In this chapter I am gonna tell u how I was introduced to this wonderful world. As usual I was getting bored there(oh god ! do I have to tell u that also there…there…in my mom's belly) After all who can be in a dark, boring place for 10 months so I came out early without taking anyone’s permission, not even my mom’s when it was just 8th month(even that was too long for me l I believe). It was at midnight (I read somewhere those who born at midnight will be world famous, its me no wonder!!!….) of 25th june 1986 that great event happend, (an unforgettable event in the history of world- I mean at least in the lives of the people who are tolerating me) I was a pretty ugly creature, as quoted by my sister I looked like a "skinny frog".
As soon as she heard news of my birth she rushed to the hospital to see her cute little sister. Poor girl, she believed all the new born babies will look like the ones in films and advertisements with a chubby face and cute body but to her utter disappointment I was like in the same fashion as I was inside my moms belly, with the arms and legs pulled up like a frog (she was right any way).It took several weeks for my limbs to be flexible and to stretch out like any other normal kid. In spite of all these odd things happening I seemed least bothered, I was happy and comfortable in the incubator(yes, i was in incubator for weeks); it was my mom who was finding it difficult to take care of me. I was so tiny a creature that my mom used to lift me by the edge of my clothes as she feared touching my body can be harmful to me. I was too thin and small for normal handling. Other than this minor de formalities I was a great kid (as my mother said) I was quiet and harmless ,unlike other kids I never disturbed them with long uninterrupted whines ( no body knows the truth that I was too weak to do so and I wouldn’t have spare them if I was able to do so).
Then there were uneventful 2 -3 years during which I gained a lot of weight and finally became a really cute chubby and fair kid like one in advertisements to everyone’s astonishment, meeting my sister’s expectations. I think That’s the only period my sister actually liked me, the photographs of her holding me with a big smile like posing for a tooth paste advertisement proves all that. What followed those years was a long age of war between us, always our home was like a war zone with amma and pappa either as UN peace workers or as UN force to establish the peace at home. I am not getting in to all those details as it was messy and embarrassing for me to reveal all as I am a victim of brutal harassment, from healthy, dominating sister!!) . In the following years I grown up to a long skinny Skelton structure and my skin color also started turning into grey to black from a snow white complexion. I was becoming a shy,coy introvert who’s world was pappa. For me my pappa was my hero(even today no change for that) he was the only one who has no restriction in my life. Every one else including my mom, I always kept them at a distance creating a little world of my own. Next, the childhood adventures: perhaps another time.........
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