Home is where the books are !!!

Enough of corona talks, corona statistics, corona news and corona advice.

Seriously, I mean I am tired now. Hotel to hospital and hospital to home. Today it was my वाहिनीचा birthday. Saee just asked if i could come home. Normally I am very anxious to go home since baba is diabetic. But I took this as an occassion to go home. So going home to see the surprised face of Abhimanyu, dada who has lost lots of weight , happy aai baba and lots of पसारा in my favourite Prachi society I felt that snuggly cozy feeling which made me forget all about corona.

Everyone was busy setting the house since we just shifted to Prachi. In my room there were many boxes and one such box was THE BOX OF BOOKS. I felt instant happiness. And yes I updated my whatsapp status (Phone addiction max).

I have a very addictive personality. (Thank God I am staying away from alcohol!!) So in childhood due to non availability of phones and less access to Television I was addicted to books. Most of my childhood photos are with books. Friends and family never had trouble decideing on my birthday gifts....Yes books ( Now you know what to get for me! )

I loved going to the libraries. In school, in the long breaks I loved going to the school library. It used to be Tinkle and even now. After all this time......Always!

I used to fantasize having a breakfast of bacon and eggs after reading Enid Blyton's Famous five. How I loved George's charachter, so tomboyish!! I dont even know if that is a word ! It was a task to find each and every book of the series secret seven and read them. I cant forget to mention the children's book of Heidi. I read it so many times and it did something to my brain. It was so amazing. I wanted to have the meals of thick bread and goats milk and some meat. I reread this book last year. I learnt a few more things. Adults need to read more of children's books. They have a lot more philosophy of life to offer.

Why do I fantasize about the food only in these books? Its the way it is described. Yummm!

Whenever I am going through some important event in my life I constantly think of how it would be written in a book.

That is what I told Saee the day before my Arangetram.

                                       "It was a normal evening in the Shete household. Everyone was seated at the dinner table. Everyone's favourite egg curry had been prepared by Saee and it was a delight to see small Abhimanyu eat his food with his own hands. Abhimanyu's grandmother was as usual fretting about whether everyone had enough to eat. Ameya acting like the incharge was talking about something which his sister Rucha found very unimportant. She had her own things in mind. So she was silently eating her food. It was a big day for her tommorow. She was going to perform solo in front of her family and friends. Her Baba being so proud of her was talking about who all would come for the performance"

Wow I think I can qualify as a writer. Ok now let me stop meandering. I meander a lot.

Hahahahhahah........Yes I used the word "meander". Because I just read it in a Charles Dickens books. When I went home today I found it all tied up in the box of books. I had to set it free and make it achieve its destiny of being read by me. I started reading and found myself lost in that world of a story with the word meander in it.

Then again anxiety crept in after seeing my dad and I left the house to come back to the hotel. Yes after giving Saee some icecream which I got for her birthday.

It was really sad to leave the house and I cried while talking to my friend. But I saw a list of things that people do for their mental health and guess what the last thing was - Write a blog. What would I write about ? I see in front of me the current books I was reading. Homo Deus, Mind of Mahatma gandhi, Rumi ......as you can see. I have turned from fiction to non fiction. Growth is happening .

So this blog happened!

वाचाल तर वाचाल !!!

Sending love !!!!  Till the next blog...See you !