Friday, August 26, 2011

Appavum naanum

DAD IS A PERSON WHO IS VERY KIND, 
OFTEN KNOWS WHAT IS ON YOUR MIND.
HE IS SOMEONE WHO LISTENS, 
SUGGESTS AND DEFENDS.
IN ALL THAT YOU DO, 
DAD's LOVE PLAYS A PART.
THERE IS ALWAYS A PALACE FOR HIM, 
DEEP IN YOUR HEART.
AND WITH EACH YEAR THAT PASSES, 
THE LOVE STRENGTHENS, 
I AM EVEN MORE GLAD, AND PROUD, 
JUST TO CALL YOU MY DAD...




Appa, one person I love the most in this world!! I look up to the knowledge he has, irrespective of the subject, topic he can start a conversation on almost everything under the sky. He is patient, never takes decisions in haste. He works so much, on his toes all day yet takes time out for us, never made us feel that he doesn't give us time. He has never said 'NO' to me for anything, what ever I wished, he has always made it come true before I asked for it.


When ever I think of him, memories just come and overflow, there are so many memories and such beautiful ones that I neither have words for them nor can I put them all here. I have spent nineteen long years under his shadow, and it has been a beautiful life so far.


I still remember how he used to get me ready for school, made me wear my uniform to my shoes...he did that till I was 10 years old!!! Just hair was Amma's department. He taught me to ride my cycle, he would come along with me and my brother to play cricket in chilly mornings during winter holidays, yes I do remember the first time I rode scooty, with him sitting behind to help me out. Appa, you are the only one who knows the trick of waking me up at 4 am, even Amma has never been able to do that till now.
I don't know if he remembers but I do, long back we went to his Chitti's place in chennai on Shankar thatha's cycle...I haven't met them since then, it was around 12 years back, I hardly remember anything but yes I remember each and every part of that cycle ride. We also went to Mandavali that time, it was a train journey though but it was just SHRUTI and her APPA travelling, that is the best thing about all those journeys.
Our recent trip to bareilly, he left me there at hostel and came back, I cried all day in my room, I had already begun missing you Appa.


Appa, you have been there with me at each and every step of my life to support me, to protect me, to pick me up when I fall. I want you to be by my side till my death, I can't even imagine my life sans you.

Happy Birthday Appa!!!
May you be hale and hearty forever and ever...