Had a great short vacation and visited so many relatives & friends!!!! Going to Baroda was always normal before but somehow nowadays I have started hating travelling. (Billa age, Billa age)This time I was really avoiding going to Gujarat side. (Well Kutch is also in Gujarat but that's how we say when we go to our native places) But my Foi...Jasumati...won't leave me alone, kept on calling and saying she is not well and not goanna survive more...ha ha....I am so familiar with those words...listening those words since well... ages and found her always not only in great health but in good spirit!!!But I had to go. I must go. She is a last Link, Solo connection of my father-side. She is the last survivor among 3 brothers & 3 sisters!!
Jasufoi...a dedicated & loyal little sister of my father. She has been with us constantly in good, bad and indifferent times. Being her in with my parents life....has made me & my sister always is questioned!!Whole life they have stayed together like friends, family & like any other relationships with many ups & down...Being center of my father's life she was a envy of so many!!She could get away with so many social crimes...only with my father's blessings known or unknown.....but she was a necessary part of our whole family. We had a joint family of two brothers living under one roof plus she living only 50 feet away. A vital part of our growing up!!
As usual I found her in not only good in health...but glowing more in her small but beautiful frame. I bought some Oranges.....a Orange, a Lemon Juice,(with Gluco-D),a multi-vitamin, a glass of milk....man I am forgetting a daily everything in a day in her life since I may remember my first step!!! She had told almost everyone in the neighborhood that my 'Bhatriji'(that’s me, ‘niece') is coming so the house was full...couldn't talked much...but in the night....we talked about almost everything....She always dwells on the past and the days gone by.....you listen to many repeated stories...which you want to defy, protest, like love, ignore, laugh, hate...but you won't out of respect. After promising I will come again to see her I departed. I know I will see her again.
I visited Ulhass's home too! A distant cousin, a childhood friend, a philosopher in his own ways & great admirer of my Father!!!!! He died at very crucial age when I was in the USA. Met wife & daughter, shattered, heartbroken & felt unjustified from Malik....I sat with them deeply pained. What to say? Nothing in the world can replaces the loss of near & dear ones and I can only express here only my deepest condolences and prayers to them. Sometimes we poor human beings won't understand, The Malik's ways of doings!!!!
But life moves on and shall move on!! That is how it has been willed by that Superior Unknown Force!!
love always billa driftwood.
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