The Reunion……

I was so excited when dad said that he will arrange for a vehicle to go to my dad’s ancestral home. It’s after nearly two years that I am going back there, to the place where I grew up. It was such a strange feeling. After half an hour’s journey we reached there and when I got down from the vehicle suddenly I realized the beauty of silence that I had never even noticed when I used to live there. But a lot of things have changed since we have left the place, nearly all the houses where empty and our ancestral home was very badly maintained. It was very painful to see that beautiful house in such a bad condition. But there wasn’t much that I could do about it.

Still there was a lot to look forward to there was the huge pond and the beautiful gopuram along the temple. When I saw the pond, there was nothing in my mind I just broke free and took a dive into the cold water. It was after nearly two years that I got a chance to do this. There is no way that I am going to miss it this time. It felt like heaven, never before have I enjoyed so much. The feeling of belonging was simply awesome…

I spent nearly an hour there swimming from one end to another. All my memories of the place were coming back to my mind and it felt like I have been there even yesterday even though it’s been years since we have left that place. There is nothing more relaxing than lying in the pond looking at the sky with nothing to worry about. Even if you have some tensions you will simply forget them when you are there. And suddenly it started raining as if it was receiving me to the place where my soul belongs.

After a good nice session in the pond I went to the gopuram to spend the rest of the time there before it gets dark. Sitting there I wanted to see the sunset as I had on countless evenings of my childhood. But may be luck was not on my side because of the rain earlier the sky was cloudy and it was only getting darker, the sun was not visible.

So half heartedly I had to leave, only knowing that it’s to here I will always return because its here that my soul belongs…………..