MUMBAI CHAPTER ENDS!!!!

Time flies!!! Someone so truly said. I wish it could just Hover!!! It seems like a decade, when I was so frantically praying in my small corimac structured cabin in Congo of getting posted to the dream city …Mumbai… newly married …already posted to Mumbai before but cancelled due to the UN mission, nothing could have worked out for me better than me posted to the SEA EAGLES. Many said ..n I mean many….. what will do there ?? not much flying there boy .. koi flying nahi milegi .. time pass karte hai etc etc..at ur seniority u shud be sitting in Thoise doin air maint in the glacier etc etc…..i had no answer .. I just knew I had to be there … actually today if I introspect it didn’t matter where I was heading .. as long as she was along with me and yesss happy to be with me !!!.. which meant she works!!! And so the train was stopping only at Mumbai.. so what did this place teach me .. well I have not many flying stories to tell you or pen down ..though apparently I got awarded by the Chief for an flying task which apparently again had never been carried out by the airforce ever .. how wud they??? Yahaan pe toh flying hi nahin hai ..remember !!!!.. so not much of professional enrichment ..n yes not to mention the unsuccessful run of becoming an instructor ..maybe later …. I would begin by saying which im sure is one of the most cheesy or rather cheesiest line you have ever heard ..i became a HUSBAND here rather learnt to become one… n yes in course of time a DAD … man that is one long journey covered in really short time ..isnt it …. Yess from a bachelor…a husband ..n ultimately dad… I learnt to respect someone else other than me… I never thought I would achieve that rather I guess none of us in the forces ever grow out of ourselves ..we are so contended with being ourselves ..our careers ..our not so .. but…we think so flamboyant lifestyles..our UNIT ..our postings ..n the endless list s of OURS… I definitely started respecting the term OUR which didn’t mean… forcefully encompassing my wife to be a part of the airforce ………but about lives of two people …jobs of two people..careers of two people ..the very fact that SHE is an individual with HER aspirations and HER goals and it has nothing to do with me or my goals..but yes ..definitely respect them . The fact that she doesn’t live with me ..that WE live together … the fact that there is no secret of becoming a good husband but if you respect her for SHE being an thinking .. and ambitious human being ..more or else things are in place.. definitely you wont have her serving you tea when you get back from work ..who does that anyway ..(jus wanted to paint a stereotypical picture of a good Indian wife) ..well u wanted that just get a damn maid man ..why marry!!!! A fact that if you expect her to attend your stupid service parties and stand with a damn cold drink for 2 hours you better not complain when she reaches late from office…. N now as a DAD..the process of becoming one has truly made me realize how lucky I am to be born as a male… no laughing matter but it has been the most enriching and evolving process for me ..the fact that a life is being created and I am responsible for that life to be nurtured on this planet is definitely if nothing unique.!!!! The fact that one shriek ..one cry ..one cough makes or breaks my day ..one smile ..makes me wait for an hour ..is something unique… Not deliberating further as I will surely record his growing years in all forms possible…this chapter has been one unforgettable one !!!! cheers!!!!