We are all in different parts of the country. Yet, there is something that keeps us close to one another. We may not mail each other long letters describing the days we are having. Yet, we know each other well enough. We don't feel out of touch. We don't feel awkward when we suddenly buzz each other. I guess thats what makes the relationship special and all the more stronger. We go through phases of mocking each other and pun prodding. We have songs for each other and each occasion. One such occasion is coming up and that day, for sure, I'll be in withdrawal.
Holi is despised by many, but I guess being a deviant in every way, thats why I love it. I love the colours, the water, the dirt, the filth and the utter chaos. I love the way all differences are erased. Rather, coloured by shades of similarity. They might be temporary, but for just that moment we are indistinguishable. There is a sense of unity that prevails and runs like the coloured water between us. We soak in it and breathe it.
The aftermath is obviously the most painful, as we rush to occupy bathing cubicles, hoping and praying hard for a continuous supply of tap water. Some are lucky, while some, well... the less said the better. Famished stomachs gorge on food ordered from places that deliver the fastest. Tired and exhausted, one gets the most beautiful sleep post all this. Oblivious to the outer world, one sleeps in peace. Absolute.
I won't be going through all this, this year. But, somewhere in my heart I will be reliving every moment of it all through the day. I might be found smiling on the road randomly. Don't be horrified, for I would have just remembered a joke/ a fall/ a poke/ a splash. I might hop-skip-jig all of a sudden at the thought of a song we'd sung probably a hundred times. Screamed our lungs out breathless.
I think I might be found in an asylum soon. I don't sound normal, do I.
Colour me and my world.
My hearts alight and my vision blurred.
4 comments:
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I totally understand what you meant... There are special days and certain occasions when you prefer to like your life in the rewind mode more so because you are absolutely convinced that the present has nothing really present-worthy to gift you on these specific days...
:) Rightly said so.
Friends. Sigh. The little joys in our lives.
I am not fan of holi. I think it is messy. God, I sound like my mom. I knew that would happen sometime (me sounding like my mom) but I never thought it would happen so soon.. ;-)
:D I go through that sometimes. Think like my mom and realise its probably too soon for it :)
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