In Search of Solace

I am exhausted and tired...wish to go away far ....somewhere very far... Away from continuous office calls, pings and e-mails...This much technology was not enough that my colleagues have started messaging about work on SMS and whatsapp also...

I badly need a gate away from all these...I want some ME time....

In search of solace.....I closed my eyes....

My mind wondered where to go....where to take this girl so that she can find some inner peace...her so called "ME" time...

but still it tried to help me....!!!

The next moment, I was running on a sleek road on a sunny afternoon...I looked up to find out the clear blue sky....My tiny little hands were holding some tamarind popsicles which I had just bought after spending 25 paisa..My messy hair which was oiled and neatly tied up in the morning by Maa is now all over my face again...My clean green frock is not clean any more, all thanks to my friends from other lane ...I can see my house on the other side of the road...painted yellow with some flower pots near the gate...these are the pots which were bought few days back by my gardener Mom. Next to those pots, my dad's scooter is parked...I started running towards my home....But...

Oh wait...

Dad is home!!!..how can he be home so soon?

I can't enter my house now. My not-so-clean look may ire my dad....In fear of getting beaten up, I changed my direction and went straight inside Maain's(aunt) house..Hers is a house just opposite to ours with a small white gate....She had just finished cleaning the cow shed then and was preparing to feed the cows. Seeing me she smiled, while I was restlessly explaining her my situation on how to get inside my home. She washed her hand and started detangling my messed up hairs with a smiling face. I was bit assured that I am gonna be all fresh and clean in next 10 mins. The anxiousness in face had now started to disappear...I was more relaxed. Seems the solace I was searching for, is here at this moment.By the time she finished rearranging me, I heard the voice of the icecream man shouting "Kulfi..kulfi". I sprung from her lap and started running towards the door to get hold of a kulfi....my hairs which were combed and still in her hands went loose and I was a total mess again....

I opened my eyes....I am back to this world...I am away from the peaceful world which I had just experienced...which is miles apart or can say decades apart.....My moist eyes couldn't hold those 2 drops and they had to roll down my cheeks...

Just at that moment I heard someone shouting far away..

Kulfi...Kulfi...

Seems I have got the chance to live the moment again... I ran towards the door again with my messy hair and moist eyes..and a slowly beaming face....

Leaving my parents wondering what happened to this girl again..

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This time 25 years apart!!!!!!

In search of solace…...........