize. Of course, I do feel good that 20 years down the road when someone else drives by, he or she is going to have a flashback as they look at their vanishing past!