Well, that day, i can hardly remember.. cuz i was very small.. 'Small' in the sense that i was just born, only 1 DAY old. It was that day, my mom and dad were blessed with a child so sweet, so cute and so handsome... let me not boast further,, was ME.
Now when i think back, i get faint images of my grandma and a lot of other people fighting for a chance to get a glimpse of me.. Were i so special?? God knows.. Only if somebody had shown me on a mirror, would i have been able to tell you exactly how i looked then. There was someone in bed trying to get some sleep but couldn't, as she was very excited and scared to hell that someone would mishandle the delicate creature she'd given birth to. I figured out that it was my MOM. Okay, i was with her all these months, but had never got a chance to see her face to face. Thanks to someone in the room who showed me to her. Someone else had done it earlier, but i was really busy crying..
Now, where had my dad gone?? Is it the one sitting in the corner with a newspaper?? No, he can't be, he's too old to be my dad, that was my Grandpa.
Then, i heard someone saying 'achan' meaning father. I don't know how i knew the meaning, but i knew it... I guess we're preprogrammed to understand two words, "amma" and "achan", as soon as we're born.
My little marble like eyes scanned the whole room for someone as excited as my mom. Gotcha!! There he was, sweating from running up the stairs but still smiling like the beautiful angel who had dropped me from an unknown place some months ago... His inexperienced hands took me and he kissed me... Had my mom kissed me?? I guess she must have.., I must have been sleeping then.
But anyway, i knew that everyone had kissed me on that day and that i was adored and accepted in their world.
I had no idea, what i were to do next. I couldn't understand a word they said, except for "achan" and "amma" which the people said a million times. And each time someone said those words, I could see the pride on my parents' face. They had become a "DAD and MOM". And I was their SON..
