Lost and Found

As a child I was talkative, chatter box or whatever you call it, well this character of mine still remains with me :)
I was just 4 years young and was returning with my mom from uncle’s place, my mom would always insist to hold her hand tightly so that I don’t vanish anywhere like an angel... I remember it was raining heavily and unfortunately we did not have umbrella with us, as it was a shower which was unexpected, yes that’s how it is in Bangalore, but I love it...

My mother was struggling to hold me in one hand and carrying my brother in her arms, she had a tough time managing both of us, the bus stops was filled by people and there was hardly any shelter for us to protect from the rain, luckily we got our bus and my mother urged me to climb first and she will follow after me, I promptly listened to her and did as she told and to my dismay the bus left before my mom could get in with my little brother in her arms.

I did not know where the bus was taking me or what I should be doing, and I did not even know how to get back to mom, I just went and stood next to the driver, I started hitting him for having left my mom and started showing my anger and vengeance on him. A young man in his early twenties seemed to have understood my situation, came to me held me in his arms and told ‘don’t worry baby you will reach your mom I will help you’. Whatever he told didn’t make any sense to me but I could just understand that I would see my mom soon. This young man held me tight in his arms and took me to a nearby police station and both the policeman and this young man had a talk for a while and he wrote something in a paper and came to me and told’ this uncle will help you to reach your mom, don’t worry and he left’.

Soon the police was asking about my whereabouts and my personal details, I remember replying to them very promptly with my hands folded, the way he was asking me questions reminded me of my teacher at school and without my knowledge my hands were folded and I was sitting straight and giving the reply. My mom on the other hand got into an auto and tried to follow me, but since it was raining heavily, a tree lost its balance and it just fell down right there in front on my mom’s auto, my mom later called up my dad and informed everything and it since it was impossible for her to move around with my little brother she reached home with lot of worries in her mind and my thoughts in heart and praying to god that i should be safe.

It was easy for the police to get in touch with my dad since he was also in the same department; I heaved a sigh of relief when I saw my dad in the station to take me back home. I just hugged my dad tightly, the police who was helping me told my dad ‘your daughter is really sweet and smart, any kid in this situation would have cried and wouldn’t t have answered to our questions, but your daughter did not cry...

I didn’t understand that he was complimenting me at that tender age, I just smiled and told’ thank you uncle for helping me’. Guess what my dad took me straight to a sweets shop we bought lot of sweets and left home, I was so happy to see my mom just jumped with joy and gave her a big tight hug and kissed her like never before. I was re-united with my parents and this was the way I was lost and found :)

Little things make up life

Well, tomorrow has been another day…
Many a time, there comes a point in life where you start to wonder what your purpose in this world is & if you’ve been able to go towards or touch even the surface of what you set out to accomplish. On a cold Saturday early morning of June 16th, exactly 9516 days ago I was born into this big beautiful world. There has been an abundance of all the elements that make up life in my life too. There have been good times & there have been testing times….
Recently I completed 30 posts on my blog ‘When My Thought Meet Yours’(http://nanmith.blogspot.com/) and when I posted it, and added some lines to it, I started understanding how lucky I am to have lived those moments & been able to count those moments & capture them. Its so easy in the rigmarole of life, to let these small little things that make up our life pass right under our nose… some of the best moments of our life… but sooner or later we realize that these are some of the special moments that make our life what it is… sometimes I feel a deep sense of gratitude, some nostalgia, sometimes inspiration, sometimes pure peace and some making me laugh.
* catch the first rays of the sun in the new millennium
* getting up in the early hours of the morning
* touching the morning dew that has settled on a flower
* walking in the mist & letting it engulf you
* the smell of the forest & the smell of the earth before it rains
* walking in the rain, looking up to the skies & seeing the small drops fall on you
* watching a flower bloom & smelling the aroma of nature
* sunset in the snow-clad mountains, watching the color change from pure white to burning charcoal
* starry night with the moon looking like a pearl mountains against the violet sky....
Life is a basket of emotions, happiness resides everywhere and in everything, its upto us to realise that and live our life to the fullest extent not missing out the little enjoyments of life.