there was something soothing about the music which somehow caused bunnu to remember simpler times in his own life : his days back in bahlia before the chance to leave finally came upon him ; those days before he had taken that irreversible step , leaving behind his childhood , leaving behind a place which would seem to him very different , years later , when he finally returned and had the chance to view those once-familiar surroundings for the very first time with the eyes of a young adult .