Click!

This year’s birthday got me a digital camera…one of my long cherished dreams came true! I love capturing moments and keeping them alive forever…and I did. I’ve captured some beautiful frames in time which are going to live forever through those photographs. But today, as I look through those snapshots… I don’t know why they took me back instead to some moments, which I could not capture in my camera. But some invisible photographer opened up a slideshow.  

Your excited faces as you waited for my reaction to the surprise you had put together for me… I know I disappoint you every year. But that doesn’t mean that your efforts don’t mean anything to me. You’ve spoilt me….and you know it. …and well, I guess I am just trying to tell you that I am lucky to have you in my life. And if you’re planning to not turn up next year to surprise me, it will hurt. But don’t expect me to show it. I won’t…

I couldn’t photograph the smile on your face when you were able to send me something through your friends even though you were far away…I missed you…but you made your presence felt…like always…you’re always there on my birthday… I missed capturing the sadness In your eyes as I cut the cake without you…the camera would not be able to capture how much you were missed…or how much you missed me...

When you suddenly realise its been 26 years…since the first time you saw me, I missed capturing that sudden going back in time…the reflection of the past in your eyes…

When you climbed up the stairs to overcome a chasm built up by time…I wouldn’t be able to hold the expression in your eyes in one frame…when you didn’t let my birthday be incomplete…I couldn’t capture your triumph with a click…

What I did capture were memories…and they are stored forever…what I did capture were smiles that warmed my heart…what I did capture was love…that overflowed…and I never needed a camera for that… your eyes that live through me, are enough…