Tick! Tick! Tick! I could hear clearly, Oh! It was the clock saying 4:30 am. I rose from the bed, picked my N72 phone and went on the roof. My eyes were fixed on the breathtaking ambience of the starry cover. I began thanking God for so many happy years and the life of bliss He has blessed me with.
Something in me knew, somebody miles away would be thinking of me.I was waiting with apprehension; silently hoping that he would call. TRINN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................I picked as soon as it rung. A tear rolled down my cheek when I heard “HAPPY BIRTHDAY my child” in an impeccable voice.
Sometimes I try to contemplate, how unpredictable, vacillating the life is. I can’t help myself from wondering when I feel its beauty, when I think of all it has given me in the past two decades. You never know what destiny has for you to unravel the very next second. In the course of life, people come and go and the cycle goes on and on…..But at certain heavenly moments, we meet some people who are a bit at odds, unlike the majority who came before them and will come after them. You just like them, their presence fetches solace. I don’t know whether everybody is lucky to have such angels or not but yes, I am the LUCKY ONE. You just need a serene eye to recognize.
Like most of the humans on earth, I too have a family and love it like anything. I never had even a dimmest notion that someday I would admire and love somebody as one of my family members….but he deserves this. He, I know has always had a special place for me. They say, “The relations defined by blood are more intense than any other one”. But the unfeigned affection I see in his eyes for me has always challenged this quote. I just forget all worldly tensions and discomfort when his hand slowly revolves on my head, when he gently taps on my shoulder, touches my face and smiles back at me. Neither have I ever addressed him as my father nor has he ever introduced me as his daughter to anybody but we both know what we are to each other.
Though an opinionated person on men and matters, he listens to others patiently who try to convince him but rarely concedes their points. People (who know us both) say, “Only Ashima can take up the challenge of convincing him”. He is brutally frank and outspoken, a quality very few understand and admire in him. The positive way of looking at it, I think, is total absence of hypocrisy in him. He believes in practicing what he often advises me-never compromise on ethics for money. The other thing that I have learnt from him and which he himself practices is extending a helping hand when it is sought. He is brisk and efficient in whatever he does. Not everybody understands him. His frankness is sometimes misinterpreted as sourness, but such things can never dwindle my faith. He is strict disciplinarian and most of the times wears a stern expression but his stiff lips begin to widen into a smile when I come to his sight.
“Ashima, you will rise high and brighten my name”, has always been his refrain. I have never said to him but he knows I love him. I have my father, he has his children, still there is divine bond that binds us together. If I ever choose a guy, I will look for some qualities that I see in him. Something deep in me feels there is something that only I have and that others do not.
Flabbergasted I am, such are the surprises of life :)
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