Footprints

 x-x-x  You don’t look her in the eye. Sitting at a table for two, you both are enjoying each other’s company. ‘For the last time?’ you ask yourself. You can’t see through her, you can’t seem to break through that wall she puts around herself anymore. It’s been this way ever since that disinterested-in-this-relationship talk you both had.  “You don’t have to be insecure about it,” you had said.  “But I do, I don’t appreciate the fact that you take out time for things, and then have absolutely none for me when you come back home,” she had nearly shouted at you.  “She needed me today,” you’d tried to say.  “And I don’t?” she’d cut you off.  “As a friend Jay, as a friend,” your voice had cracked.  “Fine, whatever,” she had left the dinner table; her meal untouched.  The pleasant aroma of the sweet cakes, warm coffee and just-out-of-the-oven croissants meant nothing to the either of you now. The Bread World, five minutes from your house had alway...

 "Baba, wake up. How many more times do I have to wake you up after switching off your snooze?" I woke up hearing Amma's voice. Rubbing my eyes, I sat up on the bed, yawning.  "I'm up Ma," I called after her.  "I told you I had a feeling yesterday na ?" Amma asked. I frowned and swung my legs to the floor. Walking out the bedroom, "About what Ma?" I asked her.  "The Metropolitan (the highest authority of the Mar Thoma Church)." She said.   My eyes widened. "No."  "Yes. Early morning today." She shook her head. I looked over at Appa typing furiously into his phone.  "Good morning Pa," I said. He looked up.  "Not such a good morning," he said. I smiled wanly. Ma was serving the customary morning tea before prayer.  "I'll just come," I told her, grabbing my toothbrush and smearing it with Colgate.   The cool water on my face pulled me out of my morning blues. I stared at myself ...

  (Click Here for the above Image's Source Link)     I recently watched this film that had released in 2017 and was directed by Neil Burger, entailing ‘a comedic outlook at the relationship between a quadriplegic wealthy man and an unemployed man with a criminal record who is hired to help him’ (IMDb, 2019). This movie, that was itself a remake of a 2011 French film, has since then been remade into South Indian Films as well. It brings together the primary fact that humans need each other to function irrespective of one’s physical, social or economic status. It outlines the journeys of two human beings who have all-but-given-up on life but who also just need that ‘little push’ to bring them back from the edge of despair. It also teaches us that it’s easy to blame the World for our problems but the hard part is realizing that we ourselves are letting the problems get the better of us.  There’s a lot of mental health awareness that’s going on now, and it’s great! We ...

  This has always been a frequent question in our household. Be it a piece of cake, caramelized fried banana pieces, halwas or the simple chocolate chip ‘Hide and Seek’, we loved to indulge our sweet teeth. I guess you can say it runs in the family – ofcourse, so does diabetes but, no this isn’t about ‘that group of diseases that result from too much sugar in blood’ – relax.      Mid-morning      “What’s for sweet today?” asked Abu.  “Well, if we hadn’t gobbled up that cream bun yesterday, we could’ve had it for today.” Anu scowled at him. “Okay,  do not  tell me that you  did not  want a bite of that awesome snack last night,” he smirked at her. “Fine; never mind,” she said, trying not to give her brother the satisfaction of her being his partner-in-crime again. “Let’s just think about today. What do you want?” “I’m craving chocolate cake – the real kind and not the one with the curd and stuff,” warned Abu, “t...