I am not emotional...Well ! atleast I think I am not.I am the sort of guy who is always ready to pounce upon any opportunity to demonstrate this.Sometimes I succeed but most of the times I realise how ignorant I am of my own personality.
My father is an Army Officer(something I am very much proud of),and for a large part of my childhood my father was posted at the border.My sister ,mother and I stayed at what we call SF quarters (Seperated Families).Every year ,dad came home for 2 months.That was the best part of the year,cos' dad's arrival meant good food and lots of gift and most importanly,dad's presence.
Naturally ,it was my mother and sister, who were with me for a larger part of my life.Father was the special person who called us every morning from the "Field Area".
My mother is very fond of Bengali literature.Her fondness for literature was so fierce that by the time she was 15 ,she had already finished all Rabindra Nath Tagore that was available to her. Mind you , her parents both being teachers ,she indeed had a lot available .
However,me and my sister cannot read Bangla.
Our not knowing bangla made no difference to her.She was determined to make us know about OUR own culture.So ,in our summer vacations,in the afternoons ,she used to read out Rabindra Nath Tagore's short stories.Though I loved listening to her ,I really hated the stories.Almost every Rabindra Nath's story ended with either a death or a separation,so, I never listened to them.But my mother cried reading them and I could not make out why.
My sister is three years elder to me.She is F A T...just like every body else in the family.We have to shift every two or three years so I never really had an opportunity to make very good friends.I made one though.She fights,I irritate so that she fights.My favourite activity is to irritate her .She knows this.Yet she fights.May be to please me.
My father is a tall ,dark not so handsome guy.He has his philosophy for every possible thing on earth.I wonder how he knows so much.He is a motivator,a leader and has an immaculate ability to yell.Someone told me,it takes 7 years,8 months of yelling to produce the same energy required to heat a cup of coffee.He surely has heated 2 or probably 3 cups by now.But he is cute.I know CUTE is a rather a rude word to describe an Army Man,but he is cute and I really cannot help it.
We are in Nashik ,for the time being.But we are leaving on 3rd July .We are going to Kolkata.My sister is taking her admission in Army Institute of Management,Kolkata.
With her joining AIM,our moments of being 2(4)gether,for the last time slowly ticks away.
May be now I know why my mother cried reading those stories.
There is something ,that is getting lost with her departure,her separation.
It is the Loss Of WE