Adios Amigo

The strength of my family has come down by 1 ( only physically ofcourse ) … The most energetic member of the family … The most adorable and the most selfless … Well he is no more with us anymore … The stupid parrot that has seen 3 springs along with us has completed his term … He is gone … And unlike last time , when he flew away , I could not even hope for him to fly back in the next morning … because it ain’t possible … He is not coming back … Gone … Never to return ..

Now I very well know the reason why he was behaving so abnormally since the last few months … Why was he sleeping so much … Why he was no more the energetic sonic he used to be … Why was he not attacking people with the same exuberance he used to display earlier … Why was he so reluctant to leave his cage … He had grown old … 3 years is a very short life span for us … But was certainly long enough for the particular species he belonged to …

I always prayed to God to grant him a natural death … painless … the one everyone wishes for … And that is the very thing he got … But the thing that is really bothering me is that I could not see him for one last time … Neither was he able to see me … I was told that he was continuously repeating my name in his last moments … the thing he never did unless I was physically present or was on a call …First time he was calling me in my absence … Hoping against all the hopes that I would apparate in somehow ..!!!

Last week I decided to blog about him … after 3 long years something struck me that I need to share this story … I did the same … And within a week the hero of the story expired … Yes he was certainly the hero … and I just played a side role …

Everyone’s voice at home was clearly lacking energy when I talked to them … After all they spent 24 hours with him … And must be missing him like hell … Coz he was the one who kept the spirit of the entire place on such a high … I can’t even imagine how the house would be like without that stupid bird shouting at the top of his voice … the entire day long … without any reason … without any motive … just babbling around coz he loved to do the same … waking everyone up as soon as the first ray of Sun kissed the Earth … scolding my mum even if the food is a minute late … eying my sis suspiciously … trying to make out if she was eating something without giving him his proper share … debating with my dad on every possible topic that he could think of … And welcoming me at vacations and bidding a proper goodbye everytime I came and went …

Everytime when papa will be making his way back from his office … He will unintentionally stop at the shop he used to buy him something or the other to eat … and then will realize that its of no use anymore …

Everytime when my mother will be serving everyone food … she will , out of the habit , serve some for him too … in a plate that was much smaller than the other four … and then will realize that the food will only go waste …

And my sister … well she was the one he was closest to … Its going to be real hard for her to learn living without him … She has already been crying for the last two days … When he stopped moving after his final words , she was unwilling to let him go so easily … Hoping that he was sleeping and would suddenly fly away … But it was not to be …

She was always very reluctant to agree whenever we planned a vacation … trying to make one excuse or the other … In reality she was worried about who will take care of him in her absence … Well now once he is gone she has nothing to worry about … and no more digging out excuses … But I know she would have preferred no vacations in his presence to vacations in his absence …

My father would be no more troubled by cleaning his cage and all the mess he caused … But I know he would have preferred to be troubled than this lack of duty … anyday …

My mother would no more be disturbed in sleep by his timeless squawking … But I know she would have always preferred an interrupted sleep to his absence …

And when it comes to me … I remember just one thing when I think about him … That little innocent creature … lying in my palms … looking at me with his tiny eyes … thanking me in his own language … The language I understood so well … The language I am going to miss very very badly now …

Rest in Peace mate … you were an awesome buddy … and I would like to thank the crow who attacked you and arranged our meeting … Destiny they say … Yes you made me believe in destiny … You were certainly the God’s gift to my family …

I can proudly say that he was , is and will be the most energetic and fearless bird I have ever come across …!!! … Dead you might be … but only physically … and we all know that very well .. Don’t we ???? … 🙂 🙂 🙂

More about him – http://www.indiantripper.com/a-parrots-tale-2/