Avinashi _MJ

                      T he human brain is tricky; at times it reminds you about things that have no part to play in your life’s big decisions. Yet the smallest portion of your memories can pop up as an inspiration to move on in life. You know what is trickier than this? Nature ... Nature makes us feel we know everything, but it teaches us only what it decides we should know. The rest of it always remains a secret forever. Not just our future is a mystery but there may be events of the past that have not given the real answers and eventually we just assume the happenings with our imagination. This happened about ... ( huh.. I don’t remember exactly, but probably ) twelve years ago.

The onion peel... “ Do you remember the time we had that fight ?” she asked me gazing at a door.  “ Which one are you asking about, coz we had a lot of fights ”, I dint know what she was asking. Even my aunt didn’t get what her daughter mentioned. “ Which one Ady ?” aunt added on to my enthusiasm. That was a reunion of our family in remembrance of our grandfather’s death anniversary.  The day we all get to meet everyone after a long year. Grandma her children and grandchildren gather there to pray for the souls of great grandfathers, up in the sky and cook food as a feat of tradition. At the end of the day, we also maintained a tradition of having good family time and chit chats; we all sit together and talk all nonsense. It seems like to be in the market, where all merchants shout out loud to sell their own products. Here we all want to share our different stories.  Ady popped that question to me after a long family talk.  Since no one knew what she was mentioning, she

The love proposal…. Some Day I should Marry a man, Be the whole world to him, Be the greatest chef than his mom, Be a soothing doctor, Be the Stress ball he throws his anger on, Be independent when he is not around, Be a wise woman to resolve his problems, Be a good friend who forgives his mistakes!! I may have to do these for someone, life chooses for me……….. But Someday I should    Share my ‘self’ with him, Carry a whole new future for months in me, Lie on the death bed opening the door for the birth of a new soul, Swallow the biggest pain the world has ever known, as a memory of the love once shared!! And I ain’t doing these for any ‘someone’ But You Coz, Wh