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 11th 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
