Saturday, March 10, 2012

boy

You know what he did to his sister's summer assignments? He wrote 'very good' on every page with a tick mark. She had taken almost a month to fill up the workbook carefully and had to redo the whole thing in 5 days. He was in primary school then and meant well. i remember him as the fair, chubby, naughty, and very cute boy. There was a girl who used to carry him in her arms. i think she was his cousin's friend. He cried that he loved her and wanted to marry her. Whenever the relatives gather and he gets mentioned, we laugh over his childhood antics. One of my mom's favorite too, he used to say that mom rides an ill-fitting luna and didn't even notice him walking to school, smart and handsome. He collected the nose wax (mucous?) it seems. When his mom cleaned it off, he cried saying that he wanted to make a ball out of it. The courtyard used to be full of bows and arrows during the mahabharatha season on T.V as he and his cousins would be at war. He once asked his big daddy (uncle) to run without clothes in the rain with him as it would be fun. He was too cute that his big daddy laughed and said, "i would really love to do it, but your aunty will scold me". If the pestle and mortar were missing,  his mom would find something being grounded for some experiment, sometimes pieces of glass.  
i saw him last when mom left for Imphal. He was working for one of the airlines in Bangalore. i still felt funny remembering all that i had heard about him and to see him suddenly grown up. Smart in the uniform, it was a delight to see him. He loved famously too, and got engaged in January to be married early next year.

i called up his sister and came to know that he passed away on the 21st of Feb, suddenly. On Facebook, he still smiles beside John Abraham inside some flight. We had teased that he looks much more handsome. Sometimes, you don't know why things happen.

9 comments:

austere said...

OMG!
How terrible terrible for his family.
Was he in an accident?

hnarsana said...

Really sad to hear this.. hope his soul rests in peace.

Canary said...

what exactly happened?

Arunima said...

Well, he had typhoid some months back is what I heard. Suddenly, he started passing blood with stool and was hospitalised. Was in a comma for two days and just passed away. Post mortem report said, his internal organs including intestines were damaged. Think he has been in pain and never complained to anyone.

Pallavi said...

Sigh... I was just posting the other day on FB that you never know when you meet someone for the last time..

May his soul rest in peace

White Magpie said...

Yes sometimes you never know whether you are meeting someone for the last time or whether it is your last moment. It makes it all the more important to give your whole in the time we spend with whoever it is.Hearing something like this brings an immense sadness cause we dont understand why such things happen.

tys said...

the best among us dies in silence...slipping away unnoticed , but perhaps by a few, like leaving a party...

Kritika said...

My condolences. :( That is so sad.

Life is too short and death does come suddenly sometimes. One of my unless passed away when he was only around 30, and he passed away while bathing- had a silent heart attack and nobody even knew.

Also, three women known to us died recently due to cancer- they were all young.

We really shouldn't take life for granted. :/

Shobana Jayaraman Srikumar said...

I feel sad to hear this. I hope for his own sake, he lived his life the way he wanted to.