When autumn meets spring !!!

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Hi Friends,

Ever since young women started addressing me as Uncle, I realised that I

had reached the mysterious phase in life called Mid Life. Only solace being that

all my dear friends and batch mates were in the same boat , of course except

Anurag Saxena of my batch ( he still looks a bacchu ). His wife, Mahima has to

cope up with three teen agers in the house.But the truth is that it is not only

mid life , we are very much in middle of mid life. I once read about this period

on Nitin Gagane's wall "  When friends treat you as a family and the family

treats you as a friend "  I re- looked at my life and found that though friends

did treat me as a family , but the family was yet to find a friend in me. 

Until one day, not long back, I was sent Khichdi with cold coffee for my

lunch(normally a packed lunch). Believe me it tasted really good. When I

complimented my wife, Vinita for perfecting her culinary art of Khichdi making,

she bounced back " It is Resoto, an Italian dish and not khichdi " I insisted

that to me it still looked like khichdi in which some cheese has been added. I

knew, she would come out with something like " You Haryanvi men will never come

out of Kheer and Khichdi " But I was surprised when she told me that she was

glad that I liked the preparation. She must have been in good mood I

thought. Couple of days later, one evening she found Akub, our servant

reluctantly sipping mausmi juice and the rightful owner of the juice , that is

me, helping himself with a Patiala peg. So when she faced me , I had this half

cooked sher ready

" Roz meetha sharbat pilati ho, aur kadwi baate karti ho,

Kabhi kadwa sharbat diya karo ,aur meethi baate bhi kar liya karo " !

I definitely expected it to be followed by by some kadwi kadwi baate, but I was

again pleasantly disappointed.Next day when I reached home in the evening, I

found my servant holding a tray with a glass of orange juice and a can of Beer.

I could see a smile on Vinita's face as I reached for the orange juice.

Has the family started treating me as a friend ??

Not bad !!!

Gajendra Yadav