A JOURNEY DOWN THE MEMORY LANE

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It was a saturday after noon when i got the message and rushed from office.It was some 25 years back .

I had the first look.At this time i could not exactly recall the feelings which i had then,But i remembered heaving a sigh of relief.I was not knowing then that this relief is going to revisit me often during my life journey.

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it was the vijayadasami day, 5 years later.Both me and my wife have been preparing ourselves as to how to prepare our selves for the event and how to handle should there be cries/tears.Then came the surprise.He just went in, with out even batting an eye lid or even turning back to wave at us.Again a sigh of relief...

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It was an year later at school day celebrations,Fancy dress competition.A cute smart child takes the audience by storm, by walking onto dais, with calm eyes in saffron cloth and declares in a serene and firm voice 'SARVO JANA SUGINO BHAVANTHU".It was probably an indication of events that are to follow wherein the role of wiping the tears of others by being emphatetic to cause of others , is going to be witnessed.This time it is a sigh of pride..


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15 YEARS LATER.Airport at Hongkong.It was a wait since morning.The air craft arrived about an hour ago and still no trace .Anxieties keep building up.No way to enquire and find out.Then when the unnecessary fears and anxities almost reach the point of blowing up, the big screen out side the arrival lounch indicates arrival, and then follows another sigh of relief.Heavens open to rejoice and down pours last almost thru the journey from airport to City.

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It was a holiday in chennai , and a septemeber evening.Through a chat over the computer (which used to be on and often),comes a message wallowing in self grief, but clearly indicating the firm decison rising out of pain of doing some thing which is not to the liking.The pain, when shared gets released and then follows relief..

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It was 3 years later.A message awaits at the office that there will be an event to reward the outstanding graduates. Office routine prevents any luxury or even a freedom to attend such important event.It was excatly a week later the photograph depicting the moment of triumph comes in hand and now it is a sigh of great honour,pride and pleasure, all at the same time.

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It was 2008.March.Hyderabad.Over a cup of coffee, in the back ground of a drizzling sky , the news is broken.War of hearts.Initial reaction was surprise and then a sigh of great relief-for it signifies the adult hood, acceptance of good and bad mutually.

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2008 again.A saturday.Heavy heart and agonising moments.October, for a change is causing hurt.Second seperation in a span of 3 days . More than the physical seperation, the fall out of the relationship and the hurt that it inflicated.This time it was not a sigh of relief but a sigh of anxiety and anguish.

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2009-July-Hyderabad.Life has come through an whole circle.The results announced indicate the topper, proving to the self and the world outside the tenacity within and the desire to fight and conquer than to lament and perish.This time it is a sigh of great joy, for it is the confidence which has been restored at levels beeter than at any time in the past.

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2010-MARCH

News from Hongkong .Exactly reunion after a decade with another great city, in the offing.It is now received with such a balance of mind wherein there is no great celebration.Now the life has taught what the goal is and how to go about it.There is only a sence of purpose, sence of acievement and a sence of gratitude.

NOW COMES THE GREATEST OF RELIEF.AN ADULT WHO KNOWS HOW TO CARE FOR HIMSELF AND IN THE PROCESS TO CARE FOR OTHERS HAVE ARRIVED.

"MAGAN THANTHIKKATRUM UDAVI,IVAN THANTHAI
ENNOTRAN KOL ENUM SOL"

thanks to Thiruvalluvar....