A moment to pause! (By Mohamed Irfan)
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Dear
Readers fasten your belt and I would be taking you all with time-machine of
imagination not to the future but to my past.
It
was winter, the month of December, and the year 2010. I am anxious to meet
someone special. This was after 2 weeks (grabbing the much-awaited weekend), I
am returning to my home at my hometown Trichy from my workplace at Bangalore
after an overnight journey. I am hurrying up to reach my home faster so as my
breath. She is waiting.
The
"someone special" was my new bride whom I was missing day and night
24x7. Just 3 weeks old marriage had lot of surprises in the future. So
now, I reached the door of my house. Pressed the calling bell. No one answered.
I waited and again pressed the calling bell. No one answered. I saw the door
was slightly open. I was frightened thinking what has happened. I opened the
door slowly and entered my way inside. It was unusually calm and quiet.
Suddenly someone barked behind me and I turned my back for a moment of shock.
Oh Alas! She is such a kid, playing hide and seek. She laughed and I laughed.
She welcomed me and we hugged but least I knew that there was another shock awaiting.
I sat for a while in living room and then moved towards my bedroom to get
refreshed and change but before I could do so I was shocked at what I saw. I
could not believe my eyes. The only thing I could utter was "what a...
where am I".. "this is not my room!" (totally confused).
My
gadgets were not in the usual place. My cloths and books were not scattered.
Each and everything were neatly arranged and well organized. Gadgets had their
own place and my books enjoyed their own private space. My shirts ironed were
hanging with a pride as if they are for the “Mr. President”. The bedroom
decorated like a bride was aromatic I still remember. My bachelor room was
dirty mess worth not to be mention but all of a sudden, it was as if I am
hesitating to enter the paradise. "Is there any alien in my house? Who
hijacked my room?" (mind voice). "My room is not mine now?"
(frightened). Oh God! that was a feeling not explainable. It took several days
and months to understand that it was not hijack of my room but it was a luxury
provided by someone so unconditional always. It was a privilege to learn the
lesson on how to live from however you live.
Days
passed, months and then years but I missed to realize. There were many
occasions when I paused to see back my journey but I never realize one thing.
Bringing you all readers back from the past to present I remember how
undisciplined I was and how I was transforming but forgot to thank the
"someone so special". I was growing but she was melting. I was just
consuming and she was just sharing. It was not an easy journey of life, though
it was all about my growth but she never complained. This is that moment I must
pause. I must thank my wife for not an event not but a congregate of several
events of silent effort and for taking my journey as hers and making it
beautiful. It was not the room that she had decorated but it was my life.
The
very first relationship God created was this love between Adam and Eve and all
the other relationship was just born out of it. Women are great lovers no
doubt!
Folks I wish all the women who take the effort to make
the world lovable place. And, to men I urge to walk your wife’s ambitions as
yours.
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