Once I heard of a bird, can't remember the name. It moves from one place to another through out it's whole life, but finally, when it's time it comes back & die at the same place where it was born. It's funny how some human beings are no different from them. One of such kind is me.
I spent my childhood in a village, people hasn't heard of. All my 'first's took place there, at least from the time I can remember. The first touch of the sunlight, first feel of wintry breeze, first shed of tears, first innocent smile....everything that matters. Even I had some 'last's over there. I remember when I last time stole fruits from someone else's tree or played hide-n-seek in the fields or looked at the horizons & wondered what mystery was hiding there. In short, I had all memories of my dear childhood scattered around every corner of that place.
Then I was 13. It was time to move. To a better place, to a relatively town-far far away from my childhood memories. But I couldn't stay there for long either. 7 more years & I hit the open road again. This time all on my own. First it was for studies & now it's for job. But I am away-away from everything I started my journey with. Sometime it feels like I traveled a long road till here. So long that I don't resemble anything of whom I started as. But I know better. I know I still have much much longer way to run before I can rest. And this long run ain't gonna be any easy. But when I somehow manage to take a break from my busy, urban life to take some rest, and when I feel like I can use some sleep at home, I just close my eyes & only one picture comes to my mind- That shabby little,tree-surrounded, unfashionable house what I left almost a decade ago. Maybe because it's the first place I knew, or maybe because I didn't have to see it through an adult's eyes, but to me it's the most comforting place in the whole world. And one thing for sure- "it's to you, I'll always return".....
I hear the wind call my name
the sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
To you I'll always return....
