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The idea, the protagonist and antagonist, the situation, and a bit about the
story HIDE & SEEK published in my blog SCENT OF OWN INK>
It’s a story about a hypothetical relationship
developed between a mother and her young son. Mother is a careerist and her son
is an introverted alien soul. Son has a sense of being a right soul in a wrong
body, but he can’t open his feelings to mother.
The total story is based on an online chat between
mother and her son. Their relationship, the lack of warmth in feelings, and
their confinement to their own world, all appear through their conversation.
They always feel they were moving on two parallel linear paths and it was not
possible to traverse each other. Still, whenever they felt their hearts heavy
with any saddened moment, they used to call each other.
They used to extend their hands to touch each other.
And now, the son was in need of three lakh rupees for
his operation to satisfy his soul and to feel his soul was in a right body, but
he couldn't illustrate the reason why he needed such a huge amount of money to
his mother, the one from whom he sought the money. “This is to help one of my
friends,” he told his mother.
For the whole night, his mother was thinking of that
person for whom her son cared so much. Was his son in love with anyone? Did he
have a lover? Would she demand more for his money than for his heart? Was it a
he or she? Was her son being taken advantage of? The questions kept screaming
out and she had no clear answers. The thought also entered her mind her son
might be involved in an antisocial faction. Ultimately, she refused to give him
money and her son never pursued the request further.
Once during chatting, mother forwarded an audio file to
her son, which she liked very much and whose lyrics touched her heart. But did
he get impressed with that music and words? To know her son’s response, mother
asked him, “You didn't tell me about the audio file I have sent. Did you listen
to it?” Instead of replying to her eagerness, he wrote back, “Listen to this
song from this link.”
It was a link of YouTube. When she clicked the link, a
favourite Bollywood movie song appeared entitled “Luka chhipi bahut hui”... “we
had so much of hide and seek games.” It was a song for a youth in that Hindi
movie, who sang it for his mother.
Mother’s eyes filled with tears. So pathetic the tone
of that song was. A mother searched for her son in that movie. She searched in
lanes, by-lanes, parks, and roadsides. She called out, “Where are you, my son?
Your mother is searching for you.” She imagined her son was in a coffin. There
was a pyre. There was smoke. She could hear her son’s voice, “How can I say
where I am, maa? How can I?”
But it was not a climax. Did the boy express his
feelings to his mother? Did she accept them? What happened to the boy’s
feelings of a right soul in a wrong body?
I’m thankful to my friend Paul McKenna who has
encouraged me to write and has edited the story despite of his busy schedule.
It will be great to read your comments and feedback at
my blog site at
http://scentofownink.blogspot.in/2013/04/my-story-series-8_306.html
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