Monday, October 31, 2011

From the archives – My writings to myself – about motherhood, wife-hood , in love, about marriage and more – I




Just discovered these and posting it on instinct

Joys of motherhood:
  
One Monday night , 11.30
Now I was laughing with my chottu for more than an hour. He s a real ‘cartoon’. Thank God, he seem to have the right amount of common sense mixed with the right proportion of humour sense. I tell him a lot of stories and after a while he starts acting out the main roles in the story. Today looked like his Krishna day, he is calling me 'Yasodha Amma' and is "stealing" butter (and even jam) from the fridge (modern Krishna) eating it and asking me to chase and catch him. Then he would drink milk from the cow(guess whom he makes his cow) and lots more of masthi. We were laughing so much in the bed and then Big Master would remind us about the time. I told him that we are ordinary humans who don't care to see the clock to laugh and cry. He got bugged and pretended to sleep. Then chottu started imitating how his daddy will snore and we started rolling in the bed covering our faces with pillows and laughing into it. Finally a big blast of laughter followed by comments from the father like "both amma and son had gone out of mind" etc. Finally chottu went to sleep and I woke up the father to tell him that I m going out to read. He just stretched his hand to hug me and I also waited for a while. Suddenly smally came crawling, pushed his father away, and told me that he will bite Achan, if he tries to touch me and we started our laughter again. Father was fed up with the entire session and decided to sleep again. Now that my monu dear has slept, I strolled out to scribble the fun. That was one of my happy times.

Another  Tuesday morning.
Small Boss refused to go to school and I also felt bad to sent him when I am available for him. We had a joyful time playing and story telling. I started telling him the childhood stories of 'Naren', Vivekananda and he is familiar now with the name.

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Infatuation
This afternoon, I was reading …. Narendranath Datha, the one and only Vivekananda, my admiration figure. How much I admire this man…. I had even prayed that I get a   son like Vivekananda. I had stayed in Hyderabad for 6 months, when my brother had an accident and he was hospitalized in NIMS, where there was a junior doctor. who looked so much like Vivekanada, who also carried a Bhagavat Gita in his coat pocket… I confess that I got so fascinated with this man(with whom I've never talked, and he might not have even noticed me, a girl of 21 at that time) that I used to wait for him to visit our room, had dreamt about him and even made silent phone calls to him to hear his voice.

Whispers in love
Let me tell you very honestly, given a chance I will definitely kiss your eyes and touch them softly so that I will remember them very well any time I want to. I love u because u look at me and look into my soul. Because you can make  me laugh even when u r not next to me. Because u are my Krishna.. …………            
Only if you can imagine the eternal, non ending, non failing and the purest love one can have towards Krishna, you can understand my love for u….


Loving in my each breath, that s what I m doing now my rascal. Have I ever loved any one so blindly, so meaningfully, so madly, so joyfully, so unconditionally, so childishly and yet so painfully? Positive, the earth is ours, the sky too….

(there is a Part II - dont want to tax the readers!)

9 comments:

  1. I become you when I read you, your jottings have this power to transcend your readers into your world.
    Loved it, waiting for the next part.

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  2. One more thing, I feel so connected to you right now, want to tell you I love you.

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  3. Its like reading one of my fav books at random, smiling all the way, knowing exactly the way it turns out.. :) lovely!

    Ur infactuations, reminds me of a woman so close to me, my mom.. I would never understand the way she feels about Krishna or Vivekananda.. (yes.. she adores one and admires another!) She makes us visit Guruvayur every year, and made us study in vivekananda school.. :) she says there is something captivating in his (naren's) eyes, that we can stand all day just looking..

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  4. Myriad faces of womanhood...marriage, motherhood, infatuations, untold secrets, silent desires...I have just felt a wave of your oceanic soul...each part tickled me...motherhood is something that fascinates me so much even from my early teens. I done know...the very thought itself gives me a taste of completeness...(something that prompts me to even think of marriage as a need). And your scribbles on that is so effervescent with that lovely experience! Thanks for sharing it:-)

    Infatuation! You sound so much like me...My infatuations were numberless to tell you the truth! And this one is damn interesting! Even reminded me of Kamala Das(many a times I felt that similarity in here with your thoughts) But then Kamal Das is every woman or every woman is a Kamal Das deep in their Psyche:-)

    The part that most elated me is "Whispers in Love"! The poetry in it was so gentle that it wafted a kind of reverie which floods with "love,love and love"!

    Very much eager for the II part! Lots of love:)

    "Let me tell you very honestly, given a chance I will definitely kiss your eyes and touch them softly so that I will remember them very well any time I want to. I love u because u look at me and look into my soul."
    ...how did you weaved such penetrating lines Pygma? You must be so horribly in love (if "horrible" sounds not so "terrible"!

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  5. Smee I am so glad that u embrace me with your love and even more glad to know that u become me through my words.. thanks a lot and love you dear

    KP hey your mom has a great choice;)
    She is right, I have never seen a brilliant face than Naren's and his eyes are indeed captive.. Love to your mom .. and thnx a lot dear KP for the encouragement..love you

    Nasneen, what do I say? Even I was thrilled with the idea of motherhood from teens.. i had made a booklet with baby pictures stuck on it with my own captions.. one was ' a dream come true' and used to rest my head on the desk and keep looking at that picture and imagine me on a bed with my baby next to me:)
    Regarding being in love.. I am never intensive enough is my analysis.. a 'horrible' lover I should say, but love makes me write better:)
    Thanks dear, and I corrected a spelling, looking at your comment..love ya
    And true Kamala Das is in every woman ..

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  6. It is nice one....congrats

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  7. @pgy, playing with son, the jam + makhhan story, the doctor, the randomness, the sheer pleasure of being a woman that you have posted here... made me smile...

    these from your journal? <3

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  8. I just wanted to put this (!), and that is not just an exclamation mark but a single sign with 1000 words and emotions, then one line ensnared me...

    ... and yet so painfully?

    so .. i thought of writing a line...
    now... i cant write that line..
    am i spell - bound?

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  9. Thanks sidhu

    Chintan, knowing that you smiled, brings a smile to my face too:)
    yes from my journal (inbox to self)

    Parvanam: what a lovely comment.. the poet in you was restless..I could sense.. I am truly glad:)

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