The Sound Of Boots

9.47 PM, 12 Nov 2011

After having a typicalIndian dinner I was chilling in the couch. My mom noticed I didn't wash my hands properly after eating. She took me with her to the wash basin. Yea I needed my mom's help even for this small task. Want to know the reason?

Hello, My name is Akshay an 11-year-old boy from Chennai. Every one of you knew that a newborn after getting separated from the mother usually cries. But I'm a bit special. I made my mom, dad and some of the relatives gathered there cry along with me. Want to know the reason?

Ok, I can see your eagerness. Oops..... Sorry I can feel your eagerness.

Yes. I'm blind by birth. No sympathies, please! My sad life didn't have a full stop but it has a comma.

Let me introduce my parents. My mom Latha, a homemaker and my father Vijaykumar, a soldier doing his service for the nation.

Introducing my father as a soldier gave me a proud feeling! Yea...... Such a proud feeling!

13th November is my birthday. Yea roughly 2 hours remaining. I should be happy by this time because my dad said he is gonna return today. But I'm not happy.

Yea I'm not happy because my father came two days before. You might be confused, right?
I remember the sound that comes from my father's boots while he returns home. But two days before sound came from several boots but not from my father's boots!

But he was inside a box wrapped with the Indian Flag. That was the first time people around me are crying and the reason is not me!

Yours
@hemanthhpm
PEACE!