“What’s my bad habit?” I asked Uncle Sam on one bleak evening.

“Start counting.”

“Yes.”

“Number One – You try to dominate everyone.

 Number two – You have zero patience.

 Number three – You are very adamant over few things.”

“Hei stop. I am not asking about my bad qualities. I am asking about bad habits.” I interrupted.

“You take lot of tea cups on a single day.”

“I don’t think that you are exactly correct. However though I don’t drink I feel hangover once or twice a year.”

“How comes?”

“Nostalgia – The week before I visit my Home and the week after it. The before week speeds away in my plans and the after week goes in my hangover. They say Home is a temple and ours is the one.

When I reach the station, father and my younger brother both

come to receive with huge hugs and kisses in the station itself.

My sweet elder sister comes from her law’s house and stays

with us till I stay.

Jiju accompanies all of us for a dinner at Hotel Dwarka or Akbari

or Vishal.

I help mother in cooking, drop her at school at 9.50 and pick up

at 4.10.

Father, mother, brother, sister, Jiju and I have tea together in our

big dining hall every evening.

All of us have fun, chat, gossip till late in the night. The laughs

sometimes get much louder.

We visit Father’s native side and mother’s native side, meet all of

them. I feel good to have their blessings.

I visit my specific and limited friend circle, spend time on river

bank or restaurants.

I meet Her after a long time (It seems so in love), go to restaurants,

temples and other visiting places. She never prefers to leave

me. More specifically when I drive with her at NH-5, the needle

never goes after 20kmph. What’s the hurry???

>As usual, no one likes when I pack up my bags to leave, mother and

sister get their eyes little watered, not much. Even she feels gloomy.”

“How do you feel all the time?” Uncle Sam asked.

“I enjoy each and every second of my stay in my native. I go once in seven-eight months and I just can’t notice how five-six days pass. When I get back to my work and desk, I don’t feel to do. I feel wistfulness. It continues for a week min.”

Uncle Sam said, “Emotions, sentiments makes a man weak. Sooner you come out of these, better for your desk job.”

Signature: God Bless You.

                Satyabrata.