Unfoldinglokesh

It’s been ages since I have written anything over here. So here it goes, It was precisely a year & half, the day I come to know about Saaransh. Saransh is a kid with cuteness overloaded. His family resides in the suburb of Chandigarh. A kid with such a cute smiling that you simply cannot ignore it no matter how hard hearted you might be. He is like a cute kitten with such a soft gesture and smile at that time. The persona and aura of saaransh’s personality was as such that I could not resist myself from naming him as Awwwwww. Why I named him awwwww? I named him awwww because that this is what you generally do when you confront or see pictures of cute kids. It was the first reaction I came up with at that time and still felt that sensation till date. That’s why he is awwww to me.

I tried to catch up with Saaransh so many times in the past but it was not in history book. Whether, it was due to excessive tight work schedule or due to frequent traveling within state. It was not possible to meet him in person. I wished how come I meet with such a cutie. But it is rightly said somewhere that , “ If you want something really to happen, all the cosmic energy(kayanat) conspires it to make it happen and actually it did.

All the prayers to meet with Saaransh were answered on 11^th April 2015. I finally met him, I felt so much contented with myself. In urge to meet him, I woke up quite early in the morning, even alarm clock failed to catch me up on that. It was brisk dark black outside when I set out for this odyssey. Journey of eight hours to reach at Chandigarh and further two hours of commute to reach Kharrar, still there was no sign of tiredness. It felt nice to enjoy this journey along with some soft rock music and old classic tracks of Lata ji and Rafi sahib.

As I have inquired some facts about this township so it was not a very difficult task to find locate the place. Little bit of R&D and I reached at Gilco valley. Voila, in first impression it felt like another township like suburb of Mohali.

There was bit of hesitation to meet Saaransh’s family as I have never met them before. It happened usally as a feeling of being a stranger. Feeling of being acquaintance to someone, whom you have not met before in your life and you confront them all of sudden but all doubts and all the hullabaloo inside my mind came to an end, when Priyanka D, mother of Saaransh opened the door. The door of Awww :) , Yes, my heart pondered for fraction of seconds. All of the doubts were vanished in the blink of an eye. She greeted with such generosity that I was feeling humble and indebted to such warm reception.

It was a warm reception indeed. Usual here and there discussions were going on unless, Priyanka D brought that little fellow in front of me. Awwwwwwww he was so cute, so little and so so so cute. Words are not enough here to describe the feeling, I felt. He was on her shoulder, lumping back to hide but gradually after sometime he became the one who he is, the real Saaransh . All the emotions and feelings I conjugated during the year, came to saturation point. It felt so unreal to me. I asked myself, am I dreaming? Am I drunk or am I out of senses? But soon I realized that yes, it was happening for real. He is right there, right there in front of my eyes, so small yet so cute and yes of course equipped with that killer smile. Once again, I was flattened by his smile and his persona. All that awww chanting, awww facts, awwww wishes came back to live.

He had an orange T-shirt with checkered shorts and that pony of hair(Awww prabhu ki choti). If you can mark my words , his pony can be a cult. I wished , I could have that kind of hair style now. The T shrit was having “Monkey” written on it, ha ha ha indeed but it suites his personality. Saaransh embraced me like a friend, like a kid, like a pal. Gradually he started playing with me , Saaransh took everything I had except my purse ;) , Here a saying goes like this “ when I was a child, I talked like a child, I Played like a child, when I became a man, I put the way of childhood behind me” this saying symbolizes our daily life. After meeting with awwww, this sounded true to me. We must cherished our time, our kids and especially childhood :).

I asked several questions which were in my mind, about him, how its been with him and about his sleep cycle, his play time , his vaccination and all that stuff. Priyanaka D gently replied back to all those queries/questions. Somya, Saaransh’s elder brother met with a sense of warm gratitude.

Saaransh always had reminded me of my childhood.The way kids are growing in this modern era is amazing. You feel astonished and surprised how did they do that with such an ease. As time flew by, it was hard to leave him like this. I wished time would have slowed down more than that. Every minute spent with him felt like millions of seconds. I wished that time should have slowed it down more than that. Time spent with Saaransh gave me immense pleasure which I can relate the joy felt by a farmer when first drop of rain touched his face and his fields. Such little joys are like treasures of life, which I will gladly continue to collect during my endeavor of life.

After all that I finally decided to bid adieu to such cute and warm hearted family. I offered my homage and gratitude to awww family. In the end it was a great journey, it took me almost nine hours to reach at Mandi, but after all this , how one can feel tiresome and drained. I wish them all the happiness & cuteness. I will be in touch with you awwww don’t you worry child J !!! god bless you and your family. Amen to that :) :)

Your disciple,

Lokesh Chandel

Planet:- Earth

Date:-13-04-2015

Place:- Mandi Himachal Pradesh