The first time we heard their voice was in
2000 when Niki was born & 2003 when Joyee was born. It was a cry – I guess
that’s how all of us start to make sound. Over last 14 years they learnt to
speak – starting from garbled words to the right word to the right diction.
On June 14, the voices faded away and the
house grew silent. It is a strange experience when you live in a house which
had all kind of voices filled in every nook & corner of house. Discussions
/ decisions / games / fights / crying / movie reviews / seeing TV together
& so on & so forth.
As the days
passed we craved for these voices and tried to create our own pseudo ways of
recalling them. We started hearing their voices through things associated with
them – like TV shows which they were glued on.
We would let the
master chef play in the background just to have some presence in the house – we
know the sofas are empty but in our mind as we cook or carry on with our homely
chores we can visualize the kids sitting & sweating it out to find out who
is getting eliminated.
We would see the
entire season of - “Once upon a Time” all over again because these shows in
some sense took us back to the time we spent together, more importantly it
brought alive all the discussions & story telling done by Joyee as would
inadvertently would have missed a few episodes.
It’s a startling
contradiction we parents live with – when the kids were here they will bring
the house down because of their fights, debates, discussions, finally one of us
would step in & after lot of arguments 2 of them would go back to their
corners. As parents we never enjoy the fights & it’s after effects. We
would often say to each other – when will
these kids grow up & make peace.
Now, when they
did grow up & leave – the peace becomes unbearable at times. We keep
waiting for the vacation to begin when the nook & corner of our house will
once again get filled with voices - laughter, screams, shouts, discussions,
compliments, wishes…….anything which will make both of us to live through till
the next vacation.
Come soon Babes…
Wrote on 06/01/2015
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