It’s been more than a year since I left my abode to find my space in the worldly waters. Time just flew by. It seems like just yesterday when mom, papa, anku and manku were hugging me at the airport, their eyes wet with emotion. It was a surreal moment. I didn’t know what to say to them. I didn’t know whether to thank mama n papa for the innumerable blessings they have bestowed me with. No, thank you would be too small a word. I didn’t know whether to tell them all “I will miss you”. No, that would make me break down. I just didn’t know what to say. So I just hugged them tight, as if trying to make them sit in my heart forever, so that I wont feel lonely in the new place I was going to.
While I was boarding the plane with papa, who was coming with me for a few days, I was numb. I was leaving the city where I was born, and where I had spent the last 8 years of my life, where I graduated, where I made the best of friends. I was leaving the home where I had spent the best times…where I had laughed with my family, where I had fought with my brother over the remote, where I had cried over the silliest of matters. I was going away from the sofa where I used to chat for hours on the phone with friends, from my PC where I used to spend the entire day sometimes…chatting and orkutting, with mama shouting at me from the kitchen to get my bournvita or my dinner. And now, I long to leave the computer at office, just to hear my mama calling me for dinner.
