Road - Less Travelled

This is the time of Diwali Vacation. Every morning and for the whole day there are lots of children playing around my place. They shouts like they have the world with them. Fighting for a thing that they are about to throw within few minutes. They are not at all thrilled by things like diamond jewellary or precious cars. What excites them is to own colorful wrappers of chocolates, collection of glitter paper, pocket full of toffees and something like that. I saw them playing in the ground. They were totally covered by dust and sand. It was difficult to recognize them. I was thinking that their parents are facing so much pain to handle such annoying children. I was constantly staring at them, thinking what a wastage of time? These children can make good use of their time, but NO they have decided to waste it in this pool of dust. I compare myself with them. I thought whether I can afford now to waste my time in this way? Then would I be able to have what I have today? Would I be able to be a part of so-called recognized MNC at world level? Would I be able to travel in flight for which I always dreamt about? There were many such assumptions going in my mind.

Suddenly all of them started staring in the sky with same shining smile on face as well as in eyes. And all of them started jumping and shouting “aero plane, aero plane, aero plane, …”. It seems that these kids were completely fascinated by an aero plane in the sky. I also noticed aero plane in the sky, but perhaps I was not that much excited as those kids were. After completion of their chanting for aero plane at top of their voice, now they started running in a circle.

One of them was perhaps the youngest and was not able to cope up with the speed of others. He fell down while turning in a circle. "Areyyy…" came out of my mouth. But he was busy enough to listen to my sympathetic words. He stood up on his own and again start running behind others, this time with more speed, waving his hands in air and blowing whistle. Perhaps he was trying to imitate aero plane that he just saw in the sky. Smile came on my face as well. Because I just recall my thoughts, I was thinking that I am lucky enough to invest my time in proper direction, because of which I can travel in AERO PLANE, but here that 2 years old kid is on the top of the world while being himself an AERO PLANE. He doesn’t know where he will land. He was just moving here and there waving his hands in air and making some whistling noise which resembles to aero plane engine.

Suddenly with a lighting strike my mind went blank. I was not able to hear anything but noise of those children. I can't see anything but a shining smile on their face. I can feel that their smile is not on their face, but it is straight from heart. I went back to my child hood. Now I can see myself with those children. They all were imitating aero plane, without knowing where they will land. Destination is completely unknown to them. It seems to me that it was just few days back, when I also used to shout and run like them. I still have those stickers having Disney characters on it. I still have that note pad which has different cartoon characters on it. I still have collection of colorful beads with me.

It seems that it was just few days before, when we all were busy in collecting dolls, marbles, stickers, etc. I remember those days when we used to visit mango tree garden and would climb on it to get raw mangoes. Those shouts of mom at dinner time, those excuses for not completing home work and lot many other things, for which this blog is not enough.

I came back to present. I advance my mind a bit. After few weeks I shall be getting married. I shall be part of completely new family. I don’t know what the future will be. I will be then with my God and my dearest would be hubby. There will be responsibilities. I shall be supposed to make their life smooth and easy going. Don’t know how successful I shall be in that. Sometimes I feel bit scared. But then I pray to my God, close my eyes and I remember his smiling face and don’t know why I feel stronger. I can face everything, if God’s blessings and his smile is with me. Amen