What do you do when you miss your family, your partner or your girlfriend?
In all probability, you would right away call them up or text them on Whatsapp.
But what do you do when you are at work and you miss your 2 year old sweetheart
son who at that point in time is in his nursery? You can neither call him nor
text him (albeit for few more years, till this new gen kid as well demands for a
smartphone J), all you
could do is just helplessly wait for the day to end.
It’s certainly not a very good feeling and at times you really wish
that you could search for your son’s contact on the Whatsapp contact list and drop
him a ‘miss you’ text. And this
feeling is highly exaggerated when your kid has recently started talking and
you excitedly wait whole day to hear me blabber in his heavy British accent. So
cow now is ‘couw’, bear is ‘beaa’,
car is ‘caa’, no is ‘nou’ , Jai Shree Ram is ‘Jey Shee Ram’, and potty is ‘yucky potty’. And this extremely funny
and cute blabbering is on endlessly.
It’s quite contrasting though, that not too long ago I used to find these
continuously chattering kids in a bus, train or a movie theatre very annoying. Though
today when Gabbu does the same
publicly, it’s hardly annoying, in fact it seems cute and funny, much to the
annoyance of other bystanders, I am sure. Love is blind they say J.
But children do learn very fast and at this age what they pick the
quickest is to greet everyone with ‘Hi’s’
and ‘Byes’. But it gets really embarrassing
when Gabbu vociferously greets
strangers with his newly learned ‘Hi ya’s’
and ‘Byes’ in the lift, bus or
tubes. And the situation gets such that even the usually snobbish locals have
to reciprocate to his greetings with a reluctant Hi or Bye J. A good
cue to break ice with those gorgeous English ladies, may be J. But this Hi Bye syndrome has another funnier side
too. Whenever he continuously persists for something that I don’t want him to
buy or have, I tend to tell him that it is finished. For e.g. if he endlessly persists
for Kinder Joy or say Garlic Bread, I say ‘No Avyaan it’s finished’. So in turn
what he does now is every time we go past Dominos, he keeps on saying ‘Bye Garlic Bread’, ‘Bye Dominos’,
assuming its already finished and same with Kinder Joy on passing through
Tesco, ‘Bye Tesco’, ‘Bye Kinder Joy’ J.
And it keeps on getting funnier. Not too long ago Gabbu’s mom apparently
spent a lot of time in the kitchen cooking something really sumptuous. She
excitedly gave the first serving to him and expectantly asked him ‘how is it Gabbu?’ I doubt anybody could
have given a much blatant response to such a question. He replied, saying ‘its yucky’, that’s not all he kept on singing
it for 5 minutes, ‘it’s yucky’, ‘it’s
yucky’, ‘it’s yucky’, ‘it’s yucky’ J. And by doing so the newbie speaker managed to do something
that even his dad couldn’t dare to do in so many years.
And there is something funny or the other that keeps happening every
day. In fact, these are the moments you look forward to after a stressful day
at work or post an unwarranted tiff with someone very dear. These experiences
are blissful, rejuvenating and reminiscent of the fact that how simple, easy
and happy life can be. But for me the best moment of the day is when I go to
pick him up from his nursery in the evening, that smile, that exhilaration on
his face when he sees me coming, greets me with his accented ‘Hi ya’ and runs towards me to give a
cuddle is truly priceless. It evades all the stress and emphasizes on the fact
that whatever good or bad the world may think of me, at least he is the one who
really waits for my arrival with such exuberance and anticipation every single
day J. Unconditional love!
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