All at the same time..
He faced the criticism and the glory,
All at the same time..
He played with his sister and cried with his mom, before leaving his place. He knew it might turn into his last visit, a visit to his home. A place where he learnt to walk holding his dad's finger. A place where he played hide and seek. A place where he could act as the king, however feeble and meek. But now he no longer is the bullied kid at school. He is a young and able soldier fighting for his motherland. He has a mother who waits for him, to return home and hug her tightly. He has a father who is proud to tell his friends that his son fights for his country bravely. He has a younger brother for whom he is an ideal man. He also has a little sister who sends him rakhi in an envelope every year. He is an ordinary man with an extraordinary might....to face the arms and the enemies with no regret or plight. He wants to celebrate all the festivals with his family. He also wants to eat the mom-made food from her hands. He craves his mom's lap for a peaceful sleep...which he hasn't got for a long long time. He wants to enjoy a game of chess with his dad and a cup of tea made by his sister. However disciplined he might be for his brother, in the inside he is his big brother, fighting over the issue that his mother loves him more than the kid...the kid whom they found in a heap of crap in the roadside. He loves to tease his brother for his dependence on his mother....but deep down in his heart he knows, if only he could be 'the one'. He brings a pack of bindis and bangles for his little sister, while returning from a war, even though he is well aware that he snatched that right from the widows as he killed a many more. For not his mother who gave him birth and made him all that worthy...but for the mother who gave him shelter, earth and identity.
And today when his pyre is about to go in flame...he wishes for just a chance....a chance to re-live his life with his family who waited for him to return. But more than anything else in this world, what he wishes for is a life, not just a mere life of a man but a "soldier" who can sacrifice himself for his motherland....a many more thousand times.
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