Baba
I would step out of home at exactly 5.56am. Run to the elevator, press the button and run back to grab a fruit before the elevator reached my floor. Jump into it, run to the bus, making it in just a few seconds before it left. Some days, I’d take the bus at 6.20am just to see this through the windows. My grandfather walks at least 4/5kms everyday, he’s 82 I think. I’d wait just to say bye to him and have him ask me “Arre, itne jaldi” even though he knows this is when I always leave. He’d leave at “Accha chalo jaao” and continue to walk for god only knows how long.
We don’t speak much, him and I, we don’t have much to speak about. But he’s been my favourite ever since I was a kid. You see, everyone at home used to discriminate against me. Some because I was the third girl child, some cause I used to lie all the time, some cause I was just too young and some because everyone else did. But Baba, (yeah, it’s funny, we call our grandparents Aaji and Baba) he never discriminated against me.
In fact, it was from him that I learnt to love everyone no matter where they came from. It was from him that I learnt to give without ever expecting anything in return. It’s also from him that I learnt to do whatever I wanted to if it meant that I’d have a little fun. He’s obviously got his own flaws, who doesn’t but he’s kind and to me, that’s good enough. I’ve been very lucky to have all four of my grandparents for such a long time in my life but I’ve been the luckiest to have him.
We don’t speak much, him and I, we don’t have much to speak about. But he’s been my favourite ever since I was a kid. You see, everyone at home used to discriminate against me. Some because I was the third girl child, some cause I used to lie all the time, some cause I was just too young and some because everyone else did. But Baba, (yeah, it’s funny, we call our grandparents Aaji and Baba) he never discriminated against me.
In fact, it was from him that I learnt to love everyone no matter where they came from. It was from him that I learnt to give without ever expecting anything in return. It’s also from him that I learnt to do whatever I wanted to if it meant that I’d have a little fun. He’s obviously got his own flaws, who doesn’t but he’s kind and to me, that’s good enough. I’ve been very lucky to have all four of my grandparents for such a long time in my life but I’ve been the luckiest to have him.
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