Today is a normal day—the perfect day. When I awoke at 11 a.m., my sister was in town; by 12 p.m., Navya had called and was waiting in front of the hostel. It's almost the same situation at home. Sabir, me, and Chettan would be sitting in our room talking about anything and everything that came into our heads. They would tease each other, and Navya would be with us, with Shunnu, and in the kitchen. Shunnu will be either sleeping, playing with her friends, or watching Coco Melon. She will come around and make a visit often. Today, Hari, who was new to all these, was not sure what to do and was here and there too.
Recently, as Saber got his guitar, he mostly played it all day, not letting me sleep peacefully. I tried to learn a little bit of guitar but found it very difficult.
There is this song in that Malayalam movie called Romanjam. "Thalatherichavar ottaake vazhana kottaram." That song was literally made for us. There was this time when I had a heartbreak in April. Sabir was not here at that time, and Thambi was here. Me, Chettan Thambi, and Shunnu were literally living that Thalathericha life for almost one month, and Navya was trying so hard to put up with it.
Life is out of the turmoil lately. It is okay now. and here with all of us, it's perfectly fine now. Do you ever wonder what life is all about? Its people are nothing but people. The same place would be horrible if these folks were not here. We all wonder how life will be after this. Here, at this moment, life is perfect.
We all need a tribe—a tribe that belongs to us, a tribe that is ours, where we dont have to think twice before talking, where we are not going to get judged, and how lucky one should be to get that tribe.
In fact, none of us expected it that after a few years, we will all be together again; it was unexpected. and I do wish that after this period of settling down and when we all become in our mid-30s or so, we all get to share this space of togetherness again, that we all get lucky enough to be together again.
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