If you saw the smile, you might wonder what is so special about it. It's an ordinary smile for you, but it lights up my insides. Just like the Philips tagline goes - sense and simplicity. It makes perfect sense to me and it is really simple to understand. But he doesn't see it that way and one day the smile vanished. Almost in tandem, the flowers started to wilt, the dog dropped its juicy bone and the wireless signals went awry.
We moved out of the house a few months ago and the smile has returned. Let me tell you what i remember about it - it's surprisingly shy, it's quiet, and holds promise of unexpected gentleness, and it is usually silent. Rarely, when i say something truly hilarious, it is louder.
The ironies are not lost on me: there are things I must do to keep the smile in place. But i take comfort in them rather than despair. I cannot return to the house. It's no loss really; the smile is what makes my day.
There is a long road ahead of me and it reminds me of the road that stretches out amidst the fields in the Road to Perdition, as father and son travel to Chicago to build their life again after a great loss. The long, straight road resembles the clean parting on an Indian woman's head. It is like an arrow that pierces through the heart of darkness. If you come looking for me, you'll find me on the same road.
We moved out of the house a few months ago and the smile has returned. Let me tell you what i remember about it - it's surprisingly shy, it's quiet, and holds promise of unexpected gentleness, and it is usually silent. Rarely, when i say something truly hilarious, it is louder.
The ironies are not lost on me: there are things I must do to keep the smile in place. But i take comfort in them rather than despair. I cannot return to the house. It's no loss really; the smile is what makes my day.
There is a long road ahead of me and it reminds me of the road that stretches out amidst the fields in the Road to Perdition, as father and son travel to Chicago to build their life again after a great loss. The long, straight road resembles the clean parting on an Indian woman's head. It is like an arrow that pierces through the heart of darkness. If you come looking for me, you'll find me on the same road.
7 What U Said:
so painfully beautiful! the first read strikes you as plain beautiful. the second read suffuses you with a sweet pain!
V:
There's so much i could say in response to your lovely comment...but it'll have to wait till we meet. :)
For now, only a hug.
someitmes a smile is evoked in a person for no reason. for ex:
whenever i sit in a taxi a smile materializes on my lips!. yeah true.
my mind goes back to a taxi ride where the driver is being told in no uncertain way that he is charging too much for the ride and i'm being told by this person "jd, get down, get down from the car. i 'm not going to pay o much for the short distance we would be going"
i just can't help but smile at this remembrance of all the things!!! :))
jd:
:) Really funny that one.
Hope you possess the Tom Cruise kinda wide smile. That'd be smashing :)
Now I'm keen to watch Road to Perdition! Reading your blog is like being on a treadmill - always playing hard to catch up!
mh
:) we've already met, at a diff level/space i wud think!!
mh:
Rd to Perdition is a film every father and every son should watch. Do watch it if you haven't.
V:
Yeah? Let's meet again soon, then. :)
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