Second Innings...

Its pretty inappropriate to pen a post in this blog today because practically I am no longer a Bangalorean.
But the wonderful few years spent in Bangalore since Sep 07, which instigated millions of beautiful thoughts in my brain  and had inspired me to share many of them through these posts,still deserves a worthy goodbye.Therefore I wish to dedicate this post to the City of Gardens,to Bangalore,where I had scored a wonderful first innings of my work life!
Nothing could really describe the state of mind I came with to Kolkata Airport on 30th of March. I was unable to decipher my own thoughts. I felt a strange longing for Bangalore. The Bengal air seemed so queer to me that I couldn't relate to the surroundings even when I had spent the initial 20 long years of my life here. A strong feeling of loneliness and forlornness was stifling me beyond imagination.The sight of the Bengali crowd around me could draw no fellow feeling from me that day.It shouldn't have been so since I had reached the land of my near ones, which was my dream since I had left home 3 years earlier.Yet at that very moment I terribly missed Bangalore, and all of my friends there.
Soon some bright smiling faces came towards me and welcomed me with a warm hug.Those were the faces I had longed to see and those were the people whom I wanted to be near me always and now I had reached my goal.I felt so happy seeing them.God gave me what I wanted....what I desired and what I had struggled for in the past few months. And here I was, being this selfish girl who didn't know how to be grateful to Him, to the one who had bestowed such a grace upon me.The strange feeling somewhat mitigated to a small extent after registering the above fact in my mind.
Nevertheless , the unsettling feeling was evaporating and I started to regain my composure.The city of joy was slowly making its energetic vibes seep in my veins. And as I rested my head in the back seat of the famous yellow- black Kolkata taxi, I could see a friendly smile of the city spread across the horizon ahead , welcoming me to complete my second innings here and to be one of its people who loved it immensely and adored to be a part of it!!