There is a malayalam song from an album which goes somewhat like this:
“Aadhymaayi kanda naal ormayundo?
Aar adhyam kandathu ormayundo? ……."
(Do you remember the day when we first met? Do you remember, who saw first…)
Thinking on those lines, I tried to recollect when we had our first fight. It was too often that I could not remember the first time or who started the fight or why we had a fight or how we reconciled. Having a fight was not fun …. but reconciliation was definitely fun.
After a fight, we would not talk to each other for sometime. Then after a good 10 minutes or so, I would start singing some songs like – ‘Root na jana tumse kahun tho…’ and after singing the same line around 10 times, she would relax her shoulder and facial muscles and slowly stop staring outside the window and a glare at me would mean things are good… and life would proceed. As our marriage aged, she understood my tricks and would not easily budge on songs…. at least not if I just repeated the same line or if I repeated the same song… and I had to recollect other songs…. ‘bade aache lagthe hein….’ usually worked if nothing else worked.
As time went, our fights took different turns and became more complicated and the songs did not help at all. Not even ‘bade aache lagthe hein’, most of them resolved only because of ‘time’ or when some god-sent phone call or a when god-sent visitor comes. I still remember one of the fights… it was three years back….. though I do not recollect the reason of the fight, I recollect the reconciliation process. Trying to appease her, I first sang one of her favorite songs and the way she looked at me uff... if the song was a piece of paper, she would crushed it and put to trash. Then, I slowly went close by her…. expecting a fist to come close to my face…. I kept my nose guarded. No reaction! Took the next step…. lied down next to her…. Still no reaction…. Acted as if going to sleep…. And slowly put my hand near her palm…. No reaction yet…. Slowly touched her palm at the same time acting it was an accident…yes… there was a slight reaction, she pulled her hand away and turned with her back facing me now…… sang one more song …. She quipped… ‘I am trying to sleep… do not talk and disturb me’. Her hand, was no where visible, so I moved my leg and slowly touched her leg…. the lioness in her woke up…. and warned me of dire consequences if I tried to touch her again….. “o o! accident… sorry… I did not do it intentionally…” I meowed like a cat. I scooted closer to her after around 5 minutes…she warned me again …. and I said, “this is also my bed… and I have not touched you yet. Tell me if I touch you”. Then I put my hand across her still not touching her…. and told her, if you move and my hand touches you, it is not my mistake… after sometime I slowly kept my arms over her hips…. She did not complain….then slowly scooted closer to her… she turned and pushed me back…and I said…
’What? I can’t even touch you or what?’
She said –‘No! You can’t until you behave.’
Let me see what you will do if I touch you and held her hands down and hugged her… she tried to free herself up.... for sometime … and then resorted to biting…. I held her face with my face forcibly, then she started to tickle me… and I too started to tickle her and we both started to laugh… and laughs turned to smiles and smiles to …… and in a few minutes we could start feeling the wind blow to our legs first, then to our arms and then to our backs….. and ... the result of our reconciliation was felt after around 2-3 weeks when she started to vomit…..and 9 months later… we had a handsome and cheerful baby boy.
Our child, has been keeping us busy and it is he who helps resolve most of our fights, either he would cry for a diaper change or for milk, or he would flip over and cause joy, or he would have taken his first step or he would have broken our favorite vase or he would have spilled the glass of milk or he would quit eating etc etc…. Its long time since we got an opportunity to have a fight and reconcile. The only songs I sing now are the lullabies…. And I guess, it is time for the next fight now…. need to pick up a fight with her so that we can have one more reconciliation…..and time to learn new songs... nah... may skip the songs this time ;-)
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Ohmkaram Skit 2007 for Vishu
This Skit's story, lyrics for the parody and dialouges were written by me. Hope it was ok.
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