Wednesday, May 14, 2014

detachment

To be detached is to place
one in the hard core
of a context,
be contextual...
and remove unaffected.
Tale of Wilderness
It might have been just another day, just another emotion kept crawling closer eyes and deaf-ed ears and one by one all senses. Emotions, creeping closer till it damages brain cells for a second and make people imagine this particular moment has the seeds of all days to come. And one is destined to move only in the thin sharp strict lines of this emotion carpet in the entire life. And on such an emotion, sure, did he yield when he ate all the sleeping pills in the bottle and left his body defeat him forever not by yielding but by not yielding to death.
The letter in the table read:

The remaining money whatever is in my account and the property in Meenangaadi is to be given to my younger son.

HE was  my uncle. I grew up him as a role model.  Long thrilling journeys that he undertook in his life has inspired me. And strong decisions he made in life has encouraged me. The lone days he spend among my relatives have scared me. He was a world. A Parent who lived his life to the full and allowed his children to explore love and enjoy life. I wanted to have born in his house.

 He wanted to be my father-in-law. And at a tender age i fell in love with his son and learned great lessons of forgetting and discarding in mysterious ways, not just by individuals but by families.

Tale of Kozhikode City

In the youth Sarala was effervescent.
That was before she has had hallucinations.
Even before anyone noticed anything idiosyncratic about her.
Before she started being mute.
Before she began her energetic, never ceasing walk into and out of her,
through the long verandas of their house.
About her illness, I have had endless chance to hear about. But about her youth I haven't heard much.
Only that she has been the school leader in her times and was a smart girl.

She stayed with her brother's family and tried to love the people in her life. I, for that matter, belonged outside her area of concern. Because i was connected or rather not connected to her through her brother's marriage, a distant relative.
But I noticed her love for my cousins. She especially loved her sister's daughter. When we, kids, climbed over trees and fell for mangoes in many ways, Sarla thought it important to protect this cousin. We spent our vacation in joyous spirit in and around sarala occasionally wondered why she couldn't be happy and most of all I wondered why I couldn't be the object of her concern.

In this summer, at the beginning of my son's vacation and at the beginning of many many springs in my life, after long battles, I heard the story of her end, her miserable end. Sarala's death was more abandoned than her life, or it was the result of all her abandonment. She dies in a mental hospital. After having sent lots of letters to her brother's house for taking her back mentioning her healthy state of mind and complete recovery from madness, the hospital authorities might have abandoned her too. Her death didnt bring much tears, only a few sighs , perhaps. and a lot of sense of relief.

Sarala's marriage was a failure. The problem was that she loved her husband too much. It was the kind of love which was reflected in the way she addressed him, the way she remembered him in her own fence less louder tone. My youth had its imprints.
Her long words,
her longer than soul calls to her husband.
Desperate attempts to pull the doors open.
Doors perhaps to the kind of life she deserved.
She was imaginative and the world was too disconnected and wounded to give her any solace.

The road to hospitals and road to kozhikode city was always scorched. The environment of intolerable touch of insensitivity.
There are no holes of cool woods.
No fur of imagined feathers.
Torrid climate was ever present.
Even in Sarla's house, which was far from the city, harsh messenger waves of this insensitivity reached, to your dismay, almost everyday.
She felt it, waled endless and gave in one day.

The loneliness of a sensitive mind allowed to walk as many times as she wished, and the one locked in a cell where other people are no better in deceiving the world, might be different.
It can't be measured, though.
There aren't many instruments to measure them. The pain of a wounded mind, of body, I have seen many in hospitals.Unfortunately there aren't many tablets to be given as the pace of pain increases and decreases.
Melancholy is marketable. It, like the leaves-red, green and yellow, might be mellowing sometimes, ready to fall. But the nature of melancholy does not allow itself to be fallen from the minds.They cultivate it. Hospitals cultivate it. They cut it, to the size they want. and exhibit it. Market it. It has then the colour of freshness. It gets crowded and stays there. In a cell, melancholy might breed faster with no flights of dream. And in a cell melancholy made sarala commit suicide.



Yellow butterflies

Why do yellow butterflies live at the end of a tunnel?
Why did you take so long to be part of my langue
To get us to our langue and call it a world.