I have aged in the first two
months of this year.
It has been a terrifying two
months—the extra day of the leap year included.
It started with an early morning
phone call in late January; it was a wail informing me that my younger brother
had expired in his sleep. How do you react when your brother, the one you grew
up with, is suddenly no more? I could feel the rib - breaking pain as a
kaleidoscope of images of our life together unrolled in my mind. I cried, yet I
could not cry as I was supposed to act as the strong person who would give the
shoulder to the others to cry. I prayed that it was a bad dream and one day I
would wake up to find that all is well. I still pray the same. But Life is not
an Aamir Khan movie. So the recurring pain continues, throbbing at the back of
my mind. I have thought often to put my anguish on paper but I guess it was too
painful
Just six days after this, one
fine morning while stretching to pick up something I felt some sharp twinge at
my back and there I was down with a terrible pain. ‘Back spasm’ said the
doctors and advised me complete rest for the rest of the week. The cause has to
do with carrying laptops and my excess body weight. Well, here I am much better
thank you but hobbling across and watching my diet like a sick old man. Hmmn,
for an ex sportsman and a gourmet, it will take some getting used to. When you
add to it the inputs that I receive from all and sundry about healthy living,
it just adds to the fun.
Well, two months have gone and I
have been shaken, stirred and fried. And as I have said before, aged and I am
not talking about my chronological age.
I must have been a Mayan in one of my
previous births.
