everyday life

After this brief sabbatical, regular life is back on track and once again the monotony is quietly seeping in. Once again I’ll have to go through the same recurring images of the tea gardens and cross the same old bridges while listening to the songs of the birds and the rains. It’s been a year exactly since I joined my courses in this university and the similar onslaught of the rains has once again begun. Currently I am busy reading Shashi Despande’s “Small Remedies”. There’s a lyrical quality moves to her writing. I have just started so I should not say more than I’m expected to. Lets see the beginning has been smooth till now. Hopefully the end will not disappoint.
By the way, today happens to be my birthday. No, there are no plans for a grand celebration as such, just a quiet evening with friends but I doubt how quiet it will stand to be, I mean the continual rains will keep on humming all day long.The rains are washing all the dust and the dirt and is helping in making this terribly humid place cooler but the mud splashed roads and the pathetic condition of the roads are making the commuters lose their mind. So much need to be changed from the grassroots that it is practically making all of us feel low and these rains are not helping at all. But the rains are inevitable and I love their company…I cannot let them go, after all I was born in the rains…