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A daily blog

I always wonder at people who manage to write daily blogs in spite of their business.

I will try and write one too…

Title : A day in the life of ….

Early mornings are for the birds and not us humans.

We slog, we party even harder, have dinners in the mornings and then go CRASH!

I hate the first rays of sunlight falling on my face whenever I am at home.

I love the first rays of sunlight enveloping me with its arrival, whenever I am outdoors.

I hate the early morning banter of normal humans, housewives, mothers, career women, assembling for a ritual breakfast before they proceed further to their daily grind.

My two year something old tugs at me and I look at her with ‘refusing to open” eyes. She puts a missing pillow underneath my head and walks back to her next spontaneous routine. I stare and wonder at the thoughtfulness emitting out from her.

I try to get back to sleep. But I know that I won’t because the thought process for the day has begun.

Every morning, the only reason to get up has been a hearty breakfast.

Right from my childhood days, when Ma rolled the chappatis to be picked up right from the tawa atop a kerosene run stove.

Everything has changed now. The kid, the young mother, the cracked koba floor, the tiny kitchen of the one room house and the kerosene run stove.

A much needed shower after some reflecting ablution.

And work begins.

After  work finishes at some hour of the evening, the only reason to live for another day is a cold pint of beer and another. And maybe another. The first sip of the civilization’s second born liquid passing through the mind and the heart (or is it the heart and the mind) with tingling delight, gathering renewal.

The last and the only reason to head towards home hurriedly and with dollops of guilt is to hope and meet my precious one at the door shouting “Hey! Papa, Papaa  ClapClapClap”

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