July

The alarm rang on my face and i realized it’s time for me to wake up. That day i woke up in a totally new place and bed, as i was not remembering what happened yesterday night. My family packed from home early night yesterday and i slept in our car was the last thing came into my mind. That moment, some kind of happiness rush into my mind like the sea shore that i watched in one movie which i saw some time back, it was July. We all get together on this month and i used spend a lot of time in my father's home where i had lot of friends. So the very realization of it was pushing me from the bed as my sunlight alarm was telling me, its already late to get up. I also got a bit idea that nobody around me in the neighborhood has come to know about my arrival, otherwise somebody would have woke me up already. I waked up, and combing my hair and yawning i came to the door in the room, where i was sleeping to the corridor. My room was very small, where there was two beds and a trunk which my grandfather kept his assets. It was a total miracle for me to see such an old trunk box kept under the bed. My grandfather will sometimes check it out, and i used to wonder what was inside it? I touched the trunk box just like that. It got corrosive bit and nothing changed a lot from the last time i seen. I never could see what was inside it, as I couldn’t find that anytime even after I grown up. So the trunk box remained as miracle still in my mind. I was feeling slight sleepy though, i came out of the room. There was a slight bump on the room door leading to corridor. I used to stand on the bump and see what is happening to the world. That day also i stand on top of the bump and was looking around if something happened to my world or not, the cat who was sitting on the sideway of the corridor looked at me like what am i doing? It yawned, when i looked at it. Then i came to the corridor and pushed myself up hanging on the wood of the door on the corridor. My arrival nobody came to know till, or somebody might have called me by this time. I looked outside. The sand on my father's place was so sandy like the sand on sea shores..when i look at it, it smiles at me. I came out of the corridor and stand on the courtyard and looked how my feet pushed the sand down. I used to get dirty with the sand there, and get scold from my mother and family. Sometimes when i go there, there will be a bunch of sands for some work happening there. I will jump into that and will get dirty on all over my body. My father's home had bit land with so much coconut tree and some kind of cultivation and all done from time to time. When there will be cultivation of some small plants which will give some kind of seeds for which i do not know name in english, so much butterflies will come from all my place around there. I had very specific areas everywhere on which i had key interests, which i consider myself as my place, where i will get on top of the trees and will shout loud. Then nobody will listen, but my goodies like sky, clouds and butterflies will listen to me. Here i used to make so many friends, when i climb the trees, the sky will look at me and butterflies used to whisper on my ear. But when at home, which was my commanding center, i used to be bit cruel, i used to tie the butterflies to the strings and make them fly and will run back of it. So it was really fun time. And i had so many friends there, my cousins and friends in neighbourhood. In my father's place, neighborhood was very nearby situated and people will be getting involved in everything, which I generally do not like especially when some big people in neighborhood comments on our playtime. When on a ready day, we all will be ready to game starting from early morning. Then it would be like cricket, fishing and getting into trees to get some food etc would be going on. There was a big land of one of the politician there which was maintained by one of my neighbourhood family. So we were freely roaming around there though that guy will not allow us to get on the trees. But we used to do that. Sometimes this guy will come and will make us run from there where he found something wrong happening there. We included my cousins who were enough in numbers in addition to my friends in neighbor. There was one girl also in our gang, but she was just like another good friend who will participate in all our gaming activities and nobody ever behaved or showed any partiality to her. From that time itself, I was involved in uprising women rights. So while playing cricket, I will not let her get tired of batting, and I will try to replace her while playing cricket and batting. But this july something happened in my place.

It was early morning, I wake up and when I got to the corridor..somebody was shouting from distance seeing me ‘are you not coming?’. I never used to reply to the messages, and I engaged myself in morning activities and was getting ready to my playground. Then when I got ready, I got down the house calling my cousins to join me and I walked towards the meeting place where there was a post which served the electricity for five families. When I reached, my friend was there, but when I looked, one another girl along with him. She was looking so pretty and I was not able to talk anything to her. She was introduced to everybody. She is my friend’s cousine came for a few weeks during the july holiday time. I was bit nervous at that time, which I was not able to understand why it was happening so and while batting, fishing I was looking if she was noticing me. But she was really engaged in her gaming things and she was not really looking at me. I had no complaints on that either. We used to play all sort of games, cricket..fishing..then some native games. One such game was that people will split into two parts and will face each other as a group of more than five to ten people and will walk front and back facing each other holding hands on waist. It will be a group of two. So after a move backward and front singing a colloquial song, one will be picked from each group and they need to pull each other to their gang. The one who succeed will get an addition to their team. I was an average guy in this pulling-in game, but that day I got that girl to pull in. I hold her hands and I could pull her in my team. It was really a nice day in my life. But after two days, she was missing in the gang. When I asked my friend, he told her father came to pick her and she is gone. So that was the end of July. Then back to my place, my world, my sky, my cloud, my butterflies. Then I grownup, at least I tell myself that I am grown up. Then when I looked at the sky, the cloud in the sky was coming..it put a strand to me and on its light I could see the face of sky..