New Destinations Awaiting

......Nikki wake up, wake up its 5:45am. Get up, go bring the milk from milkman quickly otherwise your father would get late in leaving for his job. Immediately the guy wakes up in the coldest of mornings in a beautiful city renowned as 'Pinkcity' in the northern part of the India, cursing the work and leaving the warm comfort of blanket. The guy wakes up, brushes, freshens up, takes the vessel quickly and leaves for going to 'Dudhwala' where he intends to reach quickly so that h doesn't has to stand in line and wait for his turn. As he has to leave for the school too.
                                                                                                                                                       
Another Day : Tring tring.... a nice ringtone playing in a mobile.  The same guy is sitting on his bed in the western part of the country, a city famously know as the financial capital of India. The guy picks up the call, voice on the other side of his loving neighbors Limba Family.
 Aunti : Hello Nikki
Nikki : Ji aunti pranam !
Aunti : Khush raho; kaisa hai?
Nikki : Bas aunti ekdum badiya, aap sunaiye!
Aunti : (with a happy feeling) beta Shilu ki shaadi fix ho gyi hai !
Nikki : Kya baat kar rhi hai aunti (happy n excited tone) kab !
Aunti : 24th in the ending of this year n do anything but you have to come! manage your holidays and book        your tickets in advance.
Nikki : Okk aunti ! sure will do. Conversation ends...
Guess a lot has changed from the day I used to wake up early for getting milk from the dudhwala. Back now in hometown, my parents bring dairy's pasteurized milk as fresh and pure milk is not easily available. I am working in a metro city, living with guys who I rarely knew a couple of months ago, in a room that barely equals me n my brother's personal room back in hometown. Kids call you uncle, government deems you as an adult although you feel, you are barely crossing your early 20's. You still see yourself as a youth in his late teens, as when you look yourself in mirror you feel nothing has changed in you. Same face and look with a little growth of facial hairs. Its just a year or more into the job & suddenly I realize that life has drastically changed from the last time I self introspected and took notice. Whenever I log into my Facebook account, i half expect it already, as there is a new news about another of your mate or friend falling down, getting engaged or is getting married on so and so date as if there is a marriage festival going on. You suddenly realize you are alone by yourself and lo call it the curse of the destiny or what 'a vacuum is created in your space for someone' automatically or by situation God knows. The earliest of marriage function I remember was of my cousin brother when I was a 10-11 year old kid who used to have fun pulling her mother's & would be bhabhi's long hairs. Cut to present, I just got over with own brother's wedding 4-5 months ago and before you realise anything people have started asking about my future plans for the same. Well leave about a big responsibility called marriage, I have just been into the new phase of life after finishing up with the education somehow managing myself. To ask for such a thing, even thinking about it takes a whole lot of effort when you have little know-how about spending life with someone and looking after fulltime as you just have been spending carefree life. Love is an whole together alien concept to you.
Life as of now seems to have come at a point, where I feel clueless about future, directions to be headed for. Its a whole lot of mix of posssiblities, things have changed too much, without me even knowing it. When I see school going kids, I visualize my not so distant past, whereas seeing the college going guys I feel I was one of them just sometime ago, Suddenly I realize my love for music specially soft music has increased immensely as listening to it provides me a sense of calm, comfort and belongingness that I now-a-days seek in life. Just a few words come to my mind :
बचपन के दोस्त जाने कहाँ गुजर गए
फिसले बिना ही हम संभल गए 
ज़िंदगी के मायने कुछ यूं बदले की
हमारे कदम अनजानी मंजिलों की ओर बढ़ गए !!  
~My Voice~