The map that got me thinking!

Can`t stop beaming at the ‘Google Map’ I just received from my cousin. I have tried this before but have never got this close to seeing my house, all mapped out. I have been looking at it from the time I received it. After each article I write I don’t want to take a break, instead all I want to do is sit and stare at the map showing my abode.

Nostalgic may not be the appropriate word, although I feel it has been ages since I went home. There are so many memories attached to the place I will always call my home, more so post marriage. From being mommy`s lil girl to shouldering the responsibilities that come with marriage, I must confess the journey has been natural.

I now miss home like never before, the little stream by the side of the garden and my pet canines. The smell of the soil in Coorg when it pours, the croaking of frogs by the stream and the incessant power cuts during monsoon, remind me how I long to be there. Someone once asked me, when I was really happy. Well I did not have to think much. I was the happiest in class ten when I left hostel to go back home and enroll in a school nearby.

I always knew I would miss home, well everybody does, but never knew that I was capable of actually thinking over it so much that I would want to write about it. There is a thought that constantly hounds me. It may seem silly for anyone reading this. But illogical as it may seem, I believe I want to walk back in time and relive those moments that now seem, gone forever.

I wish I could be younger and free to make mistakes. Sometimes I wonder why life should be such a tough trainer. I mean we can be allowed a preparatory platform before we actually take up the mains.

Although I have outgrown my school uniform, I believe that some things which I want unchanged will remain so. Like the stream that does not forget to flow, the green and brown frogs that do not give up croaking or the cricket that fills up the forest with all the funny noise it makes.

The cry in the wilderness could either be of victory, love or passion. It could denote anguish or ignorance. My platter is too full for a guessing game right now. What the unflinching noises of the cricket and frog connote, well maybe I could find out after another test!