Just like that....!!!

I often get into that mood…

I often justify things basis that mood.

Still trying to figure out if others around me feel that way. How I wish I could give that as an excuse in my professional life as well.

It’s been exceptionally sunny here for the past few days and I realized that only when the sun shines brightly in my eyes through my window to wake me up. I do feel irritated. How I always wish the weather was smoky. Love it that way.

One of the reasons I guess I miss winters in Delhi the most. I still remember catching the school bus at 7 am. It used to be pitch dark, street lights still kept switched on for people like us to find a way. The fog was so thick that we would never know if the bus is on its way or did we miss it again.

Winters in Delhi were often referred as “kara ke ki thand” which is what exactly it was. It’s been a while since I saw myself in the mirror and saw my nose red from the cold, or when my mom would warm the water to even wash our faces. The cold was really bad. But I loved to snuggle up in my thick quilt. I remember my dad would snuggle up with me and my sister and try to push us out of the bed in order to wake us up for school.

Oh wow, just felt so good to only think about that winter.

Yes, while reality has attacked my senses now, I will have to move out in the sunny sultry Mumbai weather.

Only a memory now of that winter stays within me…. Nothing can melt it!