My Form Continues
I continued with my journey of life and we moved to "Chennai" this time. My brother was coming to terms with life, parents obviously treated us alike and he was missing the royal care that he was getting from my grand parents. I think it was hard on him also but he adjusted well with the circumstances.
For the first time in my life, I enjoyed the company of my brother. We played together and enjoyed each and every bit of togetherness. Appreciation from my school poured in for my studies, sports, clay molding and for everything I did. I fell in love with Physics and my teacher was very keen on me taking up higher studies in Physics. I was nick named "Physics Guru" of the school and I used to deliver lectures on science day in our school. I was studying in my 9th class at that time and was at my peak of my school career.
We (myself and brother) made friends and lot of friends in and around our colony. We soon became an indispensable part of the colony and everyone wanted to make friendship with us. But, when we thought that the life would bring only good things, my father got a new job in "Jabalpur", deep in north India and we had to move. At that point of time, all that we could think was living in North India, just the thought of moving to new place and seeing new things excited us. We left behind a battalion of our friends notably Kannan, Balaji, Raja, Sivaram, Shyam, Ravi, Haran, Suji, Subha and Sumi.
Though we were going mad with joy at that time, now we regret. We regret for we lost touch with our friends, we regret because we were thrown to a different environment and we had to start everything from scratch. Even now, when I get a chance to go to Chennai, I make it a point to visit my friends but now it's a different story. Some in US, some married and some studying abroad. I don't know how they look like now and I don't think we would be able to re-unite as a whole gang.
I am determined that I would never do this to my kids, I will never un-settle them. A valuable lesson learnt in the 'Journey of a thousand mile'.
Reach me at hifromsriram 'at' hotmail 'dot' com
I continued with my journey of life and we moved to "Chennai" this time. My brother was coming to terms with life, parents obviously treated us alike and he was missing the royal care that he was getting from my grand parents. I think it was hard on him also but he adjusted well with the circumstances.
For the first time in my life, I enjoyed the company of my brother. We played together and enjoyed each and every bit of togetherness. Appreciation from my school poured in for my studies, sports, clay molding and for everything I did. I fell in love with Physics and my teacher was very keen on me taking up higher studies in Physics. I was nick named "Physics Guru" of the school and I used to deliver lectures on science day in our school. I was studying in my 9th class at that time and was at my peak of my school career.
We (myself and brother) made friends and lot of friends in and around our colony. We soon became an indispensable part of the colony and everyone wanted to make friendship with us. But, when we thought that the life would bring only good things, my father got a new job in "Jabalpur", deep in north India and we had to move. At that point of time, all that we could think was living in North India, just the thought of moving to new place and seeing new things excited us. We left behind a battalion of our friends notably Kannan, Balaji, Raja, Sivaram, Shyam, Ravi, Haran, Suji, Subha and Sumi.
Though we were going mad with joy at that time, now we regret. We regret for we lost touch with our friends, we regret because we were thrown to a different environment and we had to start everything from scratch. Even now, when I get a chance to go to Chennai, I make it a point to visit my friends but now it's a different story. Some in US, some married and some studying abroad. I don't know how they look like now and I don't think we would be able to re-unite as a whole gang.
I am determined that I would never do this to my kids, I will never un-settle them. A valuable lesson learnt in the 'Journey of a thousand mile'.
Reach me at hifromsriram 'at' hotmail 'dot' com
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