Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Monday Morning Blues!

I know today isn't Monday so dont really tell me that! I wrote this on a bluesy Monday moment weeks ago. Felt like posting it. So here goes...
I was waiting for my bus to arrive. It would take me to office. Now if you know me personally then you would know that, such an occurrence is rare. I mean it’s not as if I had reached the bus stop early but that the bus was late. I belong to the category of people who bound like a hunting hound after buses that are sprinting away to their destination.
But today was different. I stood patiently with the Dave Matthews band playing through my head. As I heard “Where are you going?” I couldn’t help but laugh at the irony. And then I spied them, two kids with tiny bags, playing in a corner awaiting their pre-school bus.
One of them was taller, with a blue water bottle hanging around his neck. A cherubic grin adorned his little face. The other one was short, with a band aid on his head.
It was a curious game; they were trying to grab each others’ bags while going around in circles. No matter how hard the shorty tried he could never grab the taller one’s bag. I laughed at the silliness of it all and the simple joy that they derived out of it. Boy! They were happy, so radiantly happy that I missed being innocent. I missed being young, carefree, stupid and without responsibilities. A cagey sadness gripped me even as the song changed to Radiohead’s Lurgee.
Soon their bus arrived and they left while I pondered on…

3 comments:

Sudeep said...

Those were the days. To understand in the fullest sense that we would never again be back to those times, in that pure, infinite joy of childhood is to acknowledge a tragedy that is beyond what many can cope. We can say, "No, it's not really that bad" and we may be right but it is also true that what is gone is gone.

(I can imagine a joy similar to this but perhaps not quite the same, returning for brief periods of one's life - when one has a little baby!)

quasar said...

Of course my friend. I often wonder about this growing old thing and am still coming to terms with this phenomenon of growing up! Listen to sentimental by porcupine tree. they have done a nice job.

Anindita said...

I can so understand your plight.... Poor us.... :(